Hacking Nintendont Themes and Custom Mods

[TotalInsanity4]

Question is, who will make custom loader backgrounds for every Gamecube game, and then who will want to sit and wait as they all download and take up space on their hard drive?

I think that this one's gonna mainly be up to the users to find/create themselves, for both convenience and sanity's sake

 

[Drak0rex]

I think that this one's gonna mainly be up to the users to find/create themselves, for both convenience and sanity's sake

I know, that would be total insanity.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

I know, that would be total insanity.

Times 4!

 

[AbdallahTerro]

Question is, who will make custom loader backgrounds for every Gamecube game, and then who will want to sit and wait as they all download and take up space on their hard drive?

Doesn't matter really
Important is to have the option

Updated to 315:
* Fixed loading loader theme from nintendont app by making smooth fading transitions
* Also fixed switching to Custom Game theme when launching through nintendont or after exiting autoboot

 

[AbdallahTerro]

Updated OP

 

[Troopage]

I'm really happy with the MasterMOD as is. Thank you Abz!
Here is a list of suggestions that you may choose to implement or not.

-Ability to change font color
-Maybe put an mp3 or something in the game folder too? That way when you boot a game it's like launching a Wii U game. Sound and pic!
-Align game list to the left instead of the right so it matches the rest of Nintendont's menus

I think that's it! I'm not sure what your current goals with the MasterMOD are so I wanted to share this with you.

 

[AbdallahTerro]

updated alone in the dark theme using troop's mansion png

 

[Troopage]

updated alone in the dark theme using troop's mansion png

It looks really good. I just tried it out. Thanks!

 

[AbdallahTerro]

I'm really happy with the MasterMOD as is. Thank you Abz!
Here is a list of suggestions that you may choose to implement or not.

-Ability to change font color
-Maybe put an mp3 or something in the game folder too? That way when you boot a game it's like launching a Wii U game. Sound and pic!
-Align game list to the left instead of the right so it matches the rest of Nintendont's menus

I think that's it! I'm not sure what your current goals with the MasterMOD are so I wanted to share this with you.

*changing font color on the fly is doable by requires a major rewriting, I'm not interested to go there. we already have 2 main colors anyways which look nice with all backs.
*adding mp3 or ogg support requires adding a new library. I have no idea if the current memory status allows such an addition, again I don't see a big benefit for this given that the boot time is really short. It might be added as background music to the app which testers might like but would be unpractical too.
*the gamelist is privileged by being right aligned, I really like it this way

 

[Troopage]

*changing font color on the fly is doable by requires a major rewriting, I'm not interested to go there. we already have 2 main colors anyways which look nice with all backs.
*adding mp3 or ogg support requires adding a new library. I have no idea if the current memory status allows such an addition, again I don't see a big benefit for this given that the boot time is really short. It might be added as background music to the app which testers might like but would be unpractical too.
*the gamelist is privileged by being right aligned, I really like it this way

First off, I want to thank you so much for responding quickly and informing me. You certainly are the easiest dev to communicate to/with. Now for my in-depth responses.
*I'm fine with the main 2 colors too. It would have been neat to implement, even if it is impractical.
*True, it is a really short boot time. I wasn't sure how easy it would have been, since I didn't know it would require adding new library support. I wasn't really interested in this and the previous suggestion anyway, so you won' here any moaning from me about them from me. Lol
*Do you say that the game list is privileged aligned to the right because the Game IDs are easier to see? I just thought it would been better aligned to the left because we read from left to right.

 

[AbdallahTerro]

I mean, when I see a right aligned menu, I know I'm in the gamelist

 

[Troopage]

I mean, when I see a right aligned menu, I know I'm in the gamelist

Oh, so you like it because of classical conditioning? I can understand that!
This gives me another idea; how about a different background depending on what menu you are in or game you are hovered over or something?

 

[AbdallahTerro]

Oh, so you like it because of classical conditioning? I can understand that!
This gives me another idea; how about a different background depending on what menu you are in or game you are hovered over or something?

it will only be practical per menu, we can have 4
1 for gamelist
1 for settings
1 for update menu
1 for credits

having one per game would cripple the memory and the app will dump

 

[Troopage]

it will only be practical per menu, we can have 4
1 for gamelist
1 for settings
1 for update menu
1 for credits

having one per game would cripple the memory and the app will dump

Hmm. well that's a bummer. Are we going to have the 4 at least then?

Btw, I sort of realized something since my last post. Remember when you said

It's a good idea but I'm not making 700 new backgrounds

? Couldn't you just let the MasterMOD download the Custom GC Channels & Banners you worked on?

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Couldn't you just let the MasterMOD download the Custom GC Channels & Banners you worked on?

It would have to be in .png format, so they would have to be converted, unless he still has the original image files

 

[Troopage]

It would have to be in .png format, so they would have to be converted, unless he still has the original image files

I could do it. I really do enjoy editing like that.

 

[AbdallahTerro]

they are in bnr form
there are tools to extract files from u8 archives maybe I can make a batch file, if I figure out how

 

[AbdallahTerro]

as for the different backs per menus I can just add 1 download submenu "Download Customization Themes" where I have 4x4 backs for the 4 menus,
It would be fairly easy to add now that I have lots of ready to use functions in the code

 

[Troopage]

they are in bnr form
there are tools to extract files from u8 archives maybe I can make a batch file, if I figure out how

Anything you need done by me?

 

[DemitriArcane]

they are in bnr form
there are tools to extract files from u8 archives maybe I can make a batch file, if I figure out how

Thing is the code would have to download just them, I would prefer having a rule that you cannot show the game name in it, so it would be like the luigis mansion thing i showed, something like PS4 launches where its full screen images before the game loads
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