uLaunch

uLaunch is a custom, open-source Nintendo Switch HOME menu replacement/reimplementation!

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This isn't some kind of HOME menu extension, injection, patch, etc.: uLaunch is an entire reimplementation (of key components), 100% open-source!

• For more detailed information, check uLaunch's GitHub repository: https://github.com/XorTroll/uLaunch​

• Releases: https://github.com/XorTroll/uLaunch/releases/latest​

Let uLaunch be the HOME menu Nintendo never bothered to make!

 

[Chocola]

To learn some C I made a simple reboot_to_payload mod which allows easy switching between qlaunch and uLaunch. It takes into account whether you have a qlaunch theme installed.

One time fiddling with folders is needed: Place 'SdOut/titles/010100000000001000/exefs.nsp' into '/atmosphere/titles/0100000000001000ulaunch/' The three remaining folders from '/SdOut/titles' should go into '/atmosphere/titles' for this app to work.
It does not check if uLaunch is actually installed and running, so if you create xxx1000ulaunch, and run the app under uLaunch you would be switching between two uLaunches. I'll fix it later since it took me a good portion of the day to create (don't judge pls).

I don't feel like the code is worth sharing. Under GPLv2 I'm required to provide it to anyone who asks, hereby I promise to do so. I will make a repo for it later if I'll find motivation to improve it. I would like to make an option to update uLaunch to nigthly builds, but it would take me some time, probably.

Here's the link: qulauncher 0.0.1 https://www.dropbox.com/s/a2f0jcaoyhtup39/qulauncher.nro?dl=1

I recommend you use Github to host and share your code and your releases, isn't personal, the most people don't trust on homebrew apps without review the code first.

As adition, if you want to learn, develop a open source application are a good thing, you gona get issue reports and pull request to learn from that.

Don't worry about the code, a lot of big projects start from a tidy and poor code, one of the most gracefull things are see how the project evolve into better with time and contributions from others.

 

[Nudu]

how to uninstall it? i like it but the original is better for me (no offense)

 

[ZachyCatGames]

how to uninstall it? i like it but the original is better for me (no offense)

Delete /<CFW’s folder>/titles/0100000000001000

Edit: you also need to delete 010000000000100B, 0100000000001001, and 01008BB00013C000. Forgot that they also needed to be removed lol.

 

[XorTroll]

Delete /<CFW’s folder>/titles/0100000000001000

No. It's explained in the GitHub wiki, it's not as simple as that (plus not exactly that)

 

[DarkValkirion]

@XorTroll Could you add an option to resize the menu icons?

 

[XorTroll]

uLaunch v0.2 is out, featuring a new quick menu, more settings, a full rewrite of the PC tool, controller and album support and more!
Check it out: https://github.com/XorTroll/uLaunch/releases/tag/0.2 (the changelog is pretty big for what I expected to add in a second release)

On another topic, I reorganized all the documentation of the project (FAQ, themeing, forwarding...) in GitHub's uLaunch wiki: https://github.com/XorTroll/uLaunch/wiki

There are still bugs to fix and features to implement tho, which will be eventually worked on (https://github.com/XorTroll/uLaunch/wiki/Functionality#Unimplemented-stuff)

 

[hippy dave]

Nice to hear album etc are now supported, sounds like it's ready for me to try it out, when I have the chance to get back to fucking with my Switch. Keep up the nice work!

 

[XorTroll]

@XorTroll Could you add an option to resize the menu icons?

If you mean the title icons in the main menu, then I guess I might add that soon, but would require some important UI logic changes.
Otherwise, all the other menu icons are customizable, and except a few ones whose size is adjusted on code, you can replace them with icons as big as you want

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On another topic, the advantage of uLaunch's screen capture is that it captures literally EVERYTHING (excluding the overlay menu and power menu), proof:

 

[squalow]

Is the delay when you go from menu to game and vice versa still present ? this is the thing that made me go back to Qlaunch ( and the missing controller option which is not missing anymore)

 

[jammybudga777]

the delay is still there. has anyone use Ulaunchers nro forwarder feature? i get an image to show on the home menu but it crashes. just want to no how everyone else's experience is with it

 

[justanotheranon]

Will you be able to access your savefiles like you could on Horizon?
uLaunch seems to lack this feature.

 

[pcwizard7]

If this is the case then it's because ulanch takes over the eshop applet. From sxos 2.9.2 tx added a protection to redirect the eshop to the mentioned page (please disable stealth mode) thus preventing ulanch from taking it over. Since sxos starts always in stealth mode, ulanch is broken on latest sx version. And since the "open" scene is against sxos, for its good reasons, it's kinda unlikely that we will ever see a workaround for this problem, if not from tx themselves.

has anyone found a workaround for sxos since it accesses the eshop applet auto?

 

[CatmanFan]

the delay is still there. has anyone use Ulaunchers nro forwarder feature? i get an image to show on the home menu but it crashes. just want to no how everyone else's experience is with it

Same for me, I tried this with RetroArch forwarders created using uViewer

 

[jammybudga777]

Same for me, I tried this with RetroArch forwarders created using uViewer

Got it working by turning on flog in the setting and run as application

 

[XorTroll]

Got it working by turning on flog in the setting and run as application

Most Retroarch forwarders do need application mode for memory reasons

 

[goncalodoom]

Is there a temperature monitor for the processor and battery?

 

[axiomjunglist]

If you don't enable flog can uLaunch be used online with little risk? As I understand it, this appears to be the only thing that would cause an anomaly in the telemetry reporting. Unless there's something else that would?

 

[Chocola]

If you don't enable flog can uLaunch be used online with little risk? As I understand it, this appears to be the only thing that would cause an anomaly in the telemetry reporting. Unless there's something else that would?

If you don't like to take risk, you never should go online with CFW.

Flog it's a stubbed title that can't be launched anymore and they know, if you use flog to launch uLaunch and they see that you run flog on 9.0.1 it's a sure ban.

 

[JohnathanMonkey]

I absolutely love this, but for some reason, any new games I install to my NAND, crash after loading. Everything on my SD card is fine though. I removed ulaunch, and my NAND games work fine. Any idea why this happens? Thank you to everyone who had a hand in making this!

EDIT: I believe I have narrowed the issue down to the game trying to look for a save file? Some games will attempt to load, while other crash after the Switch logo.

 

[jammybudga777]

I absolutely love this, but for some reason, any new games I install to my NAND, crash after loading. Everything on my SD card is fine though. I removed ulaunch, and my NAND games work fine. Any idea why this happens? Thank you to everyone who had a hand in making this!

EDIT: I believe I have narrowed the issue down to the game trying to look for a save file? Some games will attempt to load, while other crash after the Switch logo.

why would it be because of a save file? surely the games installed then creates a save.