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!


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Thanks a lot and have fun using and extending it

 

[guily6669]

Sorry I don't get it. NX-OVLLoader is the sysmodule which allows you to use OVLs on your console

either https://github.com/WerWolv/nx-ovlloader/releases and the new fork https://github.com/zdm65477730/nx-ovlloader do not comes with any example OVL, both have this files:

NX-OVLLoader.zip:
\---atmosphere
    \---contents
        \---010000000007E51A
            |   exefs.nsp
            |   toolbox.json
            |
            \---flags
                    boot2.flag

which example OVL is loading your console?

I was lazy to go to PC so I just updated from Homebrew App store...

And the NX-ovlloader 1.07 from there in the "installed files list" also have:

U- switch/.overlays/example.ovl


Then when I opened Tesla menu I had that crap that has some sliders and colorful geometry (still cool to see and then delete it)

 

[impeeza]

I don't know what is example.ovl from HOMEBREW APP STORE is not related to TESLA, nor NX-OVLLoader.

Post automatically merged: Mar 9, 2024

I don't know what is example.ovl from HOMEBREW APP STORE is not related to TESLA, nor NX-OVLLoader.

Ok, I just downloaded, and that example is a example of OVERLAY code which you can find on the source code, is a simple menu, using the basic elements, really does nothing.

 

[jacobkoller]

So this works with no issues on the latest atmo? I read that people have been having issues with it.

 

[nordique]

Its doing it in handheld mode and i havent changed any disp;lay settings on my switch since i got it.

EDIT**
Apparently they changed the menu buttons to activate it, but now it crashes whenever i try to load edizon. any fixes yet?

EDIT #2***
I finally got it. i deleted everything tesla related including .overlay folder, then re downloaded everythiung again and it works. no more crashing.

Just wanted to say thank you - this worked for me too !

 

[SNES-Fan]

Very nice, Tesla + Zing still working with FW 18.

 

[Kitsune_sempai]

thanks, gonna wipe everything tesla related and start fresh then

so strating fresh was not enough, you also need to update to atmo 1.6.2 and FW 17 for the crash to go away, thanks for the help!

same issue as before (good ol' error error 010041544d530000) started reapearing again after I updated atmo to 1.7.0, Totk crashes if mods are installed along with telsa overlay being used.
Before, updating everything was the key but this time updating HOS to 18 didn't fix the issue.
anyone else playing totk with mods along with tesla overlay is able to launch?
update I fixed it: I removed every one of my sysmodule and recreated my content folder, now it boots with mods and tesla, aahh video games