GridLauncher 3DSFlow Project (Box Cover Banners)

Hey guys! I wanted to share an idea I had when playing around with the new Full screen banners feature of the Grid Launcher. I've already made all the games I have installed and from gamecards but with some help we could expand this to have many other games until the point we all have all of our games boxes on the title menu like we used to have on the Wii days with WiiFlow. Hope you like this idea as much as I do. ​

NEW! Download covers for your installed digital games directly from your 3ds with the new 3DSFlow cover downloader by @ihaveamac

3DSFlow cover downloader​

Simple way to turn your artwork into a box cover banner

Box cover online generator​

Spoiler: Creating covers using the online generator video

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How to get the proper title id for games you don't own.​

Spoiler: How to get the proper title id from games you don't own.

1. Search for the game you're working on http://www.3dsdb.com/ Make sure it's the correct region and if it's eshop of card version.
2. Copy the title id of your game from http://www.3dsdb.com/
3. Go to this website http://www.binaryhexconverter.com/hex-to-decimal-converter and convert the title id you copied from hexadecimal value to decimal value and the decimal result is the title id the gridlauncher uses.

How to manually make a box cover banner (Noob proof guide)
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Spoiler: How to manually make a box cover banner

I'm using paint.net in this guide but any photo editor should work.
1. To have a uniform look you'll need to download the 3DSFlow template. (Right click and save as)

2. Download a box art for your game and crop only the artwork without the Nintendo 3DS logo.

You should have an image like this

4. Resize the image to 186x186

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5. Paste your box art on top of the template and align it. It should fit perfectly on top of the black square shape.

6. Now you must name correctly your image but first you must look for your game's title id.

1. On your 3DS start up the grid launcher and tap the home icon on the bottom left of the bottom screen.
2. Move your cursor to highlight your desired game and then press select.
3. On the top screen you'll find out your game's title id (The title id varies
   from region)

7. Now that you have your title id save the image titleid-banner-fullscreen in my case I'm using Kid Icarus Uprising US so I'll name it 1125899907039488-banner-fullscreen and save it as a .png

8. Place your image on your 3ds SD card in this directory SD:gridlauncher/titlebanners/

I know it sounds kind of complicated but once you try it out it will only take you a couple of minutes. Here I'll leave a little video of 2 box art I made.

How to make a homebrew box cover banner
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Spoiler: How to make a homebrew box cover banner

1. To have a uniform look you'll need to download the 3DSFlow template. (Right click and save as)

2. Please follow steps from 2. to 5. of the How to make a box cover banner (Noob proof guide) above and come back when you are done.

3. Save the image with the homebrew .3dsx name of your homebrew app and place it next to your homebrew files. In my case, with Killerman Ghost Buster I'll rename templatehb-banner-fullscreen with the same name of my homebrew .3dsx file where the templatehb goes and that leaves me with killerman_ghost_buster-banner-fullscreen. Save your image as a .png and place it within your homebrew app's folder.

Example directory:
SD:gridlauncher/folders/HBL Games/killerman_ghost_buster/killerman_ghost_buster-banner-fullscreen.png

SD:3ds/killerman_ghost_buster/killerman_ghost_buster-banner-fullscreen.png

I already created 40 banners for my US 3ds. Title id varies from region so if you use another banner from another region you'll need to rename the titles id to match your region. I'll make a list with all the game covers and regions soon but you can see them or download them on the bottom of this post.

Help wanted!!

This is not a release!! this is a project and I hope to get help from you guys. How cool would it be to have all of your games and homebrew apps with a uniform boxart? I think it would look awesome!

Anyone can contribute!

• Making and sharing new homebrew covers using the templates to expand the library!
• Helping out with the pending requests (List below)
• Providing missing titles ids (List below)

Spoiler: Pending Requests

AUS Games
Legend of Zelda
Zelda II
Link's Awakening DX
Mario Bros. Deluxe
If the games have ratings (Which they probably do) I would like them in the Australian Pegi ratings please!

