Sphaira v1.0.0 EA4
Added 2025-09-21 23:29:07 +0000 UTCChangelog:
Fixes long standing issue with MTP installs (and file writes) on Windows where the MTP client would timeout after 5s+ of inactivity. This only happened on Windows and when installing a NSZ, as it would block while it's decompressing.
Fix FTP server stack size being too small, which could crash when listing custom mounts.
Fix FTP game dumping if the FTP client tried to read past the total file size, where it would return an error instead of returning zero for the bytes read (EOF).
Added "mounts" to FTP and MTP, allowing you to access custom mounts. For example, you can access your SMB mount over MTP.
Display a spinner when loading icons for homebrew / games / saves.
Display the storage size for the internal storage and sd card at the top of the screen (replaces battery and current time).
When connected to WiFi, display the WiFi strength (will be replaced with signal strength bars soon).
Fixed dumping saves to the sd card in applet mode.
Recolour all info text using the proper info colour from the theme.
NCA content type names have been shorted. LegalInformation -> Legal, DeltaFragment -> Delta.
Added theme option to hide the IP address.
Removed loading FTP config from ftpsrv. Sphaira now uses it's own config.
Added options for FTP and MTP allowing you to see / change the port, user, pass as well as toggling the visibility of custom mounts, such as album.
Fixed FTP/MTP game dumping when the game was a gamecard with installed update and / or DLC. Because the gamecard wasn't inserted, the folder would be displayed as empty. This is now fixed, showing installed content regardless of the gamecard being inserted or not.
Rational behind the menu status (battery, time) changes
In this update, i have removed the current time and battery display with them being replaced with the storage size for both internal and the sd card.
The reason for this is because the screen space in Sphaira is very limited. I can only fit 3 items at the top of the menu at once. The time and battery can easily be accessed already by pressing / holding the home button, making 2/3 items currently displayed redundant.
The IP address display is useful because accessing it normally requires navigating through the settings. Sphaira currently had no way of displaying the current storage size, and with all the mount options recently added and installing games etc, it became more important to somehow display this.
So it became clear that the best option was the replace the redundant items with the storage sizes. As a bonus, i added a theme option to disable displaying the IP address, if you personally don't find that useful.
Accessing mounts via FTP/MTP
You can now access your custom mounts (FTP, SFTP, HTTP, Webdav, SMB, NFS) over Sphaira's FTP / MTP!
To do this, first enable the "Show mounts" option in the network options for either FTP / MTP. Then simply connect to your switch either via USB cable (MTP) or a FTP client such as FileZilla. You will see a folder called "mounts" which will contain all the custom mounts.
The reason for disabling this option by default is that some PC clients will recursively scan folders to check whats in them. Recursively scanning all network mounts at once would be very slow. Most clients (Windows, FileZilla) do not do this, so it's likely fine to enable.
Edit / Changes
There have been a few silent releases since then that have fixed a few bugs.
26/09/25: Fixed MTP/FTP game list bug where it would not show updates/DLC if the gamecard was removed.
28/09/25: Fixed homebrew menu bug where a crash could happen if using the "hidden" feature and scrolling to the bottom.
28/09/25: Fixed creating new mounts if the mount folder didn't already exist.
Comments
Hi! Thanks for the suggestions. For hiding the forwarder, that was the original behaviour of sphaira. However, most users hated that feature. They found it too confusing to figure out to enable installing. It's a tough choice to make because there is no way of pleasing everyone 😅 but I do agree with the feedback that enabling the option was too cryptic. Since changing to the new greyed out version, reports have stopped. I add a huge warning box before enabling which imo is enough. Because of this is, it's unlikely that I'll revert back to the old version. I can add the option for setting the name for a save backup, it'll be in the next version I release, which hopefully should be today.
TotalJustice
2025-10-09 10:21:50 +0000 UTCHi, I just paid my support to say thanks for this awesome app, it's super convenient it even replace some popular homebrew apps :D but I suggest some things maybe I could sound super noob but well I hope at least you can read me 1 please add an option to give a name for a backup save because when I make a backup it just do it without ask for a name like checkpoint for example and 2 I really feel like hiding install forwarder even if sysmmc installation is disabled it can be better than leave the option grayed there or install options on menu because some people are just careless so, I think the best feature of public release is the fact that everything is hidden unless the user explicitly enables sysmmc installation for a guaranteed ban lol excellent work as always bro :)
Alexis Danel
2025-10-07 10:08:08 +0000 UTCI don't really understand this feature, although I haven't checked it out in dbi myself. You can message me with screenshots if you like. Once I better understand the feature I can say if it's worth adding or not 😄
TotalJustice
2025-10-06 08:25:19 +0000 UTCOne suggestion: DBi has an option to convert folders to bin files. This is very useful, especially for translated games. There are translations with multiple files, and when you convert, only the bin file remains. DBi converts it and then deletes the folder, leaving only the bin file. Edit: Can I send screenshots here for you to see?
João Eyes
2025-10-04 20:15:57 +0000 UTCI've recently been thinking the same thing. I'll add this feature for the next version
TotalJustice
2025-10-02 03:11:49 +0000 UTCCan I make a suggestion? I was thinking. Let's say sphaira is the only homebrew you have, because it does everything you need and you don't need anything else. Then you have an empty page as the default main page, and only two pages on each side available for functionality you actually use. So it could be worth it to make the middle/main menu configurable too, like the left side and right side menus. That would be useful too in cases where you sometimes need homebrew, but not often, and there are other pages you use more often like the Saves menu for making and restoring backups, or some people like to use the Games menu for running games instead of the home menu. Then you could set that page as the main page, and shift Homebrew to the right or left side so it's still accessible for the times you need it. Sphaira was made as a homebrew menu replacement, so it makes sense that the Homebrew page is front and center and that it was never made configurable. but with more and more features being added, depending on the user's needs, it could make sense for homebrew browsing/launching to be considered as being just another feature of the app, rather than the main functionality.
oink-rethink-shout
2025-10-01 21:31:38 +0000 UTCHow about a rename? HackerMenu 😎
laz305
2025-09-30 00:14:03 +0000 UTC
