EET on Nintendo Switch possible?

[GloriousCheese]

As per title. Can I install EET on PC then transfer it to Nintendo Switch using the romfs method?

[Graion Dilach]

Noidea, we dunno what are the differences between the Switch UI and the vanilla UI or what is the Switch patchlevel. More likely this won't work.

[subtledoctor]

I think the big question is, can you get any Weidu mods onto the Switch. I feel like I saw posts about it, somewhere… but they involved the term “jailbreak” and I have no idea what that involves, on a Nintendo machine. 

[GloriousCheese]

14 hours ago, subtledoctor said:

I think the big question is, can you get any Weidu mods onto the Switch. I feel like I saw posts about it, somewhere… but they involved the term “jailbreak” and I have no idea what that involves, on a Nintendo machine. 

My Switch has been jailbroken, so getting the files onto the Switch is no issue. My concern is whether it'll work. Can you please point me towards the post that you saw? Thanks.

Edited August 30, 2023 by GloriousCheese

[subtledoctor]

God, I don’t know where or when I saw anything about it. I presume what you might do is mod the game on a PC and then send the modded files to the Switch. But I don’t know how.

[Graion Dilach]

As far as I know, the Switch has it's own version numbering and what was required for the radial UI to be implemented in the game. Some mods probably work, yes. But considering that EET needs to be tailored for all game versions and there's zero documentation about the Switch's changes, like for example how the game's even packaged, considering that it seems that the entire EE trilogy is sold as one game... it's hard for modders to support that platform.

The problem isn't with the jailbreaking, but the fact that noone knows from the scene what Skybound did.

Edited August 30, 2023 by Graion Dilach

[GloriousCheese]

7 hours ago, Graion Dilach said:

As far as I know, the Switch has it's own version numbering and what was required for the radial UI to be implemented in the game. Some mods probably work, yes. But considering that EET needs to be tailored for all game versions and there's zero documentation about the Switch's changes, like for example how the game's even packaged, considering that it seems that the entire EE trilogy is sold as one game... it's hard for modders to support that platform.

The problem isn't with the jailbreaking, but the fact that noone knows from the scene what Skybound did.

I found this post by Cirosan on how to mod the games on Switch:

 

Seems like it's possible to only mod them individually. I went into the folder structure and saw that it's separated into 3 folders, BG1+SoD, BG2, assets.

Sigh... what a missed opportunity.

Here's a dump of the assets folder:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/r63dhtc88yv2ftk/assets.zip/file

I noticed that there's quite a few extra .menu files compared to the PC version. Hope that there's someone who's experienced enough in modding to know what they've changed and added.

*Edit: Looks like not all mods can work with Switch version. I couldn't install BG1 Unfinished Business due to the chitin.key file being different from the PC version. Welp, guess only the PC version can play EET then.

Edited August 31, 2023 by GloriousCheese