Homebrew Homebrew app NTON - Yet another NRO to NSP forwarder for v12.0.0+

[PRAGMA]

I've created a new Python script for creating Homebrew Forwarders named NTON (short for NRO to NSP), I like to pronounce it as Enton.

Please check it out and report back: https://github.com/rlaphoenix/nton
I plan to work on this a lot more, with a GUI potentially planned.

• Every release will have a pre-made NSP for the Homebrew Menu and AIO-Switch-Updater for the latest version at the time. The NRO path is expected to be whatever is the default/typical installation from the original project.
• The exefs files can be swapped out with other forwarding ROMs that use the same romfs file structure. NTON uses the exefs provided by @Meliodas2255 but you could swap it out for the originals by @mpham.
• Nro2Nsp is different. It doesn't use any romfs structure at all from what I can tell and instead it hardcodes the path in main.c before compiling.

 

[peteruk]

Very nice work, thank you!

 

[PRAGMA]

Direct RetroArch Game forwarders are now supported as of v1.1.0. (P.S., the project has basically completely changed since I made this post. It's no longer a CMD batch refactor, its now an entirely new Python project.)

 

[Meliodas2255]

This is shaping to be a fantastic tool, and a great contribution to open source switch community. Its process is well documented and sustainable. I like it more than my personal script for building forwarders, it's that much powerful due to its python driven nature. Thank you for the tool.

 

[Meliodas2255]

Is there a way to force the creation of a new control.ncap. there are some nros with invalid control.ncaps and cancels the process of making the forwarder such as DBI.nro an alternative could be creating a new argument option that would allow the skip of the ncap extract and would go straight into creating a new control.ncap

 

[PRAGMA]

Is there a way to force the creation of a new control.ncap. there are some nros with invalid control.ncaps and cancels the process of making the forwarder such as DBI.nro an alternative could be creating a new argument option that would allow the skip of the ncap extract and would go straight into creating a new control.ncap

Yes, I saw you made a GitHub issue which I do prefer for people talking about problems or enhancements. I have given some info on there, https://github.com/rlaphoenix/nton/issues/4

Edit: Not really necessary thanks to an update to nstool. So thanks to the creator of that too

 

[PRAGMA]

Looking for testers on Firmware versions older than 12.0.0 to confirm if NTON's forwarder ROM (by @Meliodas2255) works on all firmware or only v12.0.0+.

See: https://github.com/rlaphoenix/nton/issues/7

 

[jcall97]

I haven't been able to get either a Retroarch or a Rom forward nsp to run on my switch after building with NTON and installing with DBI. I keep getting "The software was closed because an error occured". I have the latest sigpatches installed, and I have my prod.keys updated, so I'm not sure what else could be causing this issue.

 

[tatundria]

Is there any chance to get a GUI for this app?