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

GitHub Sponsors https://github.com/sponsors/WerWolv
PayPal https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=KP7XRJAND9KWU&source=url
Patreon https://www.patreon.com/werwolv


Thanks a lot and have fun using and extending it

 

[ShadowOne333]

OMG! this made turn the cheats on and off in resident 6 so easy!!!
it wouldnt fully pause when trying to get to the album to turn on the cheats....
But now....
Now i turn the cheats on and off without leaving the game! THANK YOU!!!!!!!

Do you know if there's cheats for unlocking all the achievements?
I hate the fact that some are locked behind online play.

 

[Gamerjin]

Do you know if there's cheats for unlocking all the achievements?
I hate the fact that some are locked behind online play.

Sadly I'm in the same boat as you, locked online achievements, but this is not the thread to ask about that...If the online achievements unlock a skill, I believe someone already listed the skill over on the cheats request page....
I was only mentioning how much easier it is turn on and off the existing cheats right now...

 

[Antivash]

Question: Is this designed specifically for handheld-mode only, without the intention to be used while docked?

I ask purely because I can only get it to open in handheld mode. Also only seems to open with the joycons, and only while they are attached. Anyone else having a similar issue?

 

[gudenau]

Question: Is this designed specifically for handheld-mode only, without the intention to be used while docked?

I ask purely because I can only get it to open in handheld mode. Also only seems to open with the joycons, and only while they are attached. Anyone else having a similar issue?

That's a good point, wouldn't be able to open this with a GameCube controller.

 

[masagrator]

Wonderful work!!
I add an idea.. if it's possibile to change the hotkeys to L + Screenshot button. I think it's more simple for end users.

This would require preventing from doing screenshot which would be little complicated without injecting into game code.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Now this is a game changer. Hope Emuiibo also gets ported. Other than that, I guess I can't think of anything else currently that would benefit greatly from this. I don't normally use cheats myself, but more convenient access to Amiibo emulation would be a huge thing that anyone could benefit from.

Now let's see how long it takes Team Xecuter to steal this. You know they will, as this is a killer feature that could get people to go with Atmosphere instead of SX OS.

 

[yousar59]

Wonderful work!!
I add an idea.. if it's possibile to change the hotkeys to L + Screenshot button. I think it's more simple for end users.

how change hotkeys?

 

[Antivash]

how change hotkeys?

At present, it seems we can't change them.

 

[graeme122]

Could this show frame rate.

 

[masagrator]

Could this show frame rate.

With this you can't measure game FPS as refreshing is Independent of game framebuffer.

 

[LightBeam]

Now this is a game changer. Hope Emuiibo also gets ported. Other than that, I guess I can't think of anything else currently that would benefit greatly from this. I don't normally use cheats myself, but more convenient access to Amiibo emulation would be a huge thing that anyone could benefit from.

Now let's see how long it takes Team Xecuter to steal this. You know they will, as this is a killer feature that could get people to go with Atmosphere instead of SX OS.

Shhhh ... People will say that Atmos fans are those who trash SX fans first and there will be a great drama on the next news about an SX OS update !!

 

[graeme122]

With this you can't measure game FPS as refreshing is Independent of game framebuffer.

Ok thanks for the reply.

 

[ShadowOne333]

Sadly I'm in the same boat as you, locked online achievements, but this is not the thread to ask about that...If the online achievements unlock a skill, I believe someone already listed the skill over on the cheats request page....
I was only mentioning how much easier it is turn on and off the existing cheats right now...

Gotcha, and yeah indeed having the option to toggle cheats on the fly is amazing!
Can't wait to try it out myself

 

[AkiraKurusu]

Pokemon screenshots...sigh. Displaying something awesome on top of a rotting corpse its killers are demanding ever-increasing amounts of money for.

 

[hippy dave]

Looks great, just what the homebrew scene needs - awesome work!

 

[Rahkeesh]

Would love this with sys-clk to thoroughly test different settings.

 

[linuxares]

Would love this with sys-clk to thoroughly test different settings.

Indeed!

Works like a charm with https://gbatemp.net/download/cheat-codes-sxos-and-ams-main-cheat-file-updated.36311/

 

[iriez]

repo's added for monitoring on xbins. Thanks for the great contribution werewolv!

 

[Souperman9]

This is amazing! Reminds me of Luma's menu on the 3DS.

 

[tallbl0nde]

This is certainly an interesting idea, well done! I've already got something planned that could work with this...