osxfuse VS quest-sidenoder

Install macFUSE, thank me later: https://osxfuse.github.io

I didn't exactly use any 'tutorial'. Assumming you can already SSH to the target machine, you just need to install both these pkgs then reboot to 1TR Recovery Mode and choosing Reduced Security and choose to enable Kernel Extension and then reboot again goto Security & Privacy and Allow the extension, and that's it you can now use it.

Yeah, FUSE is Linux only. But for completeness, for macs there is macFUSE, and for Windows there is winfsp. Both of these have fewer filesystems than FUSE, and I've used neither so I don't know how well they work.

https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/wiki/List-of-macFUSE-File...

https://winfsp.dev/doc/Known-File-Systems/

Weird. Where did you download (lat/new)est MacFuse from? https://osxfuse.github.io/ I hope!

I lead a project that included shipping a filesystem driver and a virtual disk on Windows.

What I did to learn the lower-level APIs, and perform initial testing on the driver, was write a "mirror" drive. The user-mode code pointed to a folder on disk, the driver made a virtual disk drive, and all reads and writes in the virtual disk drive went to the mirror folder.

On Windows, you can implement something like that using Dokany, Dokan, or Winfsp. On linux, there's the Fuse API. On Mac, there's MacFUSE.

Even if you don't do a "mirror" drive, understanding the callbacks that libraries like Dokany, Dokan, Winfsp, and Fuse do helps you understand how IO happens in the driver. Many IO methods provided in popular languages provide abstractions above what the OS does. (For example, the Windows kernel has no concept of the "Stream" that's in your C# program. The "Stream"'s Position property is purely a construct within the .Net framework.)

https://dokan-dev.github.io/

https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany

https://osxfuse.github.io/

Another place to start is the OS's documentation itself. For example, you can start with Window's CreateFileA function. This typically is what gets called "under the hood" in most programming languages when you open or create a file: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/...

"FUSE-T is a kext-less implementation of FUSE for macOS that uses NFS v4 local server instead of a kernel extension. The main motivation for this project is to replace macfuse (https://osxfuse.github.io/) that implements its own kext to make fuse work. With each version of macOS it's getting harder and harder to load kernel extensions. Apple strongly discourages it and, for this reason, software distributions that include macfuse are very difficult to install. Additionally, the macfuse kext is unstable, may cause frequent system crashes and kernel lock-ups. Given those limitations many software publishers are unable to use macfuse anymore. FUSE-T doesn't make use of kernel extension, it implements its own userspace server that converts between FUSE protocol and NFS calls and let macOS mount NFS volume instead of a kernel filesystem."

MacFuse (ntfs-3g) and a Foolproof way of getting it working via Homebrew.

macos doesn’t support many Linux file system formats. You’ll have to use something like macFUSE https://osxfuse.github.io/

as to your advice - a) I have macFUSE, not osxFUSE - is there a difference? b) I installed https://github.com/vKolerts/quest-sidenoder - is that right? c) sidenoder says rclone 1.55.1 is properly installed - do I need to get another? d) I thought this at first, but checking sidenoder settings, everything seems to be correct

And since you were able to see messed up mirrors sounds like you followed everything right to install but in case you need to reinstall to the newest version on the new repo for the directions on the old repo here herehttps://github.com/vKolerts/quest-sidenoder#run-precompiled-release-on-linux

https://github.com/vKolerts/quest-sidenoder try this and go down

If you want you could check the source code from the sideloaders, github.com/nerdunit/androidsideloader for my sideloader, https://github.com/vKolerts/quest-sidenoder/ sidenoder which everyone recommends, and for loader you could just dotpeek/dnspy/ilspy it

Maybe something is wrong with his thumbnails server, I doubt it's intentional. If it's still like that in a few days log an issue on the GitHub. It's possible he isn't aware. https://github.com/vKolerts/quest-sidenoder

Yes it's possible. But as the other poster said sidenoder is easier for mac. It also has the same gamelist as rookies. Fql is slightly different but as of right now the gamelist isn't different enough to make the extra effort worth it imo. Probably 85% of more of the games on sidenoder and fql are the same (same version even) and sidenoder and rookies has the exact same gamelist since they use the same mirrors . Some games won't auto install on sidenoder and will require manual steps though. The more time goes on the more likely the gamelist will be different (unless vrp just grabs all ffas releases which seems to be happening) but until then Quest Sidenoder is probably the easiest and best option for Mac and Linux users. Here's the install directions

If you still have issues after that, you could always use rclone to download and there's a sideload section under homebrew I believe with easy ways to sideload. They aren't as good as Rookies but should get you started at least and if you still have issues could at least help you pinpoint that the issue is actually rookies. Autoinstall or quest app manager work the same but without the frills and features rookies has. There's also Quest Sidenoder which is a little closer to rookies and allows you to download and install on the same device and uses the same mirrors as rookies/rclone. Here's the install instructions they can be a little hard to find on the GitHub. Hope you figure out your issue, if you do please report what works for you. Sorry for the info overload

The Mac version from the files and faqs bot is out of date and doesn't show remotes anymore. Use quest sidenoder for quest native games.

Well give it a whirl, do both just to make sure. Close rookies kill adb in task manager and then restart your PC. If you still have issues after that it may be time to hit your friend up again. Thanks for the well wishes, hope you get you're rookie working. If not you could always check out Quest Sidenoder. Very similar to rookies and even uses the same mirrors. It just doesn't have all of the features Rookies does (it won't AUTOinstall some games and doesn't recognize upgrade in place issues) and is usually only suggested for Mac and Linux since Rookies doesn't work on those OSs. But it does support PC as well. The main benefit, at least in your case, is you get it and the Install directions right on GitHub. I would uninstall vrpe from control panel though if you go that route because rclone gui causes mounting issues with sidenoder on PC sometimes. Best of luck