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

 

[devilangelsoul]

hi, I'm experiencing various crashes and every time it tells me that the error is caused by a folder in atmosphere/contents, and specifically "420000000007E51A" which is none other than the nx-ovlloader. I've read around and I know there are compatibility issues with the latest FW, does anyone know a way to fix this?

 

[dsrules]

hi, I'm experiencing various crashes and every time it tells me that the error is caused by a folder in atmosphere/contents, and specifically "420000000007E51A" which is none other than the nx-ovlloader. I've read around and I know there are compatibility issues with the latest FW, does anyone know a way to fix this?

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[devilangelsoul]

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i do it , i use his atmosphere fork , but if i open tesla menu and select amiibo or other, only edizon work, give me the error.

 

[dsrules]

i do it , i use his atmosphere fork , but if i open tesla menu and select amiibo or other, only edizon work, give me the error.

try to recompile all ovl with his libnx

 

[urherenow]

i do it , i use his atmosphere fork , but if i open tesla menu and select amiibo or other, only edizon work, give me the error.

It has nothing to do with atmosphere. It’s libnx. You can recompile Atmosphere with the new libnx, but you’ll also need to create your own loader sigpatches using Mr.Dude’s tool.

Anyway, for newbs, compiling libnx isn’t enough. You must also install it. If you’re compiling on a system that requires sudo, use sudo -E make install.

 

[impeeza]

you have to recompile ovlloader with latest libnx with PR from @masagrator and all overlays need to be recompiled too.

I was able to avoid crashes now.

you can git clone https://github.com/ELY3M/libnx
then cd libnx and make and make install

just compiled all my overlays with this libnx and the latest libtesla, so far all woking fine.

 

[JumpGamer09]

Does Tesla work on 16.0.1?

 

[alexander82]

@impeeza , if you don't mind , would you like share your compiled all overlays with lastest libnx and the latest libtesla ?

Thank you

 

[ELY_M]

I am on 16.0.1 and it is still working. must make sure you fully exit the overlay menu by pressing B few times.

 

[JumpGamer09]

I am on 16.0.1 and it is still working. must make sure you fully exit the overlay menu by pressing B few times.

Thanks. I'll update my firmware to 16.0.1 then.

 

[kizito5]

I am on 16.0.1 and it is still working. must make sure you fully exit the overlay menu by pressing B few times.

Can you upload your recompiled overlays ?

 

[impeeza]

@impeeza , if you don't mind , would you like share your compiled all overlays with lastest libnx and the latest libtesla ?

Thank you

Can you upload your recompiled overlays ?

This are a set of homebrew build with latest Libnx from SwitchBrew (https://github.com/switchbrew/libnx) commit LibNX 4.4.2-8ce306b(2023_05_27-09_24) , using MinGW on Windows and Ubuntu:

Tesla Menu
File: ovlmenu_1_2_3-6b86e3d3_libtesla-f766e9b_LibNX-v4.6.1-b69d2fa9+PR641.zip
Repo: https://github.com/WerWolv/Tesla-Menu
Please use the latest release from Werewolv https://github.com/WerWolv/Tesla-Menu/releases/

InfoNX
File: InfoNX-ovl_v1.0.1-3d4c11df_LibTesla-1.3.3-f766e9b_LibNX-v4.6.1-b69d2fa9+PR641.zip
Repo: https://github.com/renA21/InfoNX/

DNS-MITM_Manager
File: DNS-MITM_Manager_0_2_0-0475e9c7_LibNX-v4.6.1-b69d2fa9+PR641_LibTesla-1.3.3-f766e9b.zip
Repo: https://github.com/znxDomain/DNS-MITM_Manager

EdizonOverlay
File: Use the latest release on the official repo today (2023 06 23, @proferabg released an updated version, thanks a lot) there is no new release for latest libraries
Repo: https://github.com/proferabg/EdiZon-Overlay

Emuiibo
You need the most recent Emuiibo release from: https://github.com/XorTroll/emuiibo/releases
For the latest build, it can be get from action link on GitHub: https://github.com/XorTroll/emuiibo/actions

ldn_mitm (Full) Not working for FW 18 yet
File: https://github.com/PewnyPL/ldn_mitm/releases/download/17.0.0/ldn_mitm_17.0.0.zip
Repo: https://github.com/spacemeowx2/ldn_mitm
Also: https://github.com/PewnyPL/ldn_mitm/releases

OvlSysmodules
File: ovlSysmodules_1_3_1-9b114b3c_LibNX-v4.6.1-b69d2fa9+PR641_LibTesla-1.3.3-f766e9b.zip
Repo: https://github.com/WerWolv/ovl-sysmodules

