• Features
• Architecture
• Screenshots
• How to build
• SD card layout
• Help me
• Credits
• License

• switchu-daemon (System Applet, title ID 0x0100000000001000)
  • Replaces qlaunch
  • Handles lifecycle, HOME/suspend-resume flow, sleep/reboot and IPC
• switchu-menu (Library Applet, title ID 0x010000000000100B)
  • Renders the full UI
  • Communicates with daemon through AppletStorage + swu:m notifications
• SwitchU (Homebrew mode)
  • Monolithic .nro target for standalone usage/testing

• devkitPro
• Xmake

git clone --recursive https://github.com/PoloNX/SwitchU
cd SwitchU

xmake f -p cross --toolchain=devkita64
xmake

xmake f -p cross --toolchain=devkita64 --homebrew=y
xmake

xmake f -p cross --toolchain=devkita64 --backend=sdl2
xmake

xmake clean

Build outputs are generated under build/cross/aarch64/<mode>/.

• Some settings are not implemented yet
• Current icons are very ugly, feel free to replace them with better ones
• SDL2 backend is very buggy and incomplete, use it for testing only
• You may experience somme crash when using overlays

• sdmc:/config/SwitchU/config.ini: user settings
• sdmc:/config/SwitchU/applist.bin: app metadata cache
• sdmc:/config/SwitchU/daemon.log and sdmc:/config/SwitchU/menu.log: runtime logs
• sdmc:/switch/SwitchU/: assets in non-homebrew mode

If you want to help, open an issue when you find a bug and open a pull request if you have a fix.

• Thanks to Xortroll for the help and for uLaunch which inspired this project a lot

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. See the LICENSE file for details.