Switch-Toolbox VS wabbajack

Get Switch Toolbox > Put the Zs Dictionary file into the Toolbox's Lib folder (Toolbox-Latest\Lib)

What would you like to know? It basically decompresses .zs files into a simpler file type, and with the simpler file type you can use Switch Toolbox to browse the contents of the file. You cannot do that with the .zs type.

Sure, I can send you the model folder in dm's, but you have to open them using switch toolbox: https://github.com/KillzXGaming/Switch-Toolbox/releases

First, I use nxdumptool to export the game & update's assets, or romfs, to the SD card. I then used Switch Toolbox to export the models, textures, and animations that I want.

Earlier this year I had no choice to make use of Switch Toolbox for example in the process of putting together this texture pack for Pokemon Legends Arceus

You'll need a homebrew app called nxdumptool to dump the romfs, and maybe something like switch toolbox or something.

There's still some more unused content I've found, but I'll most likely compile those in a separate post. Before I end, I'll give thanks to Switch Toolbox for making ripping a lot easier than it would have been.

Switch Toolbox is the only tool I'm aware of that supports playback of brlans.

As far as I know, downloading and installing each mod is the main method for the modding-openmw lists.

There is a tool to try to automate game modlist installs called Wabbajack [1]. It was briefly discussed on the openmw forums [2]. I'm not sure if anyone has tried further to get the modding-openmw lists working with it. I have never used Wabbajack, so I don't know too much other than it exists. It still seems to have extra requirements according to the post, including a premium NexusMods account if you don't want to manually download everything.

Just as I typed all the above I saw a mention of portmod [3] in the modding-openmw guide about mod managers. Seems it's like Gentoo's portage, but for game mods. I see it has some meta packages for modding-openmw in their ebuild-like repository [4], but I don't think any of the big lists have been updated in awhile. Also, there again seems to be issues with it auto downloading from NexusMods mentioned in the issue tracker. Nevertheless, it looks to be an interesting project.

[1] https://github.com/wabbajack-tools/wabbajack

[2] https://forum.openmw.org/viewtopic.php?t=7581

[3] https://gitlab.com/portmod/portmod

[4] https://portmod.gitlab.io/openmw-mods/meta-momw/

There haven't been a need to mess around with mod load order since at least 2019.

https://github.com/wabbajack-tools/wabbajack/releases/tag/3.0.5.0 download for 3.0.5.0

Wabbajack is the name of an installer to simplify installing mods, in these days of a modded skyrim install having potentially hundreds of mods totalling more gigs than the entire primary game install.

All previous releases are readily available on the Wabbajack Github Releases page: https://github.com/wabbajack-tools/wabbajack/releases

To do that: download https://github.com/wabbajack-tools/wabbajack/releases/download/2.5.3.28/2.5.3.28.zip. Unzip to a folder called 2.5.3.28 inside your directory where wabbjack.exe is located. Run 2.5.3.28\wabbajack.exe

You can also check out Wabbajack which is used with this modding guide. This should hopefully set you on the right path. Pre-Skyrim modding typically uses 3rd party modding software that is more in-depth and configurable than MCM to the detriment of being accessible to those less inclined to spend time setting up mods.