Hacking New Theme for EZ-Flash Omega!

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Hoping I did this right, updated the FF folder from the ezlash git hub.
and updated it with my ui images. It seems to work fine on my
ezflash omega de on my Analogue pocket.
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@TechieSaru thanks for all your help, You're awesome good sir!!! :)

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What are all those commits, did you modified the skin system?
Also, wonder if your version uses the latest PocketNES version - EZ's one is like 10 years old iirc, and the latest commit is from 5 months ago: https://github.com/Dwedit/PocketNES
 

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What are all those commits, did you modified the skin system?
Also, wonder if your version uses the latest PocketNES version - EZ's one is like 10 years old iirc, and the latest commit is from 5 months ago: https://github.com/Dwedit/PocketNES
I just used the most updated files from the ezflash github, and added that to TechieSaru's github files
 

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I just used the most updated files from the ezflash github, and added that to TechieSaru's github files
EZ-Flash only modified GBApatch.c, ezkernelnew.c and helpwindow.c - besides adding a new fatfs version. TechieSaru also modified GBApatch.c and ezkernelnew.c, amongst other files. What did you do with that? I can't seem to figure it out yet.

The amount of commits make it a bit overwhelming to figure out, but when I found the commit it still has me puzzled.
 

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EZ-Flash only modified GBApatch.c, ezkernelnew.c and helpwindow.c - besides adding a new fatfs version. TechieSaru also modified GBApatch.c and ezkernelnew.c, amongst other files. What did you do with that? I can't seem to figure it out yet.

The amount of commits make it a bit overwhelming to figure out, but when I found the commit it still has me puzzled.
It looks as though f3bandit was editing the source files on their PC locally and each edit was pushed as a commit resulting in the incoherent commit history we see.
 
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EZ-Flash only modified GBApatch.c, ezkernelnew.c and helpwindow.c - besides adding a new fatfs version. TechieSaru also modified GBApatch.c and ezkernelnew.c, amongst other files. What did you do with that? I can't seem to figure it out yet.

The amount of commits make it a bit overwhelming to figure out, but when I found the commit it still has me puzzled.
I updated some images for my theme. admittedly I haven't been on github in awhile and forgot to do comments while uploading the files. so I deled them several times and reuploaded them to get thing organized a bit better. like I said I just used
Techiesaru 's git as the base. And added the newer updates from the ezflash git. but still not sure if I updated everything properly. I did what I could with the limited knowledge I have, From what I could tell was kernel or firmware related. I am not a programmer. and from what I can see alot of the code is drastically different between the pogo shell based kernel and the stock ezflash kernel. So being layman I just did what I could with what I could understand.
 

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I updated some images for my theme. admittedly I haven't been on github in awhile and forgot to do comments while uploading the files. so I deled them several times and reuploaded them to get thing organized a bit better. like I said I just used
Techiesaru 's git as the base. And added the newer updates from the ezflash git. but still not sure if I updated everything properly. I did what I could with the limited knowledge I have, From what I could tell was kernel or firmware related. I am not a programmer. and from what I can see alot of the code is drastically different between the pogo shell based kernel and the stock ezflash kernel. So being layman I just did what I could with what I could understand.
Nice! I wouldn't have been able to make as much, so congrats B-)

My way of dealing with GitHub is still just uploading files via the website, not much more than that, so maybe next time it works better for you just doing that :P
 

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Thanks! I’m adding some extra features to it as well, one thing I just finished implementing is a cleanup of the “Recently Played” screen:
  1. Removed the folder paths so only the game name is shown
  2. Added game system icons
  3. Made the screen scrollable and increased the total list size from 10 up to 64
  4. Fixed an issue with the clock showing up and overlapping the title
In terms of the design, I'm creating the theme in a 2-bit style like the original Gameboy (i.e., only 4 colors). The current style is similar to the classic Gameboy green, but I'm going to rewrite the code so that the theme can support custom palettes, similar to the way the Gameboy Color colorizes original Gameboy games. The theme is currently a "light" theme, I intend to also support a "dark" version as well.

I'm also looking at customizing the fonts, if it's possible within the GBA's memory limitations I might try to include a list of user-selectable fonts.

Once I get a little further along and have more to share, I'll start a new thread so I'm not clogging up @Sterophonick's thread here 😄.

EDIT: With some tips from Sterophonick to point me in the right direction, I managed to crack the code on generating new font files for the EZ Flash! To celebrate, I loaded up my cartridge with this fun but ridiculously unreadable font 😝

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Damn, this theme is so good... it sucks that it's been abandoned and never shared. It's great.
 
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