Hey all.
I'd like to introduce to you, Tesla: My answer to the growing need for proper ingame front ends for sysmodules.

What is this?

• Tesla consists of three individual parts. nx-ovlloader, the Tesla menu and libtesla.
  • nx-ovlloader is basically nx-hbloader ported to run as a sysmodule. It runs in the background and loads overlay NROs (.ovl files) given to it.
  • Tesla Menu is the equivalent to the hbmenu. It's the initial thing loaded by nx-ovlloader and acts as a hub for you to select all other overlays.
  • libtesla is where it becomes interesting for developers. It's an easy to use library that handles layer creation, UI drawing and all the overlay UX. It makes it very easy to create a new overlay for anything
• A frontend for sysmodules that before required either a homebrew or a config file to change settings or used sounds or the LED to give the user feedback.

What is this not?

• A tool that lets you create overlays that are always visible. Overlays can get unloaded way to easily for this.
• An excuse to port absolutely everything to a overlay. Nobody's going to need a title manager overlay. If you consider making a overlay, keep it simple. You don't have a whole lot of memory to work with.

How do I use this?

First of all, download the latest release of nx-ovlloader and the Tesla Menu from the GitHub Release page and extract it onto your SD card.
After a reboot, hold down L and DPad Down and push on the right joy stick to bring up Tesla at any time. Navigation works as you imagine it.
Similar to normal homebrews, you place your .ovl files in the /switch/.overlays folder on your SD card.


Screenshots

Spoiler: Screenshots

Notice

Make sure to use the latest Atmosphere release when trying this as older versions ( as the one SX OS uses too ) probably won't have enough memory available for this to run. Overlays do take a lot of space so nx-ovlloader reserves 6MB. 2MB for framebuffers and around 4MB for overlay developers to use in their overlays.


GitHub

nx-ovlloader: https://github.com/WerWolv/nx-ovlloader
Tesla Menu: https://github.com/WerWolv/Tesla-Menu


For Developers

libtesla: https://github.com/WerWolv/libtesla
Tesla build template: https://github.com/WerWolv/Tesla-Template


Download

nx-ovlloader: https://github.com/WerWolv/nx-ovlloader/releases/latest
Tesla-Menu: https://github.com/WerWolv/Tesla-Menu/releases/latest
EdiZon Overlay: http://werwolv.net/downloads/EdiZonOverlay.zip ( As a little preview for what this is capable of and what EdiZon 4.0.0 will have even more of soon )

Special thank especially to averne without him, this would not have been possible!


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Thanks a lot and have fun using and extending it

 

[BaamAlex]

just like turning it fully off and booting again via hekate into emummc? just trying to pinpoint the fix

Yeah. I turned it completely off and restarted it via hekate payload.

 

[Lunatics]

Hey guys, out of no where today I started having issues after shutting my switch down and putting my SD card into my PC to back some stuff up. Went to reboot my switch and now atmosphere is crashing on launch saying 420000000007E51A is the reason. I have deleted this folder from contents and atmosphere does boot, however then I cannot use any overlays. I have tried redownloading ovlloader and copying it over to my microsd again and still crashes on boot, any idea what is going on?

Emunand is on 14.0 and atmosphere is on latest version. This was working perfectly fine forever up until I rebooted my switch today.

 

[hippy dave]

Hey guys, out of no where today I started having issues after shutting my switch down and putting my SD card into my PC to back some stuff up. Went to reboot my switch and now atmosphere is crashing on launch saying 420000000007E51A is the reason. I have deleted this folder from contents and atmosphere does boot, however then I cannot use any overlays. I have tried redownloading ovlloader and copying it over to my microsd again and still crashes on boot, any idea what is going on?

Emunand is on 14.0 and atmosphere is on latest version. This was working perfectly fine forever up until I rebooted my switch today.

Run a disk scan/repair on the SD card?

