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

[PRAGMA]

NTON
Homebrew NRO to NSP Forwarder for Firmware 12.0.0+

A forwarder lets you open Homebrew files from your SD card through the Nintendo Switch Home Screen instead of the Homebrew Launcher.

https://github.com/rlaphoenix/nton
Now with a GUI as of v2.0.0

Features​

• ⚙ Firmware 12.0.0+ Support
• Title ID Conflict Checks
• Automatically Extracts Title Information and Icon from NRO
• Direct Game Forwarding
• Enable or Disable Video Capture and Screenshots
• 1MB Install Size
• Custom Icons
• Plug-and-play
• GUI and CLI Interfaces
• Forever FOSS!

Please take a look at the GitHub page for more information.
All downloads can be found here: https://github.com/rlaphoenix/nton/releases

 

[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?

 

[PRAGMA]

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

I've started working on one today and in around 8-10 hrs ive gotten it almost ready in terms of it loading and proprogating the data. I just have some tiny things to work on in regards to data loading. The building feature/button is not implemented at all yet but it will be an incredibly easy task. I'd say give me a week max and it will be released, hopefully.

 

[PRAGMA]

The GUI is finished, but I need to work on some extra stuff to make .exe's for releases. If you want to jump in now, take a look at https://github.com/rlaphoenix/nton/tree/gui (note you will need to follow installation as listed in that branch's Development section, not the installation section)

Here's what it looks like:

Post automatically merged: Aug 12, 2023

I've releaded the GUI as v2.0.0, with both Installer and Portable builds.
See: https://github.com/rlaphoenix/nton/releases/tag/v2.0.0

 

[mspy]

This is great!

 

[laz305]

Thanks this worked when others wouldn’t.