Hacking [Theme] Open Source DSTWO and DSONE Skin openDS

gemliu · Jan 8, 2018

Hi there,
I made an open source theme for SuperCards DSONE and DSTWO, R4i / Wood and YSMenu. It's on github. Feel free to use it however you want. It's completely free of any copyright loaded content. And it's a perfect way for you to make your own theme. All source files (mainly SVG) included.

openDS on GitHub

openDS Wiki

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giofrida · Jan 15, 2018

Hi. I really like this theme. However, I must use RetroGameFan's YSMenu on my dsone to achieve the best game compatibility. Does this theme work with that launcher?

gemliu · Jan 17, 2018

Sorry, never tried it. Will have a look at it after my exams.

gemliu · Jan 18, 2018

giofrida said:
Hi. I really like this theme. However, I must use RetroGameFan's YSMenu on my dsone to achieve the best game compatibility. Does this theme work with that launcher?

Hey, had some time. Hope you like it

Added a preview to the first post.

Scarlet · Jan 18, 2018

Lush theme, always thought the default launcher was a little dated, but could never be bothered to change it. Think I'll throw this on later, thanks!

gemliu · Jan 18, 2018

Improved it a little bit. Would be great if someone could test the YSMenu theme on real hardware as I don't use it.

giofrida · Jan 19, 2018

Hi
Theme was not loading on my card. In order to use it I had to edit the YSMenu.ini file that came with my YSMenu setup and had to convert YSMenu1,2.bmp to have 24 bit depth, otherwise both text and images did not load at all.
After that theme loads up, but the cartridge is not aligned with the game icon (see picture), and I can't seem to find a way to move the graphics.

HamBone41801 · Jan 19, 2018

gemliu said:
Hi there,
I made an open source theme for SuperCards DSONE and DSTWO, R4i / Wood and YSMenu. It's on github. Feel free to use it however you want. It's completely free of any copyright loaded content. And it's a perfect way for you to make your own theme. All source files (mainly SVG) included.

openDS on GitHub

thats pretty cool. do you plan on supporting the ak's menu?

gemliu · Jan 19, 2018

giofrida said:
Hi
Theme was not loading on my card. In order to use it I had to edit the YSMenu.ini file that came with my YSMenu setup and had to convert YSMenu1,2.bmp to have 24 bit depth, otherwise both text and images did not load at all.
After that theme loads up, but the cartridge is not aligned with the game icon (see picture), and I can't seem to find a way to move the graphics.

Okay, thank you. I used DS Skin Maker 0.48 to make the YSMenu.ini and to align the image - I guess I'll have to try another one. Thanks for testing.

Please try again with this image - I made this one prior using DS Skin Maker:

https://github.com/gembutterfly/nds...mmit/6d2f7aba5b43040e62546bf81cf945b819526068

gemliu · Jan 19, 2018

giofrida said:
Hi
Theme was not loading on my card. In order to use it I had to edit the YSMenu.ini file that came with my YSMenu setup and had to convert YSMenu1,2.bmp to have 24 bit depth, otherwise both text and images did not load at all.
After that theme loads up, but the cartridge is not aligned with the game icon (see picture), and I can't seem to find a way to move the graphics.

What exactly did you edit in YSMenu.ini? And all other cards use 16 bit. Good to know that YSMenu wants 24 bit.

HamBone41801 said:
thats pretty cool. do you plan on supporting the ak's menu?

Do you mean Acekard? Aren't Wood and Acekard themes the same? Please try the included Wood theme.

gemliu · Jan 19, 2018

Update: Pushed a new version of the YSMenu skin. Please try and report

giofrida · Jan 19, 2018

Thank you. Texts are loading up properly but there's a problem in how bitmaps are coded:

After having converted them using photoshop they load up with the correct colors:

P.s: I have a N3DS. Does these artifacts appear to you too?

After pressing HOME button the image appear normally on both screens.

gemliu · Jan 19, 2018

Thanks. I have no Photoshop as I work under Linux. GIMP saves 16, 24 and 32 bit - but none of it does work.

I found this about YSMenu, but have no idea what it means.

"Skin : 256x192 24-bit depth 15-bit colour .bmp [YSMenu1.bmp for top screen and YSMenu2.bmp for bottom screen, placed in your TTMenu folder]"

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

Okay, figured it out. YSMenu and TTMenu need 24 Bit Bitmaps without color space information. In Gimp:

"File" > "Export" > "Filename.bmp" > "Advanced Options" > "24 bit R8 G8 B8" > "Compatibility Options" > "Don't write Color Space Information"

Edit 3:

Finally got it right! It's on github now, please try - everything should be perfect now

gemliu · Jan 19, 2018

giofrida said:
P.s: I have a N3DS. Does these artifacts appear to you too?

After pressing HOME button the image appear normally on both screens.

No, not here. Once had this problem with a bad .nds file. Getting a new one solved it.

giofrida · Jan 19, 2018

That's perfect now. Thank you

gemliu · Jan 20, 2018

Added some emulator icons for consistency reasons

kaosnews · Jan 25, 2018

Excellent skin! Thank you very much

romevi · Jun 4, 2020

Just stumped upon this. Much better than the stock skins. Will try to tinker to get a good bottom screen for the Text layout. Thanks so much for this!

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