Spoiler: Missing title ids

Stella Glow EUR
Shantae and the Pirates Curse JAP
Shantae Gameboy Color virtual console USA

Screenshots:

Spoiler: Screenshots

Download:
3DSFlow Website

Contributors​

Spoiler: Contributors

• zorglub07​
• Larsenv​
• ihaveamac​
• Gocario​
• supercarotte​
• reymas101​
• Xenosaiga​
• superstarxalien1​
• ElyosOfTheAbyss
• Jack_Sparrow​
• Bobesh8​
• Filo97​
• Stalls​
• Shaker78​
• Baccabechoppin​
• BurningDesire​
• wowwow​
• TurtleP​
• Jwiz33​
• Konno Ryo​
• Favna​
• Sterillo​
• xplay10​

Thanks for sharing!!​

Let us know any request you may have!

Useful links

Spoiler: Useful links

Grid launcher thread: http://gbatemp.net/threads/release-homebrew-launcher-with-grid-layout.397527/

Help by contributing new covers at http://www.gametdb.com/

Here's a useful link @Xenosaiga provided with many game covers.
http://www.nintendolife.com/3ds/covers
If the cover you're looking for is not there remember that google is your friend.

Link provided by @supercarotte where you can find all the eshop games covers
https://www.nintendo.fr

Another thread with cool banners for the grid launcher: http://gbatemp.net/threads/mashers-grid-launcher-homebrew-app-banners.403632/

Official wiki page with all the info about the launcher and banners: https://github.com/mashers/3ds_hb_menu/wiki/Banners

Thanks to @mashers for the grid launcher and it's great features!
Thanks to @ihaveamac for the awesome 3DSFlow website and 3DSFlow cover downloader.
Thanks to @supercarotte for the amazing new templates and 3DSFlow logo.
Thanks to @Gocario & @ihaveamac for the box cover online generator.
Thanks to @zorglub07 and @Larsenv for their incredible work with almost all the 3ds game covers available on their amazing site http://www.gametdb.com/​

 

[ElyosOfTheAbyss]

NSMB2 AUS

 

[JJTapia19]

NSMB2 AUS

That yellow box looks great! added.

 

[wowwow]

more covers
all 10 GBA embassador games done
shantae covers i made them in the eshop and 3ds template and in 3 covers
one with the most common cover (USA ID)
other almost the same as the japan cover (USA ID)
and the japan cover without mods (didnt find ID)
also the shantae GBC virtual console (didnt find ID)

 

[JJTapia19]

more covers
all 10 GBA embassador games done
shantae covers i made them in the eshop and 3ds template and in 3 covers
one with the most common cover (USA ID)
other almost the same as the japan cover (USA ID)
and the japan cover without mods (didnt find ID)
also the shantae GBC virtual console (didnt find ID)

Thanks for your great contributions.

 

[Shaker78]

The first four covers from this post should be replaced with this one:

 

[JJTapia19]

The first four covers from this post should be replaced with this one:

If it's because of the title id's I notice it and fixed them for you.

 

[Gyonosaur]

Maybe a bit off topic, but could this be done with emulator games as well? Could we create shortcuts for, say, NES games and launch them with an emulator using this type of thing?

 

[Shaker78]

If it's because of the title id's I notice it and fixed them for you.

Thank you

23 new covers:

 

[Gocario]

@Gocario I noticed you forked the Github repository; if you want, I could just add you directly to it. note that changes to the repo aren't uploaded to the website automatically.

Oh yes, it could be easier.

 

[supercarotte]

Okay, so texturing definitely isn't my thing Here's what I've done so far, what do you guys/girls think about it (Color scheme, effects, design, new idea, I can do nearly anything) ?



(small bugs due to the upload I guess, these should be fixed soon).
Btw @ihaveamac, I'm not sure you'd like to host a >1MB banner. What size would suit you best ?

 

[leonmagnus99]

guys i would like to ask you how many of you actually use the Homebrew menu to play your installed CIA's off it ? cause i know this sweet GridLauncher is based off HB and well is it stable to run Cia's off it ?

do some of you guys actually use this over your usual e.g RxTools'emuNAND< usual homescreen of emuNAND or do you run the Homebrew launcher cia off you emuNAND to access your installed Cia's on HB and play them there !?

