TX Announces SX OS v2.2 BETA with Docked USB Drive Support

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

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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! :)

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The USB 3 port actually performs somewhat faster, but still slow compared to MicroSD cards. Here's a video showing the comparisons


it's not even enabled for usb3, apparently, though they may activate as such (soon?) in an update (after they run out of ways to make things more stable?)
 

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It's not working for me at all. I gotta beta sx os 2.2 and 5.1.1 fw switch. Tried several various USB flash drives/HDDs none of them worked. One of HDD even don't have enough power to turn on lol. Others get scanned but nothing new appears on sx menu. Halp plz
 

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So it looks like sx os 2.2 BETA breaks usb Ethernet. Not a big deal as I can boot into a different CFW but maybe @garyopa can pass the word on.

Dz is super useful with Ethernet vs wifi!
 

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It's not working for me at all. I gotta beta sx os 2.2 and 5.1.1 fw switch. Tried several various USB flash drives/HDDs none of them worked. One of HDD even don't have enough power to turn on lol. Others get scanned but nothing new appears on sx menu. Halp plz
make sure your drive is at most 2tb, exfat with MBR
 

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What folder structure is everyone using for this?
I tried the /sxos/xci/ folder and it did not work for USB (works for microSD), but when I put the XCI files in the root it works fine.
 

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just puchased a hdd enclosure (3.5") and as luck so has it i have a spare 500GB HDD (3.5") sorry if this is a little off topic but what folder do I put the cheats in that others made
 

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So it looks like sx os 2.2 BETA breaks usb Ethernet. Not a big deal as I can boot into a different CFW but maybe @garyopa can pass the word on.

Dz is super useful with Ethernet vs wifi!

I have informed the team with a list of about 7 bugs in 2.2 beta and about same amount of popular requests to improve hdd support.

No eta on next release. Right now the focus is to make a stable release out of 2.2 with the bugs fixed and release a new beta with minor improvements and maybe new features.

Recently the team been doing a weekly Sunday/monday release but i have no clue or advance knowledge if this schedule will stay like this.

Anyhow i am looking forward to seeing 2.21 stable and a 2.3 beta when they are ready to roll them out.
 

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HDD and Usb drive confirmed work perfecly via hdmi adapter, and output to TV works like a charm.

Wake up from sleep while running a game also works just fine.

The best combo for handheld mode.

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This is way more useful to me than I thought... I keep my console completely offline and would constantly take the sdcard out to add titles... now I can just plug any USB stick in with my OTG adapter and install any NSP I want. Sure I can play XCIs off of sticks too but this will definitely save time and wear n' tear on the sdcard and slot! THANKS TX!
 
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