TX Announces SX OS v2.2 BETA with Docked USB Drive Support

It's only been a week since Team-Xecuter made the big announcement of SX OS v2.1 with their 'cheat engine'

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And now they are back and on a roll with them adding 'Docked USB Drive Support' and many other nice improvements to their 'cheat engine' and a few bug fixes! :)
How do you do, dear SX OS users?

Today we are back once again with a much anticipated new feature as well as various improvements to existing functionality for SX OS. While this is still labelled as BETA we've had some good success with it internally, we're looking forward to your feedback.

Lets jump into the list of changes!
  • Docked USB drive support!
Yes. You read it right. You can now plug a USB mass storage device into your switch' dock and load XCI or install NSP content from there directly. No longer are you limited by the size of your microSD card when playing the switch from the comfort of your couch, but you can now enjoy TERABYTES of content by using external harddisks and such! The filesystem on the drive needs to be either FAT32 or exFAT, and the directories that are being scanned for content are equal to the ones you'd use on the microSD card.
  • Updates to the cheat system
    • More accurate progress indication during cheat search
      People were reporting "freezes" during cheat searches, often times these were just due to impatience and a suboptimal UI from our end. The progress bars are more honest and update more frequently now!
    • Cheat search for exact value requires no initial dump anymore
      For 'exact value' searches a big initial dump file on your microSD is not needed, and since this is often the way people start a cheat search we decided to streamline the cheat finder process a bit. You are now prompted with a question whether you want to start an exact value search or arbitrary value search, in case of the former the process will be much faster.
    • Automatically apply/disable cheats upon toggle
      The interface for "applying" the cheats was a bit counterintuitive, you now no longer have to press the plus (+) button in order to apply cheats. They are automatically applied/disabled once you toggle them. Disabling cheats now properly works as well, so there's no need for having a dummy cheat any more to work around that limitation.
    • Ability to add cheats using the UI
      Identifying memory locations for cheats using just the console is nice, but previously there was no way of adding an actual cheat-code for a location you found to the cheat code library. This has been addressed, and there is now an interface for doing this directly from our menu.
  • Show homebrew NSP icons in TX menu
    Some homebrew NSP titles were not displaying their icons properly. This has been investigated and fixed.
  • Fix error 2345-0021 when in docked mode opening TX menu
    People who play/cheat in docked mode will like this fix. The frequent crashes that happened when opening the TX menu in docked mode are now a thing of the past!
That's it folks. Enjoy this BETA and let us know what you think. We have more tricks up our sleeves, more rabbits in our tophats. And we only have one gear: FORWARD.

--< Team-Xecuter - Rocking the Switch in 2018 and beyond! >--
Enjoy! :)

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It's usb 3 reasonably new Seagate drive. I noticed the light doesn't even turn on when it's plugged into the switch so I'm guessing I can't use this drive. Ill see if I can use another one. I have a old 1tb usb 2.0 drive here so I'll test with that

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Try a Y cable . Probably needs more juice
 

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i know wrong thread but i have a prob i updated to 6.0.1 and booted switch it had to reboot..... it wont turn on it is plugged to charge still nothing
 

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My non-powered external drives start clicking when the switch is in sleep mode. The same thing would happen when I tried to use these drives on my Wii u without a y cable.

Maybe the dock reduces amperage in sleep mode? - This is just speculation on my part. This happened to two different external drive enclosures with 2.5" laptop harddrives. Both in USB 2.0 and USB 3.0.

I don't have a way of checking amperage to confirm my theory but I can confirm the drives don't click when the Switch is powered on.
 
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My non-powered external drives start clicking when the switch is in sleep mode. The same thing would happen when I tried to use these drives on my Wii u without a y cable.

Maybe the dock reduces amperage in sleep mode? - This is just speculation on my part. This happened to two different external drive enclosures with 2.5" laptop harddrives. Both in USB 2.0 and USB 3.0.

I don't have a way of checking amperage to confirm my theory but I can confirm the drives don't click when the Switch is powered on.
Because it is drawing power but not enough. When a drive gets power but not enough it doesn't fully spin and you get the clicking. Stop using that since it is constantly power drawing from the port wich isn't good for the port
 
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My non-powered external drives start clicking when the switch is in sleep mode. The same thing would happen when I tried to use these drives on my Wii u without a y cable.

Maybe the dock reduces amperage in sleep mode? - This is just speculation on my part. This happened to two different external drive enclosures with 2.5" laptop harddrives. Both in USB 2.0 and USB 3.0.

I don't have a way of checking amperage to confirm my theory but I can confirm the drives don't click when the Switch is powered on.
Same issue, so powered HDD is better? And what about SSD I’ve one sitting around in inclosure
 

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So i tried my western digital 4 TB exfat formated 3.0 , and it doesnt work i tried with a single cable and with a Y cable both ends connected to the switch and doesnt work
 

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Same issue, so powered HDD is better? And what about SSD I’ve one sitting around in inclosure
Ssd should be fine since it is a flash drive and those don't drawn that amount of power like a regular hdd dpes

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So i tried my western digital 4 TB exfat formated 3.0 , and it doesnt work i tried with a single cable and with a Y cable both ends connected to the switch and doesnt work
Did you make it an mbr drive instead of a gpt drive. Only MBR works when using 4tb is what i got from the comments and not gpt
 
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Ssd should be fine since it is a flash drive and those don't drawn that amount of power like a regular hdd dpes

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Did you make it an mbr drive instead of a gpt drive. Only MBR works when using 4tb is what i got from the comments and not gpt
you have it backwards gpt has a Petrabyte or so limit MBR can only read upto 2 TB
 

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hmm, when connecting any usb drive and i am in SX menu, and trying to load up a hombrew like NX shell, the system crash with error.
i am trying to move nsp file from the flash drive to micro SD card so i can install them using tinfoil.
 

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So is it not recommended to use usb powered drives? I currently have the sea gate expansion, The 2tb version. Would it be safe to use or better to get a self powered one?
 

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So is it not recommended to use usb powered drives? I currently have the sea gate expansion, The 2tb version. Would it be safe to use or better to get a self powered one?
From my experience, it never hurts to get self powered drives. I’ve got them for all other systems and absolutely no issues.
 

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Tried the USB support with both a 32GB Kingston USB & my 8TB Seagate Expansion, both formatted to exFat. Kingston works, but only if I dump all my xci files in the root, I tried most of the folder structures and it doesn't find anything. The 8TB drive having all the xci files in the root, shows nothing. The drive itself has an external power plug in order to run so it should be fine on power, maybe a compatibility issue?
 
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