FTPc - An FTP Client for the Nintendo Switch

People have been tinkering around with the Nintendo switch a bunch lately, releasing novel exploits and useful homebrew apps. As of this post however, the scene is still pretty young and there are still tons of tools and functionality that have yet to be made or ported over. I was suprised to see that while there were more than three redundant FTP server apps the Homebrew App Store, no one had written an FTP client standalone app or even as an additional feature to the popular file explorer app. Personally, using the FTP server is better than having nothing at all, but it’s quite a hassle having to lug my laptop out or use my phone to initiate file transfers to my switch.

So, I decided to build a barely functional FTP client standalone app. I borrowed the UI from mtheall’s project (https://github.com/mtheall/ftpd), and hacked up ftplibpp (https://github.com/mkulke/ftplibpp) where needed. The FTP server endpoint is hardcoded and you have to manually build the NRO for now, but it will improve as time goes on. You can grab the code and compile it yourself from my github (https://github.com/keyboardclacker/ftpc-nx).