 

[SomeGamer]

Okay, so texturing definitely isn't my thing Here's what I've done so far, what do you guys/girls think about it (Color scheme, effects, design, new idea, I can do nearly anything) ?

View attachment 33011

(small bugs due to the upload I guess, these should be fixed soon).
Btw @ihaveamac, I'm not sure you'd like to host a >1MB banner. What size would suit you best ?

Looks great! Maybe you could add a little blue tint to the boxes in the background.

 

[JJTapia19]

Thank you

23 new covers:

Awesome! I wonder how do make so many covers so fast?

guys i would like to ask you how many of you actually use the Homebrew menu to play your installed CIA's off it ? cause i know this sweet GridLauncher is based off HB and well is it stable to run Cia's off it ?

do some of you guys actually use this over your usual e.g RxTools'emuNAND< usual homescreen of emuNAND or do you run the Homebrew launcher cia off you emuNAND to access your installed Cia's on HB and play them there !?

I have homemenuhax set to autoboot the grid launcher and use pasta cfw. Since I have autoboot once I launch pasta it takes me back to the gridlauncher this time without signature checks so once I enter the title launcher I see all my installed cias. Some games don't work but that's only if they are not compatible with Hans or region4. What I do is to test them and if the game doesn't work I hide it from showing up on the title menu in the grid launcher settings. I spend most of the time on the gridlauncher but when I want to play some hans incompatible games or want to play online a game that requires an update then I have to go to the 3ds home menu and launch it from there.

Okay, so texturing definitely isn't my thing Here's what I've done so far, what do you guys/girls think about it (Color scheme, effects, design, new idea, I can do nearly anything) ?

View attachment 33011

(small bugs due to the upload I guess, these should be fixed soon).
Btw @ihaveamac, I'm not sure you'd like to host a >1MB banner. What size would suit you best ?

It looks really cool. I like the color scheme, design and effects it haves. The red color of the 3 in the logo goes well with black and grey.

 

[ihaveahax]

Btw @ihaveamac, I'm not sure you'd like to host a >1MB banner. What size would suit you best ?

probably not because that's too much for one image here. but don't scale it down yourself.

 

[supercarotte]

Okay, so texturing definitely isn't my thing Here's what I've done so far, what do you guys/girls think about it (Color scheme, effects, design, new idea, I can do nearly anything) ?

View attachment 33011

(small bugs due to the upload I guess, these should be fixed soon).
Btw @ihaveamac, I'm not sure you'd like to host a >1MB banner. What size would suit you best ?

Okay, so new version for my logo :



Smoothed the logo, redid the reflection effect and added a bit of blue to the covers tint. I hope this one is better, but tell me what you think about it.

 

[JJTapia19]

Okay, so new version for my logo :

View attachment 33043

Smoothed the logo, redid the reflection effect and added a bit of blue to the covers tint. I hope this one is better, but tell me what you think about it.

Imo I think it's perfect.

 

[dark_samus3]

Okay, so new version for my logo :

View attachment 33043

Smoothed the logo, redid the reflection effect and added a bit of blue to the covers tint. I hope this one is better, but tell me what you think about it.

Looks really nice

 

[JJTapia19]

Today I didn't have too much time to work with because of work but I did some new covers. Good night! I'll try to do more tomorrow.

 

[TurtleP]

Got bored. Did this for my game, Space Fruit:

 

[leonmagnus99]

@JJTapia19 yo buddy ! i love your ike icon.. LOL has so much swag XD

i wanted to ask you something since you use the HB launcher all the time ! for me i have the HB cia installed in my emuNAND and just like you said my installed cias will only appear -in the hb menu- after i go into emuNAND and from there load the HB launcher, but the thing is now it doesnt always work !

i get loads of script writing on bottom screen when i launch it and it says something about X not being pressed and that it failed !

it used to work when i had it connected to the internet, but now it doesnt work at all, what do i have to do to make it work !?