ROM Hack [Tutorial] Edit the HomeMenu

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Thank, but I have another problem (if you can help me...) whenI decompress LZ11 file with MSBT reloaded it said Done!.
But anything appears. (juste another file called with the same name of the LZ11 original file... and with the extension .bin.bin !)

I don,t understand.
It should be .bin.bin, and that (if you are decompressing the right file) can be opened with MSBT Editor Reloaded
 
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sleep_LZ.bin
You can't edit that file with MSBT Editor Reloaded as it isn't a MSBT file. As far as I am aware you are currently only able to edit that by decrypting it and then bringing it into HxD and manually finding and changing hex color values at specific offsets documented here. MSBT Editor only allows you to modify the text of the Home Menu, which is a file like ExtractedRomFS\message\US_English\menu_msbt_LZ.bin
 
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sleep_LZ.bin
I played with this a while back. You need to use a darc decompressor iirc. The best way I can put it into words is that those control the UI. GLHF playing with the textures and stuff. (tip: the background texture thing is stretched from what I could tell, but you can remove the gradient border thing easily though). I can help out some, but I would need to find old skype logs...
 
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I had the same problem. You have to edit the Part1.bat and Part2.bat, replacing where it has SystemApp.0000.00000082 with the one yours produces, which in my case (and also yours) is SystemApp.0000.00000083. Once you do that you can run Part1 again, which will produce two folders of the contents of the HomeMenu
Quoting for a new page because I had to do this as well
 
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I have a quick question regarding the Home Menu's e-manual. Would it be possible at all to replace it with either a game manual (just for the fun of it, perhaps) or replace it with an e-manual of my own? (For example, ones I have created with the official SDK)?

And if this would be possible, does anyone know where the e-manual is located? Is it in the Home Menu CIA itself, or inside another system CIA?

Thanks for any answers.
 

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I bricked the first time I tried to edit this - is there any documentation on what limitations have been discovered?

EDIT: I bricked even by only changing the "In Sleep Mode" line, ffs. For people who have successfully done this, any tips? My new text even uses 2 fewer characters than the original text.
 
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I bricked the first time I tried to edit this - is there any documentation on what limitations have been discovered?

EDIT: I bricked even by only changing the "In Sleep Mode" line, ffs. For people who have successfully done this, any tips? My new text even uses 2 fewer characters than the original text.
When I did edits, i installed an unmodified cia first (even if i didnt make an edit beforehand) then installed whatever modifications i made.
 
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I bricked the first time I tried to edit this - is there any documentation on what limitations have been discovered?

EDIT: I bricked even by only changing the "In Sleep Mode" line, ffs. For people who have successfully done this, any tips? My new text even uses 2 fewer characters than the original text.
In my experience, you need to install a fresh homemenu before installing modifications.
 

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Please explain what you mean?
You can download a fresh version of homemenu as a cia from 3DNUS, and then install that before installing a modified version of homemenu
In my experience when you install a homemenu cia it will finish the install, then the system will crash with an error once the cia install completes. Don't know if that's normal, but it happens on mine every time I do it but it always seems to be installed perfectly fine once I reboot the system.
 

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You can download a fresh version of homemenu as a cia from 3DNUS, and then install that before installing a modified version of homemenu
In my experience when you install a homemenu cia it will finish the install, then the system will crash with an error once the cia install completes. Don't know if that's normal, but it happens on mine every time I do it but it always seems to be installed perfectly fine once I reboot the system.
Where i change the text of the screen before power off?
 

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Where i change the text of the screen before power off?
Once you use part1.bat, the file you want to edit will be ExtractedRomFS\message\*Region*_*Language*\menu_msbt_LZ.bin
For me it was ExtractedRomFS\message\US_English\menu_msbt_LZ.bin
You'll want to download MSBT Editor Reloaded, then use Tools->Manage LZ11->Decompress on that file, which will produce a file called menu_msbt_LZ.bin.bin. You can then open that file using File->Open to start editing.

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

Just as a note it contains ALL of the text in the homemenu, so you will have to search for what you want to edit as there is a lot
 
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Once you use part1.bat, the file you want to edit will be ExtractedRomFS\message\*Region*_*Language*\menu_msbt_LZ.bin
For me it was ExtractedRomFS\message\US_English\menu_msbt_LZ.bin
You'll want to download , then use Tools->Manage LZ11->Decompress on that file, which will produce a file called menu_msbt_LZ.bin.bin. You can then open that file using File->Open to start editing.

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

Just as a note it contains ALL of the text in the homemenu, so you will have to search for what you want to edit as there is a lot
what is MSBT Editor Reloaded?
 

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this supposed to happen after running Part1.bat?
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