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!


Obligatory Donation links

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Patreon https://www.patreon.com/werwolv


Thanks a lot and have fun using and extending it

 

[OrGoN3]

Yes sir

Sorry one last question. For the libtesla used, did you revert masa's fix? Or did you just compile it with the latest libnx?

 

[impeeza]

Sorry one last question. For the libtesla used, did you revert masa's fix? Or did you just compile it with the latest libnx?

I did use Libnx SwitchBrew (https://github.com/switchbrew/libnx) commit v4.3.0-d219884b.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/tesla-the-nintendo-switch-overlay-menu.557362/post-10121629

 

[OrGoN3]

I did use Libnx SwitchBrew (https://github.com/switchbrew/libnx) commit v4.3.0-d219884b.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/tesla-the-nintendo-switch-overlay-menu.557362/post-10121629

Yeah. Your updates include the libnx fix, but the libtesla you're using also has the workaround still enabled. You should've used a libtesla one commit prior, or the new one that wasn't out when you made them. Oh well. Ty still!

 

[impeeza]

Yeah. Your updates include the libnx fix, but the libtesla you're using also has the workaround still enabled. You should've used a libtesla one commit prior, or the new one that wasn't out when you made them. Oh well. Ty still!

Yes sir. When back from travel will make anew batch

 

[OrGoN3]

Yes sir. When back from travel will make anew batch

Safe adventures!!!!! ❤️

 

[josete2k]

Latest commit of emuiibo

https://www.mediafire.com/file/laejua0ubxiuygz/SdOut.rar/file

It includes tesla menu too

 

[[Truth]]

Latest Tesla
- crashes fixed in docked mode
- race condition workaround in libtesla reverted
- proper fix in libnx

 

[MHHH]

Latest Tesla
- crashes fixed in docked mode
- race condition workaround in libtesla reverted
- proper fix in libnx

Looking forward to test this.. i haven't manage to solve the tesla menu to crash on docked mode yet

 

[Master_lol37]

Latest Tesla
- crashes fixed in docked mode
- race condition workaround in libtesla reverted
- proper fix in libnx

thank you for that new version at me it work on fw 16.0.2 ams 1.5.2 and the official latest release didnt work on that switch
version. Edit: the bug with the docked mode is still there at 16.0.2 and after closing the menu it crash atmosphere but at handheld it does not crash.

 

[urherenow]

To be fair, the latest official release is from Feb 2022, lol. I don't understand why XorTroll doesn't post an interim or something (if he would rather finish something new before making an official new release). I guess the github issues annoy me more than it annoys him. Or maybe he's waiting for the fix added to libnx to be included in an official update through (dkp)pacman...

 

[Cr4nkSt4r]

To be fair, the latest official release is from Feb 2022, lol. I don't understand why XorTroll doesn't post an interim or something (if he would rather finish something new before making an official new release). I guess the github issues annoy me more than it annoys him. Or maybe he's waiting for the fix added to libnx to be included in an official update through (dkp)pacman...

Can't he just compile latest libnx commit and just install in his local environment? It's as easy as using pacman or am I wrong? It didn't took me a minute to do so at least.

 

[sorabora]

Looks like WerWolv updated:

https://github.com/WerWolv/Tesla-Menu/releases/tag/v1.2.2
https://github.com/WerWolv/nx-ovlloader/releases/tag/v1.0.7

 

[urherenow]

Can't he just compile latest libnx commit and just install in his local environment? It's as easy as using pacman or am I wrong? It didn't took me a minute to do so at least.

No. The point is, that there hasn't been a libnx update since the pull request for the fix was merged, so no random person can simply do a pacman -Syuu and expect the fix to libnx to be in there. It won't be. You have to manually clone the libnx github, make, then make install. THEN you can build emuiibo and the bugs (related to the 16.0.1 firmware update) will be gone.

 

[Cr4nkSt4r]

No. The point is, that there hasn't been a libnx update since the pull request for the fix was merged, so no random person can simply do a pacman -Syuu and expect the fix to libnx to be in there. It won't be. You have to manually clone the libnx github, make, then make install. THEN you can build emuiibo and the bugs (related to the 16.0.1 firmware update) will be gone.

And where in the world did I say, I did any pacman? I just said the same as you did, use latest commit from github and install. So you are repeating myself but say No to my question, weird, ngl.

