Finding lost Original R4 themes from r4ds.com

[SylverReZ]

I'm currently looking for any official themes for the Original R4 that were originally hosted on their website for a short period of time, until they were replaced by the default "calendar" themes ranging by month that can be found in the original kernel before version 1.1x.

EDIT: found!

In one of the reviews that I found for the R4, there are photos for a Christmas esque theme with decorations for the options. Yet, the download has not been archived on the Wayback Machine.

Early snapshot for theme downloads: https://web.archive.org/web/20070103095226/http://www.r4ds.com/download-en.htm
New themes: https://web.archive.org/web/20070210103851/http://www.r4ds.com/soft/9-en.htm

Spoiler: Christmas theme

 

[The Real Jdbye]

I didn't know those existed. I only ever saw the basic theme with the green logo and metallic gray background.

 

[SylverReZ]

I didn't know those existed. I only ever saw the basic theme with the green logo and metallic gray background.

Me neither, that was until I found them whilst searching. Hence why I'm asking anybody with any information.

Two variations of the default R4 skin existed. The earliest from v1.04 and below had different icons (i.e., a game controller in the style of PS1 followed by a set of two dice), later themes used the well known Pac-Man and Mac OS icons that we associate the R4 with.

 

[SylverReZ]

The official R4 themes from 2006 have been found. Difference between the themes we have today is that they are embedded into the kernel instead of being in a separate folder. I will have the extracted images posted shortly.

Spoiler: Default Skins (skin-1 / skin-5)

Spoiler: Christmas Theme (skin-6)

Source: mavisxp.com

 

[Ghost]

By any chance do you have the winter snowy theme? I wanted to make an Acekard theme from it.

 

[SylverReZ]

By any chance do you have the winter snowy theme? I wanted to make an Acekard theme from it.

https://gbatemp.net/download/official-r4-christmas-theme.39088/

Here's one that I re-compiled for later versions of the R4DS kernel. You can use the bitmaps to create a theme out of it.

 

[Ghost]

https://gbatemp.net/download/official-r4-christmas-theme.39088/

Here's one that I re-compiled for later versions of the R4DS kernel. You can use the bitmaps to create a theme out of it.

I found it, was this only for R4i SDHC?

 

[SylverReZ]

I found it, was this only for R4i SDHC?

That image is from the R4I-SDHC cards.