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How to Skin the Supercard Menu - Discontinued

Started by arcc, October 11, 2006, 06:31:34 PM

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ZAFDeltaForce

That should be the skin from the new Supercard Rumble series.

arcc

Quote from: "ghaxaq"I saw this pic


Anyone knows from where to get it?
I would really like to try this but I just dont want to risk, since there are only few supercards around here and it takes ages to get one.

I would say that is either a mock-up or possibly the new menu for the SC rumble, simply due to the fact that the little angle in the very top right hand corner is impossible to do with this method. It would be pretty easy to produce something simular however.

754boy

Cool info, gonna try and skin me SC CF today!  8)

EDIT: Sweet, it worked for me! This is kool  8)

pixelk

I created a small app to create the font bitmap automaticaly, using your TTF fonts :
http://pixel.k.free.fr/DSFG/index.htm
It produces a font.bmp according to the font and offset you choose, you only have to convert it to png.
No every TrueTypeFont make a good supercard font, just try some.
The Flash Demo should explain the usage pretty quickly.
size=9]NDS 1.0 - SC CF Firmware 1.63, Software 2.56, Flashme v0.6[/size]
[size=9]SC DS 12/29 - Sandisk 1G µSD[/size]
[size=10]Author of NDScrc, the easy way of sorting your roms.[/size]

arcc

SCZv2

The guide has been updated to v2 with new, easier to use batch files by Nickman and some additional revisions and repacked in a .rar to cut down on download size a lot.

Thanks again to Nickman for his hard work on the new scripts.

I also started to add a F.A.Q., so if anyone has questions, I will be sure to add them to the guide.


Quote from: "pixelk"I created a small app to create the font bitmap automaticaly, using your TTF fonts :
http://pixel.k.free.fr/DSFG/index.htm
It produces a font.bmp according to the font and offset you choose, you only have to convert it to png.
No every TrueTypeFont make a good supercard font, just try some.
The Flash Demo should explain the usage pretty quickly.

Wow, awesome, Pixelk! Excellent work! Can I add that to the lump file?

Devil_Spawn


Romiress

:/ Continuing problems - when I get to flashmp.nds and try and run it, it doesn't find any of the options, and hitting L + R + any direction does nothing. Any help?
=[__]=] DS Lite Polar White : Import white Keys Factory Carrying Case
[+[__]::] SuperCard SD Mini : 1 GB Kingston x80 MiniSD
1 GB Kingston x80 Taiwan MicroSD
Soon:
Supercard DS(One)

arcc

Quote from: "Devil_Spawn"do u need to change the .bmp to a .png?

Yeah, you got to convert it to a png. Most fonts need to be touched up in the graphics editor anyway since you need to reduce them to two color black and white.

A quick font I made to test out Font Grapher:




Quote from: "Romiress":/ Continuing problems - when I get to flashmp.nds and try and run it, it doesn't find any of the options, and hitting L + R + any direction does nothing. Any help?

Hmmm...I am affraid I don't know what to to do for ya, if it's not showing up at all. Is your card pretty new or old? Did you use the upgrade.scu from firmware 1.61? I seem to recall hearing that it was an oddball update that did something to the supercard, which may be what you need. If so, try rolling back to 1.61, then reflashing 1.63, then finally give your skinned version a go.

Lotti

http://lotti.palib.info/PAFont 0.5.zip

http://lotti.palib.info/PAFont 0.5 Source.zip

use this instead of manual creation font :)

modify the sources to make a compatible version with supercard :)

Devil_Spawn

you wouldnt be able to fit PAlib into the supercards firmware with everything else AFAIK, and also it is easy with font grapher

Lotti

Quote from: "Devil_Spawn"you wouldnt be able to fit PAlib into the supercards firmware with everything else AFAIK, and also it is easy with font grapher

infact you must use this program ONLY for dump a font and the adjust the output image to fit supercard skin.

or you can change the source code of this app to make a "perfect dump" for supercard skin ^_^

pixelk

Quote from: "arcc"

Quote from: "pixelk"I created a small app to create the font bitmap automaticaly, using your TTF fonts :
http://pixel.k.free.fr/DSFG/index.htm
It produces a font.bmp according to the font and offset you choose, you only have to convert it to png.
No every TrueTypeFont make a good supercard font, just try some.
The Flash Demo should explain the usage pretty quickly.

Wow, awesome, Pixelk! Excellent work! Can I add that to the lump file?

You're welcome.
size=9]NDS 1.0 - SC CF Firmware 1.63, Software 2.56, Flashme v0.6[/size]
[size=9]SC DS 12/29 - Sandisk 1G µSD[/size]
[size=10]Author of NDScrc, the easy way of sorting your roms.[/size]

pixelk

I could do a version that outputs a PNG directly if someone is interested.
size=9]NDS 1.0 - SC CF Firmware 1.63, Software 2.56, Flashme v0.6[/size]
[size=9]SC DS 12/29 - Sandisk 1G µSD[/size]
[size=10]Author of NDScrc, the easy way of sorting your roms.[/size]

ShinaKitsune

here is one i edited, nothing great but works for now :3

and then the preview


and then pink


and then the preview
b]~VisualKei J-Rock Fanatic~[/b]
Electric Blue DS "phat" + supercard minisd + 1gb kingston
Coral Pink DSLite + supercard microsd + 1gb a-data

pixelk

size=9]NDS 1.0 - SC CF Firmware 1.63, Software 2.56, Flashme v0.6[/size]
[size=9]SC DS 12/29 - Sandisk 1G µSD[/size]
[size=10]Author of NDScrc, the easy way of sorting your roms.[/size]