 

[Ethelbert]

Do the official updates by Werwolf have all that proper stuff like the previously shared compiles in this thread do?

 

[Crowe]

I have everything updated and the menu works on the home screen but I can't get it to show up in game. What do I do? Edit: apparently it works in game undocked but goes away when I dock it

 

[masagrator]

I have everything updated and the menu works on the home screen but I can't get it to show up in game. What do I do? Edit: apparently it works in game undocked but goes away when I dock it

This is a known issue with TV scaling. You can't scale tv output in system settings below 100% too much otherwise overlay doesn't show up.

 

[[Truth]]

Do the official updates by Werwolf have all that proper stuff like the previously shared compiles in this thread do?

Yes
They are the exact same files that I posted a few posts ago:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/tesla-the-nintendo-switch-overlay-menu.557362/post-10147875

 

[Tyvar1]

This are a set of homebrew build with latest Libnx from ELY3M (https://github.com/ELY3M/libnx.git) and SwitchBrew (https://github.com/switchbrew/libnx) commit v4.3.0-d219884b, using MinGW on Windows:

Tesla Menu
File: ovlmenu_1_2_1-97b9677_Libtesla-779b4ea.zip
Repo: https://github.com/WerWolv/Tesla-Menu

InfoNX
File: ovl_v1.0.1-3d4c11df_Libtesla-779b4ea.zip
Repo: https://github.com/renA21/InfoNX/

DNS-MITM_Manager
File: DNS-MITM_Manager_0_2_0-0475e9c7_Libtesla-779b4ea.zip
Repo: https://github.com/znxDomain/DNS-MITM_Manager

EdizonOverlay
File: EdiZon-Overlay_1_0_5-e6442c0f_Libtesla-779b4ea_EdiZon-SE-7e0ab09.zip
Repo: https://github.com/proferabg/EdiZon-Overlay

Emuiibo
You need the latest Emuiibo from: https://gbatemp.net/threads/emuiibo-mitming-nfp-services-for-amiibo-emulation.536210/post-10142404


ldn_mitm (Full)
File: ldn_mitm_v1.15.0-61c44713_Libtesla-779b4ea.zip
Repo: https://github.com/spacemeowx2/ldn_mitm

OvlSysmodules
File: ovlSysmodules_1_3_1-9b114b3c_Libtesla-779b4ea.zip
Repo: https://github.com/WerWolv/ovl-sysmodules

QuickNTP
File: QuickNTP-1.2.8-11b9897_Libtesla-779b4ea.zip
Repo: https://github.com/nedex/QuickNTP

Status-Monitor-Overlay
The latest version of this Overlay is on the Masagrator Repo, please download from:
Repo: https://github.com/masagrator/Status-Monitor-Overlay/releases

Studious-Pancake (full)
File: Studious-Pancake_0.4.1-f7f3a696_Libtesla-779b4ea.zip
Repo: https://github.com/HookedBehemoth/studious-pancake


Studious-Pancake (full) With Mariko support
File: Studious-Pancake-BTC_0.4.1-f7f3a696_Libtesla-779b4ea.zip
Repo: https://github.com/btc08gh/studious-pancake

ShareNX-Overlay
File: ShareNX-Overlay-v1.1.3-dd6f0593_Libtesla-779b4ea.zip
Repo: https://github.com/HookedBehemoth/ShareNX-Overlay



OPTIONAL:
TESLA BUILD WITH LATESTS LIBNX, IF YOUR TESLA SYSMODULE IS WORKING FINE POSSIBLY DON'T NEED THIS:

TESLA
File: nx-ovlloader_1_0_6-13295c6d.zip
Repo: https://github.com/WerWolv/nx-ovlloader

This is the version build from the zdm repo, it have 12 commits ahead of the repo from WerWolv
File: nx-ovlloader-zdm-v1.0.6-afaf12a4.zip
Repo: https://github.com/zdm65477730/nx-ovlloader



Hope this help so many of us.

--Edited April 29 2003, reason, builds with updated Libtesla and Atmosphere-libs

emuiibo 1.0.0 is officially released 🙌

https://github.com/XorTroll/emuiibo/releases/tag/1.0.0

 

[Crowe]

This is a known issue with TV scaling. You can't scale tv output in system settings below 100% too much otherwise overlay doesn't show up.

Oh thanks, it was at 95% and I didn't even know. Everything is working now