NX GameHide (Switch sysmodule)

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Hide and restore games in the Nintendo Switch HOME menu through Tesla.<br> Games and saves are kept.

Installation · Usage · Hiding scope · How it works · Uninstallation · Docs and feedback

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Installation

Requires Atmosphère, Tesla Menu and nx-ovlloader.

Tested on HOS 22.5.0 / Atmosphère 1.11.2.

1. Download NX-GameHide-v<version>.zip from Releases.
2. Extract it to the SD card root.
3. Fully reboot the console.

Usage

Close the game before changing its visibility.

1. Open GameHide in Tesla.
2. Select a game and press A to hide or show it.

Choose Show all games to clear the hidden list and show all games.

Hiding scope

The following results were verified on a console. Games remain hidden after a full reboot.

Interface	Visibility while hidden
HOME game list	Not shown
Groups	Not shown
Settings → Data Management → Software Details	Not shown
Settings → Data Management → Delete Save Data	Shown
Other launchers	Not tested

If you open Groups while a game is hidden, you must manually add it back to its groups after showing it again. Its group membership is preserved if you do not open Groups while it is hidden.

How it works

NX-GameHide uses Atmosphère's MITM mechanism to intercept HOME (qlaunch) queries to the system service ns:am2. The backend filters the returned game records using the hidden list.

┌────────────────────────────┐                ┌────────────────────────────┐
│Tesla / GameHide            │───── save ────▶│Hidden list                 │
│Select B to hide            │                │hidden_games.txt: B         │
└─────────────┬──────────────┘                └─────────────┬──────────────┘
              │ request reload                              │ read list
              │         ┌───────────────────────────────────┘
              ▼         ▼
┌────────────────────────────┐                ┌────────────────────────────┐
│NX-GameHide backend         │─── A, C ──────▶│HOME / qlaunch              │
│Filter out B                │─── refresh ───▶│Show A, C                   │
└─────────────┬──────────────┘                └────────────────────────────┘
              ▲
              │ Raw records: A, B, C
              │
┌─────────────┴──────────────┐
│System service              │
│ns:am2                      │
└────────────────────────────┘

Tesla saves the selected game IDs to config/nx-gamehide/hidden_games.txt, then asks the backend to reload the list and notify HOME to refresh. Showing a game removes its ID from the list. Game files and saves remain untouched; only queries from HOME are intercepted.

Uninstallation

Delete the following file and directory from the SD card, then fully reboot the console. Games reappear in HOME.

• switch/.overlays/nx-gamehide.ovl
• atmosphere/contents/00FF48474D000001

Keep config/nx-gamehide to preserve the hidden list, or delete it to remove the saved settings.

Docs and feedback

• Troubleshooting
• Building
• Report an issue

License

GPL-2.0-only. Third-party notices are included in the installation package. See Building for source and dependency details.