 

[impeeza]

Reinstall Atmosphère, hekate and sigpatches. However seems a corrupted data

 

[TomSwitch]

With a blank SD unzip these into the root
https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere/releases/latest
https://github.com/WerWolv/Tesla-Menu/releases/tag/v1.2.0
https://github.com/WerWolv/nx-ovlloader/releases/tag/v1.0.6
inject fusee
Everything should now works perfectly or you may have problems with your hardware

If you want to preserve the contents on your sd just rename atmosphere and switch directory to something like atmosphere1 and switch1, unzip the three above into the root and inject fusee ( to avoid problem caused by your hekate setup )

 

[Lunatics]

I renamed these folders and started from scratch and seem to have it back up and running and slowly moved overlays over until they were all back. I believe the issue was I had an out of date status monitor overlay, however I am not sure how that got put on there because everything was working perfectly fine prior to shutting my switch down so I am not sure if I accidentally copied that over at some point but the status monitor overlay was from 2020 that I found in my switch folder. I deleted this as well as a couple other old overlays I don't use anymore and it seems to be back up and was able to move all my other contents back over. Just weird how this happened completely out of no where, I don't believe I changed or copied anything else over to the switch but it seems to be working again now which is all that matters.

 

[achelos]

For those having problems with a crashing overlay (and where everything else just works like Emuiibo, QuickNTP, etc) you can use this fork: https://github.com/proferabg/EdiZon-Overlay/releases/tag/v1.0.3 - works for HOS 15+

 

[MahoganyRaichu]

So, if I want to use cheat codes, what do I need to install? I am a bit confused=(

 

[simsimsim]

So, if I want to use cheat codes, what do I need to install? I am a bit confused=(

you can install homebrew apps like edizon,

 

[impeeza]

So, if I want to use cheat codes, what do I need to install? I am a bit confused=(

use the search function at top of page, yo will find

https://gbatemp.net/threads/cheat-codes-ams-and-sx-os-add-and-request.520293/

or you can go to https://gbatemp.net/threads/switch-noob-paradise-ask-questions-here.488277/unread and ask for help.

There is also a complete guide about cheats on atmosphère:
https://rentry.org/ManageCheats

 

[TomSwitch]

So, if I want to use cheat codes, what do I need to install? I am a bit confused=(

Minimally you only need atmosphere and the cheat file and a toggle file to select the cheats

 

[Thorhax]

For those having problems with a crashing overlay (and where everything else just works like Emuiibo, QuickNTP, etc) you can use this fork: https://github.com/proferabg/EdiZon-Overlay/releases/tag/v1.0.3 - works for HOS 15+

omg thank you,

 

[achelos]

omg thank you,

No biggie, I went through some forks and this one worked IDK if it'll work with 16.0.0

 

[masagrator]

No biggie, I went through some forks and this one worked IDK if it'll work with 16.0.0

It won't. All overlays require update after this PR is merged.

https://github.com/WerWolv/libtesla/pull/61

 

[binkinator]

https://github.com/proferabg/EdiZon-Overlay/issues/8



these things take time…just wait.

 

[achelos]

https://github.com/proferabg/EdiZon-Overlay/issues/8

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these things take time…just wait.

Well.... A fork of a fork:

https://github.com/ELY3M/EdiZon-Overlay/releases/tag/2 One could always try

 

[masagrator]

Well.... A fork of a fork:

https://github.com/ELY3M/EdiZon-Overlay/releases/tag/2 One could always try

This does not work on FW older than 16.0.0 worth to point out

 

[SirKira001]

Many overlays don't work in 16.0.0, are we getting updates anytime soon?

 

[linuxares]

Many overlays don't work in 16.0.0, are we getting updates anytime soon?

Ask the overlay creators.

 

[JeepX87]

Many overlays don't work in 16.0.0, are we getting updates anytime soon?

@ELY_M fixed it - https://github.com/ELY3M/EdiZon-Overlay/releases/tag/2