Skins for Supercard DS One

Jdbye · February 11, 2007, 11:49:56 PM

Quote from: "kenfrenzy"looks like the blacking out of the warning/error screen failed... try patching again.

That won't work, since the error screen is already removed from the "part1" and "part3" files that come with the patcher...

EDIT: Here you go, a Vista theme by me

I think it looks pretty good, but it took me a long while to make it

Put scshell folder on microSD, replacing files

http://scdev.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=69058#69058 <-- Click link to go to topic

EDIT2: Here's a wallpaper.png for you too :razz:

kenfrenzy · February 11, 2007, 11:51:24 PM

i meant... take the original msforsc.nds file and repatch it with the patcher before it was removed, because there must have been an error in the first time you tried patching it.

Jdbye · February 11, 2007, 11:53:27 PM

Quote from: "kenfrenzy"i meant... take the original msforsc.nds file and repatch it with the patcher before it was removed, because there must have been an error in the first time you tried patching it.

You don't take the original msforsc.nds file, it's included with the patcher in the files "part1" and "part3".

Also, please check my last post, uploaded a skin

EDIT: I was wondering, how do you make the png image 4BPP? Photoshop doesn't have any option for it from what i can see :?

kenfrenzy · February 12, 2007, 12:00:25 AM

hah sorry... i dunno why i said what i did.. confused it with another project im working on that requires an original msforsc file.

As for the png image, i just did a save for web using png 8 and it worked... png 24 will probably work too, but the file size was smaller using less colors, which might impact the ability to patch.

Jdbye · February 12, 2007, 12:08:12 AM

Quote from: "kenfrenzy"hah sorry... i dunno why i said what i did.. confused it with another project im working on that requires an original msforsc file.

As for the png image, i just did a save for web using png 8 and it worked... png 24 will probably work too, but the file size was smaller using less colors, which might impact the ability to patch.

Yeah, in the start i had large problems getting the file size small enough, it always became 30 kb, but with save for web, png 8, 256 colors, it ended up as 7 kb

Doesn't help when i can't use it though :x

EDIT: I found out why it didn't work. There was no files\shell folder in the patcher directory, so it didn't patch properly.

kenfrenzy · February 12, 2007, 12:29:43 AM

heh, that'll do it.

Even if your png files are too big, try it anyway. My file was i think 20KB and it still worked.

Jdbye · February 12, 2007, 12:35:10 AM

Screenshots of my skin:

Looks like crap on the pictures, much better when you see it on your DS, sorry :razz:

Look a few posts up for skin download

jmr · February 12, 2007, 02:48:31 AM

tuta · February 12, 2007, 02:53:38 AM

thx ratx I look forward to a more improved version so we can put images that are bigger that 12kb

jmr · February 12, 2007, 02:59:18 AM

you can!!
the image ive just used is 27.9kb & it worked
i done one last nite that was 18kb as well

tuta · February 12, 2007, 05:02:25 AM

Quote from: "ratx"http://l33t.spod.org/ratx/DS/SC/misc/scone_skinner-0.1.zip

This is a batch script and utilities to patch your own wallpaper into the latest english msforsc.nds. It basically replaces the existing sclogo.b15 with your own file. It also removes the bootup error screen. The limitations are that your wallpaper.png has to be less than or around 12k as a png. Please read the readme.txt

thats strange coz if you read this ratx says u can only have images below 12k

and I made an image thats 12.3kb but I keep getting an error it says
"wallpaper.bin.fixed not found"

ratx · February 12, 2007, 05:09:02 AM

The final wallpaper.bin has to be around 12k, the original wallpaper.png gets turned into a b15 file then embedded in an imfs filesystem / compressed etc - this is the wallpaper.bin.

Sorry I originally worded it badly. The 12k limitation won't be going away using this method I'm afraid but the chances are the next firmware will be skinnable anyway.

fabri22 · February 12, 2007, 05:22:19 AM

I would like to apply the patch to MSFORSC.NDS vers. 1.0
IMHO it has a better homebrew support (e.g. flipbook)

How to get out a part1 & part3 from it ?

Alternatively i can extract its arm9.bin with dslazy...but i dont know how to get out the sclogo.b15.

Please help me... and sorry for my bad english.

ratx · February 12, 2007, 05:32:32 AM

fabri22; I started to look at version 1.0 but it might be slightly different in file layout. I may be able to write a generic patcher that generates the part1 and part3. A hex editor is your friend if you want to try and generate them yourself.

tuta: sounds like wallpaper_fix can't fix your imfs file.. can you post the fullout put of the go.bat?

fabri22 · February 12, 2007, 05:44:31 AM

Quote from: "ratx"fabri22; I started to look at version 1.0 but it might be slightly different in file layout. I may be able to write a generic patcher that generates the part1 and part3. A hex editor is your friend if you want to try and generate them yourself.

Thank you ratx, i'll be waiting for generic patcher ... cause my poor
knowledge about hex editors :oops: