Homebrew App Store - GUI for downloading/managing homebrew apps
Extract the right *-extracttosd.zip for your platform to the root of the SD card.
On Wii U: There is a new Aroma-ready category for downloading WUHBs. As of this time, hb-appstore on Wii U is available as both a WUHB or RPX. Both versions should be able to live side by side and work as expected in both Aroma and Tiramisu environments.
"Now Playing" info is displayed in the UI, and the background.mp3
file can be replaced and customized by the user
The default repo URLs are changed to new bunny.net powered CDN URLs**
* When Aroma is out of beta, most current ELF/RPX apps will move to the "Legacy" category, and the "Aroma-Ready" category apps will take over the usual categories.
** The included repos.json file in the zip file will overwrite and automatically update existing users to these new repo URLs.
Extract the right *-extracttosd.zip for your platform to the root of the SD card.
This release has significantly faster download + extraction speeds, support for viewing screenshots of each app, and music-related changes.
On Wii U: There is a new Aroma-ready category for downloading WUHBs. As of this time, hb-appstore on Wii U is available as both a WUHB or RPX. Both versions should be able to live side by side and work as expected in both Aroma and Tiramisu environments.
All Platforms:
background.mp3
file
Wii U Specific:
Switch Specific:
Repo Management:
* When Aroma is out of beta, most current ELF/RPX apps will move to the "Legacy" category, and the "Aroma-Ready" category apps will take over the usual categories.
** The included repos.json file in the zip file will overwrite and automatically update existing users to these new repo URLs.
appstore.nro
to sd:/switch/appstore/appstore.nro
, and run via hbmenuappstore.rpx
to sd:/wiiu/apps/appstore/appstore.rpx
, and run via HBL*-extracttosd.zip
for your platform to the root of the SD cardThis update should address a lot of the slowness and crashing that people have experienced. We have other infrastructure-related changes that we're still working on, but are publishing this now to make sure these client bugfixes are out there!
In July 2019, we passed our third year of hosting the Homebrew App Store service since starting on the Wii U! Thank you to everyone who has used the App Store or otherwise shown support for this project. You're the reason we keep doing this.
The App Store team is: pwsincd, rw-r-r_0644, CompuCat, crc32, vgmoose, quarky, Whovian9369 Our homepage: https://fortheusers.org Chat with us on Discord: https://discord.fortheusers.org
Wii U + Switch App Client Download: https://gitlab.com/4TU/hb-appstore/-/releases
*Wii U Notice: The duplicate appstore entries in HBL was an oversight, but should resolve itself after launching either HBL app after the update. It has to do with old users migrating from .elf to .rpx, and me trying to consolidate it for each platform. After updating, the issue should not occur again in the future due to libget#8 being fixed.
Installation:
appstore.nro
to sd:/switch/appstore/appstore.nro
, and run via hbmenuappstore.rpx
to sd:/wiiu/apps/appstore/appstore.rpx
, and run via HBL*-extracttosd.zip
for your platform to the root of the SD cardChangelog:
Switch:
Both:
Wii U:
The PC build has also started migrating to Buck + Buckaroo for building and dependency management. It is my long term goal to use the same Buck configuration to compile across all platforms!
Changelog:
New Features:
Enhancements:
Bug fixes:
This is a Switch homebrew app for downloading and installing more homebrew from Switchbru's repository.
To use it, see the instructions in the readme. Homebrew is only currently publicly compatible with 3.0.0 Switches.
The first load will take a while as it caches some icon and banner data, loads after that should be much faster. The best way to interact with the app is by using the touch screen, but there are also gamepad controls.
Known issues:
Reporting issues can be done on Github or on the Switchbru Discord (or #switchbru on Freenode)
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This is a (preview!!) of a graphical front end to the "get" package manager, for downloading and managing installed homebrew apps on the Switch console itself. This is a spiritual successor to the Wii U Homebrew app store.
Issues:
It has a very basic text-based interface for downloading and installing homebrew. I would like feedback from the community on what works and doesn't work with this format. Going forward for the 1.0 release, I want to complete the visuals in #1. Please leave feedback here.
This .nro is hardcoded to load repo data from switchbru.com/appstore. The get package manager supports multiple repositories configured in a json file, but to properly handle DNS lookup I would want #2 to be finished first.
It crashes sometimes when downloading some files. I think it has to do with files that are pre-installed on the SD card before downloading them through the app. Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated (#3)
Thanks for checking out this app preview and reporting any feedback. I want the "get" package manager to be as versatile as possible to handle future apps, and also to backport these changes to the Wii U, so that it can also benefit from these enhancements.
EDIT Mar 15 2018: fix crashes during downloading some zips EDITMar 15 2018: fix bug removing packages