Homebrew RELEASE Switch Homebrew Appstore

[The Afroman]

Anone get App Store working on SX OS 1.2?

 

[SodaSoba]

Certain titles seem to be out of date?
I was able to download and use the nes emulator but doom/postal fail to load anything after installing.

I'm dumb, ignore that

 

[iMythD]

Are you writing the files using a mac? I had a similar issue when writing the sdcard files with my mac. It worked when I switched to PC. This was on exFAT.

Yeah definitely a mac issue.. I opened up the SD card in windows and unchecked "prepare these files for archiving" as been suggested in other places and it works a charm.

 

[crazyxelite]

How to do this? I always have my switch in airplane mode. Do I need to set up a DNS?

 

[sirAnger]

1. install the homebrew appstore
2. connect to the internet (no special connections required)
3. download some homebrew
4. done!

 

[sonicdacrack]

Is there a way to blockk all nintendo requests to prevent banning and still use the online homebrew appstore?

 

[vgmoose]

We now have an update-checker that runs two times a day so that we can find out when Github homebrew apps from the store are out of date. I'm also in the process of going through every single app on 5.1 and documenting how they work and what the caveats of them are: https://github.com/vgmoose/appstorenx/wiki/Switchbru-Repo . This is taking a while though and I'm only about 1/3 of the way through.

I want to surface this info in the hb app store app too, so that it's easier to tell in-the-app why an app is behaving the way it is. And I intend to remove any apps from the main repo that don't work or crash on 5.1 out of the box.

And also to address this question that I also see being asked a lot:

I don't get why the Homebrew store doesn't just pull the latest release from github/gitlab directly.

The number one reason this can't be done is because developers are inconsistent with how releases are uploaded, for instance some just throw the NRO on there, sometimes there are extra folders, some need external files, some are zipped, rar'd, or 7-zip'd. And this is fair, I can't expect them to upload it in the exact format required by the app store (all files in a zip relative to the root of the SD).

If someone wants to try that approach, they can either do it on their own or can even fork the app store client and have it talk to Github. I prefer having the repos organized by a central source though (and multiple repos allow for decentralization anyway).

 

[p0tent]

Crashes way too much for me to use.

 

[vgmoose]

Crashes way too much for me to use.

Got any more info on this? At which point does it crash?

 

[Hondyn]

Crashes way too much for me to use.

Same here. Could use it before though. It crashes for me when I try and open it. Tried on sx os 1.4 and hetake, none of them worked for me

 

[vgmoose]

@p0tent and @Hondyn might be too late for this, but would you be able to upload the contents of your sd:/switch/appstore folder?

It crashes right away or does the progress bar move before crashing? Also what's the SD card formatted as? Thanks in advanced.

 

[Apoplexis]

Crashing for me on Switch 4.1.0 with ReiNX 4.0.1.
Progress bar doesn't move.
Internet is set up with blocked DNS for Nintendo.

 

[RitchieRitchie]

Hi,

Total noob here. Setting up files to use when my sx os arrives. What files from the extracted rar do i put in my 'switch' folder?

 

[pwsincd]

you need SD://switch/appstore/<all files and folders within appstore folder here>

 

[RitchieRitchie]

Thanks!

 

[SH3RLOCK]

@pwsincd Can you add Minesweeper NX? https://github.com/sh3rlock97/MinesweeperNX

 

[pwsincd]

sure care to add a release ?

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[lettuce]

Havent used the appstore for a while, just tried it now and the app isnt loading has the blue bar but just loads to about 5% and stops, any ideas?

 

[pwsincd]

check your connection

 

[Vaatu]

I am also getting an error when trying to use the app store, I have tried changing the appstore.nro too but to only receive the same scenario, 25% load... slows down then goes to 75% and crashes to give me this screen.