Our sunriser friend Lbn informs me that a new version of Hekate and Nyx have just been proposed, respectively 5.8.0 and 1.3.0, let’s take a look at the new features.
Here are some of the changes:
– The “More Configs” menu under “Launch” now displays ten entries in a 5×2 grid, with an additional button added for more entries. If you are bothered by gray boxes around icons, you can remove them by adding “_nobox.bmp” to the icon filename.
– EmuMMC backups are now backup/{EmuMMC_Seriennummer}/emummc saved in path ” “.
– Hori gamepads can be used on the Switch OLED – control via USB gamepad has also been improved in general.
– A defective SD card is also checked in several places and a warning is issued – this applies, for example, to the archive bit repair tool and the partition manager. The very comprehensive changelog can be found below.
– “CTCaer mod” of the title because hekate is not officially called that anymore.
Changelog Hekate v5.8.0:
– Better backlight control for Aula’s OLED panel
– Fixed an issue where Nyx would not load after an unsuccessful attempt to chain load a payload
– Added watchdog timer to protect against crashes due to SD corruption when loading and running LP0/Minerva configuration
– Now if libraries are corrupted and run it will trigger watchdog after 5 seconds if BPMP crashes and reload and ignore them
– Fixed a bug in the low battery monitor where it could turn off the display 2 times.
– Various BDK (HW) changes that are propagated to hekate main (i.e. under the hood improvements)
Changelog NYX v1.3.0:
– Added support for 5 entries per line in Launch/More Configs for a total of 10 entries
– A new button called Extended Boot Entries is available in Nyx options
– Support for removing the gray background box on launch inputs has been added
– To remove it, the icon must be named *_nobox.bmp. This also allows custom designs in-icon for better theme support.
– The above 2 features can be viewed in #739
– emuMMC backup now uses the backup/{emmc_sn}/emummc folder instead of the default folder to keep it separate
– Support for Switch Lite gamepad (Sio)
– Hori gamepads on Switch OLED support
– Improved Joycon communication.
– Now USB gamepad will behave better. The virtual mouse will not drift (if drift is not an issue). And finally, dumping BT pairs should always succeed on the first try, if it finds HOS pairings, unlike before where it sometimes failed to find them.
– Fix archive bit tool now protects against corrupted SD cards, to avoid crashes
– It now also reports errors when trying to access folders or repair archive bits
– Partition manager backup/restore now protects against corrupted SD cards, to avoid crashes
– Partition Manager now offers full cleaning, in case it can save the contents.
– Partition manager now backs up the Mariko Warmboot Storage folder if it cannot perform a full backup. (Previously it only backs up the bootloader folder).
– Fix Hybrid MBR button now also clears hidden Windows attributes for MBR or GPT schemes and also checks if MBR has a GPT partition, to avoid re-enabling dead GPTs.
– Added support for displaying info and getting proper ipatches dumps on T210B01 (Mariko)
– Added information about the new Hynix DRAM chip
– microSD information now also shows the total size of the FAT partition
– Various BDK (HW) changes that are propagated to hekate main (under the hood improvements)
BDK:
– Display: a complete refactoring of the display interface driver has been done
– Deduplicates various configurations and also brings full support for Samsung OLED panel with proper backlight control and color management. Additionally, it saves about 1 KB of payload space.
– SDRAM: deduplicated dram configuration fixes to save binary space
– 5V Regulator: Added support for Hoag and Aula
– Fan: Added support for Hoag and Aula
– s_printf now prints negative numbers if %d is used. Also, it is now checked for format errors.
– Note: 64-bit types are still not supported. Convert them to 32-bit equivalent and print them in parts).
– Any code that manually handles negative numbers should remove this part.
– UART: driver now supports manual and automatic hardware flow control and support for 2 stop bits for higher baud rates
– BREAKING: uart_wait_idle function renamed to uart_wait_xfer and uart_print to uart_printf to reflect what they do.
– Joycon: driver refactored and now supports Switch Lite
– The refactoring also improved communication and fixed various issues when interfacing with them.
– SDMMC: Fixed an issue where lower eMMC speeds would register as HS200 instead of lower
– SDMMC: CSD and SCR get functions exposed.
– USB2: stack now behaves better when RAM is slow
– XUSB: Improved power off
– USB2/XUSB: Properly unconfigure terminals when prompted by host
– Heap information has been extended with used nodes and total number of nodes.
– Ini: Added appropriate free ini function (ini_free)
– List: added backspace macros for lists
– Tmr/WDT: added timer/watchdog driver and moved all timer/sleep functions to it
– IRQ: Added FIQ watchdog management with BDK_WATCHDOG_FIQ_ENABLE. Setting BDK_RESTART_BL_ON_WDT also causes bootloader reload on FIQ
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