QuickNTP
File: QuickNTP-1.2.8-11b9897_LibNX-v4.6.1-b69d2fa9+PR641_LibTesla-1.3.3-f766e9b.zip
Repo: https://github.com/nedex/QuickNTP

ShareNX-Overlay
File: ShareNX-Overlay-v1.1.3-dd6f0593_LibNX-v4.6.1-b69d2fa9+PR641_LibTesla-1.3.3-f766e9b.zip
Repo: https://github.com/HookedBehemoth/ShareNX-Overlay

Status-Monitor-Overlay
File: Status-Monitor-Overlay_1_0_3a-4-8ede626_LibNX-v4.6.1-b69d2fa9+PR641_Libtesla-a3da913a(Masagrator)_Atmosphere-libs-fadec298.zip
Repo: https://github.com/masagrator/Status-Monitor-Overlay/releases (Use the latest release on repo)

Studious-Pancake (full) With Mariko support
File: studious-pancake-1.0.0-cc9c9ab8_LibNX-v4.6.1-b69d2fa9+PR641_LibTesla-1.3.3-f766e9b.zip
Repo: https://github.com/btc08gh/studious-pancake, seems it doesn-t work at all, I have not a Mariko Switch, so can not test beyond to build, and as asked by HookedBehemoth is not for been shared on GBATemp https://github.com/HookedBehemoth/studious-pancake/issues/3#issuecomment-1541892855 so removing it. Download latest version from https://github.com/HookedBehemoth/studious-pancake/releases

Sys-CLK not working on FW 18 yet
File: sys-clk-2.0.0-rc_4-2023_10_14.zip
Repo: https://github.com/retronx-team/sys-clk/



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

TESLA
File: nx-ovlloader-zdm-v1.0.7-2024_04_09-c42f5fa6-LibNX-v4.6.1-b69d2fa9+PR641.zip
Repo: https://github.com/WerWolv/nx-ovlloader
Repo: https://github.com/zdm65477730/nx-ovlloader



Hope this help so many of us.

-- Edited May 3oth 2024, update most of the overlays and sysmodules to latest LibNX hence Support FW 18

 

[kizito5]

Hope this help so many of us.

Thanks for the upload, would have recompiled it myself, but there seems to be an issue in the devkitpro install on my setup.


Edit : can confirm it solved all problems. No more crashes.

 

[impeeza]

Thanks for the upload, would have recompiled it myself, but there seems to be an issue in the devkitpro install on my setup.


Edit : can confirm it solved all problems. No more crashes.

That's is thanks to @masagrator and @ELY_M they are the mages I just compiled the sources from they.

By the way that's why I love MSYS if something gey sketchy you only delete a folder and reinstall (pacman) all packages you use and no problem. No inter software dependencies no system variables no duplicated libraries to catch etc.

 

[[Truth]]

Updated overlays

Thank you so much!

Would it be possible to also compile new versions of:
https://github.com/SegFault42/sys-ftpd-ovl
https://github.com/retronx-team/sys-clk (don´t know if there is a fork with a newer version.

 

[impeeza]

Thank you so much!

Would it be possible to also compile new versions of:
https://github.com/SegFault42/sys-ftpd-ovl
https://github.com/retronx-team/sys-clk (don´t know if there is a fork with a newer version.

For Sys-FTPD-ovl, they need lot of changes to works with newest LibNX and my programming skills are not enought.

Just try to build SYS-Clk but doesn't compile with latest LIBTESLA. sorry.

 

[[Truth]]

For Sys-FTPD-ovl, they need lot of changes to works with newest LibNX and my programming skills are not enought.

Just try to build SYS-Clk but doesn't compile with latest LIBTESLA. sorry.

Perhaps it compiles with this fork:
https://github.com/jope82/sys-clk-uncapped-gpu-and-other-extras
It was already updated for 16.0.0

 

[josete2k]

I have both of them working in my atmosphere pack...


For sys-clk I managed to compile this pull

https://github.com/retronx-team/sys-clk/pull/63

And for sys ftpd this is working (recompiling)

https://github.com/cathery/sys-ftpd



Tibtesla: https://github.com/WerWolv/libtesla/pull/63

Libnx: https://github.com/ELY3M/libnx

 

[[Truth]]

@josete2k, can you upload your compiled versions here?

 

[josete2k]

@josete2k, can you upload your compiled versions here?

I'm not at home.


I've added them to this pack...

https://www.mediafire.com/file/whw5gdwwt66cat3/PacOS.rar/file