Switch developer SciresM has released a major update to Atmosphère. Atmosphère’s Fusée has been rewritten entirely in C++, and is now booting much faster than ever.

There are a few backward-compatibility breaking changes in there, in particular with some config files, so make sure to check the changelog below if you are running into issues. In particular people using Hekate (I know that’s a lot of us) and people relying on the nogc configuration.

Atmosphère 1.0.0 – what’s new

From the changelog:

• fusee was completely re-written in C++ to use the same atmosphere-libs APIs as the rest of atmosphere’s code.
  • The rewrite was performed with a big emphasis on ensuring a good boot speed, and generally boot should be much faster than it was previously.
    • Depending on SD card/environment, boot speed may now be slightly faster than, roughly the same as, or slightly slower than when booting with hekate.
    • The obvious low-hanging fruit for performance improvements has been picked, so hopefully the improved performance is to everybody’s liking.
  • SD card compatibility was improved: fusee should now have SD card compatibility identical to the official OS driver.
  • Please Note: various components were renamed (fusee-primary.bin -> fusee.bin, fusee-secondary.bin -> package3).
    • If you use another bootloader (like hekate), you may need to update your configuration to use the new layout.
  • Please Note: BCT.ini no longer exists, nogc configuration has been moved to /atmosphere/config/stratosphere.ini.
    • If you rely on custom nogc configuration, please be sure to update accordingly.
  • Custom splash screen BMP parsing is no longer supported (as it slows down boot for 99% of users).
    • To compensate for this, a script to insert a custom splash screen into a package3 binary has been added to the utilities folder of the atmosphere repository.
    • The release build should be equivalent to running the following command from the root of the atmosphere repository: python utilities/insert_splash_screen.py img/splash.png fusee/package3
• A number of pending changes were made, following the end of the relevant testing periods:
  • mesosphere is no longer opt-out, and stratosphere code will begin depending on its being present/in use.
  • NCM is no longer opt-out.
  • The cleanup to ease the transition from < 0.19.0 to 0.19.0 has been removed.
• General system stability improvements to enhance the user’s experience.

Download Atmosphère 1.0.0

Please note that this is a pre-release. Although not really a beta, issues might still exist in the code. If any bug is reported, the build will be updated before going to actual “release”. If you’re worried, just wait for the official release which should happen later this week.

You can download Atmosphère 1.0.0 from the developer’s github here.

Source: SciresM