It's only been a week since Team-Xecuter made the big announcement of SX OS v2.1 with their 'cheat engine'

And now they are back and on a roll with them adding 'Docked USB Drive Support' and many other nice improvements to their 'cheat engine' and a few bug fixes!

How do you do, dear SX OS users?

Today we are back once again with a much anticipated new feature as well as various improvements to existing functionality for SX OS. While this is still labelled as BETA we've had some good success with it internally, we're looking forward to your feedback.

Lets jump into the list of changes!

• Docked USB drive support!

Yes. You read it right. You can now plug a USB mass storage device into your switch' dock and load XCI or install NSP content from there directly. No longer are you limited by the size of your microSD card when playing the switch from the comfort of your couch, but you can now enjoy TERABYTES of content by using external harddisks and such! The filesystem on the drive needs to be either FAT32 or exFAT, and the directories that are being scanned for content are equal to the ones you'd use on the microSD card.

• Updates to the cheat system
  • More accurate progress indication during cheat search
    People were reporting "freezes" during cheat searches, often times these were just due to impatience and a suboptimal UI from our end. The progress bars are more honest and update more frequently now!
  • Cheat search for exact value requires no initial dump anymore
    For 'exact value' searches a big initial dump file on your microSD is not needed, and since this is often the way people start a cheat search we decided to streamline the cheat finder process a bit. You are now prompted with a question whether you want to start an exact value search or arbitrary value search, in case of the former the process will be much faster.
  • Automatically apply/disable cheats upon toggle
    The interface for "applying" the cheats was a bit counterintuitive, you now no longer have to press the plus (+) button in order to apply cheats. They are automatically applied/disabled once you toggle them. Disabling cheats now properly works as well, so there's no need for having a dummy cheat any more to work around that limitation.
  • Ability to add cheats using the UI
    Identifying memory locations for cheats using just the console is nice, but previously there was no way of adding an actual cheat-code for a location you found to the cheat code library. This has been addressed, and there is now an interface for doing this directly from our menu.
• Show homebrew NSP icons in TX menu
  Some homebrew NSP titles were not displaying their icons properly. This has been investigated and fixed.
• Fix error 2345-0021 when in docked mode opening TX menu
  People who play/cheat in docked mode will like this fix. The frequent crashes that happened when opening the TX menu in docked mode are now a thing of the past!

That's it folks. Enjoy this BETA and let us know what you think. We have more tricks up our sleeves, more rabbits in our tophats. And we only have one gear: FORWARD.

--< Team-Xecuter - Rocking the Switch in 2018 and beyond! >--​

Enjoy!

Source: MaxConsole

 

[subcon959]

It's not ambiguous, it clearly says "install NSP content from there".. not to there.

 

[MeowMeowMeow]

Jesus christ they really are going dicks out with stealing the work from other people

Jesus christ people really need to copy paste same whiny comment with every SX update.

 

[Ty_]

Curious if this only works while docked or if you can also use a USB A to C converter in handheld

 

[scroeffie]

but does the sx os firmware stay on the sd card or do we put it on the external hdd ?
and wat is the max sixe 2tb ? can we use usb 3.0 because dock has usb3.0 port

 

[VashTS]

We need network loading of XCI, c'mon TX step it up baby.

Also does this mean you can have XCI on SD AND on USB at the same time?? Im guessing it will scan both places for XCI and it shouldn't conflict

 

[NANASHI89]

So, I can now load XCIs from an external hard drive? No installing?

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[leonmagnus99]

awesome

 

[Localhorst86]

It's not ambiguous, it clearly says "install NSP content from there".. not to there.

I could swear it used to say "Load XCI and Nsp content from USB". But the OP doesn't have any indication that it was edited later, so maybe I just skipped reading the "install" remark.

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[guitarheroknight]

Tested it, you can only install NSP from your USB/HDD to your internal memory or SD card. The only downside is that installing NSP games seem a tad bit slower than from installing them from the SD card. The XCI loading works flawlessly though.

 

[ioann1s]

in a next version we should get file manager support to move files between sd card and usb drive

 

[Akira]

So, I can now load XCIs from an external hard drive? No installing?

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XCI doesnt need to be installed from the first place. Maybe you are referring to nsp

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Tested it, you can only install NSP from your USB/HDD to your internal memory or SD card. The only downside is that installing NSP games seem a tad bit slower than from installing them from the SD card. The XCI loading works flawlessly though.

So updates and dlc will still be on sd card while you run the base game as xci in hdd?

 

[mrdude]

Time for a new SSD then - damn you TX - making me spend even more money! :-) Not an SSD for speed - but it's cheaper and quieter to run, and can be turned off without causing damage.

 

[snails1221]

but does the sx os firmware stay on the sd card or do we put it on the external hdd ?
and wat is the max sixe 2tb ? can we use usb 3.0 because dock has usb3.0 port

I would assume that the firmware still needs to be on the SD card

 

[scroeffie]

hdd size max ? does the firmware be on the sd card or external hdd

 

[guitarheroknight]

XCI doesnt need to be installed from the first place. Maybe you are referring to nsp

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So updates and dlc will still be on sd card while you run the base game as xci in hdd?

I would assume so since you can't really install any NSP files to your USB only load xci from it.

 

[sj33]

I could swear it used to say "Load XCI and Nsp content from USB". But the OP doesn't have any indication that it was edited later, so maybe I just skipped reading the "install" remark.

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The awkward wording is intentional. You can’t install to USB because SciresM’s code doesn’t make the USB be detected as a system device in Horizon. Presumably TX’s own loader can access it for xci loading though.

In theory, this means that any homebrew should be able to access external drives if coded to do so.

 

[MasterJ360]

Yeeeeeees! now we are in there boys! *Pulls out a 3TB WD external*

 

[scroeffie]

maxx hdd size support ???

 

[leonmagnus99]

up next please add Custom theme support <3

 

[SpaceJump]

Tested it, you can only install NSP from your USB/HDD to your internal memory or SD card. The only downside is that installing NSP games seem a tad bit slower than from installing them from the SD card. The XCI loading works flawlessly though.

I can't get either to show up from USB formatted to exFat. No XCI in the rom menu, no NSP in the Installer. XCIs are in usb:sxos/games and NSPs in usb:sxos/nsp. Does it matter which USB port of the dock is used? What are your steps?

Edit: In the TX menu it shows SX OS V2.2, but no "beta". Could it be that I'm not in the beta firmware?