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/​

 

[BurningDesire]

@JJTapia19 @Jwiz33 can one of you make one for ctrx file explorer and the gridlauncher updater in the style of scrup or the ironhax installer (gray one) please. Thank you!

 

[Deleted User]

I have no idea if someone has made a brain dump one so I will post mine.

 

[JJTapia19]

@JJTapia19 @Jwiz33 can one of you make one for ctrx file explorer and the gridlauncher updater in the style of scrup or the ironhax installer (gray one) please. Thank you!

I tried

 

[BurningDesire]

I tried
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I love you! Thank you so much!

 

[BurningDesire]

@JJTapia19 actually. Do you have a psd for that template. I'd like to play around with the idea of flow cover packs. Kinda like icon packs but for 3dsflow

 

[Deleted User]

Any requests for homebrew/CFW/others? I really like doing this.

 

[Favna]

Created a banner for the eshop old version downloader - using the ironhax icon because that's pretty much what we all use it for:
Filename would by default be ironhax-banner-fullscreen.png
If anyone spots any detail'ish pixels that i forgot to modify please tell me because the original ironhax logo had the whole smudge going on which just didn't work on the eshop orange so i very carefully removed it.

 

[JJTapia19]

@JJTapia19 actually. Do you have a psd for that template. I'd like to play around with the idea of flow cover packs. Kinda like icon packs but for 3dsflow

I don't have a proper psd template but I can make one.For now I use the iron hax installer one as a base to know where exactly the text and icon goes. The font is adventure subtitles 18 size.

 

[sion_zaphod]

With the recent homebrew 3d engine would it be possible to implement it into grid launcher for a true 3d flow experience. In other words real box covers? Am asking because I've been a contributor to covers for the emulation scene. Emuflow etc.

 

[Favna]

With the recent homebrew 3d engine would it be possible to implement it into grid launcher for a true 3d flow experience. In other words real box covers? Am asking because I've been a contributor to covers for the emulation scene. Emuflow etc.

That question is more suited for the main thread of the homebrew gridlauncher because it's a feature that @mashers would have to implement.

Main thread: https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-homebrew-launcher-with-grid-layout.397527/

 

[mashers]

With the recent homebrew 3d engine would it be possible to implement it into grid launcher for a true 3d flow experience. In other words real box covers? Am asking because I've been a contributor to covers for the emulation scene. Emuflow etc.

Extremely unlikely. There is hardly any RX memory available for new features to be added, and I'm guessing that adding a 3D gfx library would mean a considerable amount of extra code.

 

[BurningDesire]

Extremely unlikely. There is hardly any RX memory available for new features to be added, and I'm guessing that adding a 3D gfx library would mean a considerable amount of extra code.

Then you should make a 3DSFlow app that downloads the covers as well that are missing! Just like WiiFlow!

 

[BurningDesire]

@ihaveamac you should copy you gridlauncher updater to the site then we can download all missing box covers to our system from our 3ds! Just like with WiiFlow. Only seems right to have a 3DSFlow downloader!

 

[ihaveahax]

@ihaveamac you should copy you gridlauncher updater to the site then we can download all missing box covers to our system from our 3ds! Just like with WiiFlow. Only seems right to have a 3DSFlow downloader!

...that's what I am doing

https://github.com/ihaveamac/3DSFlow-downloader

 

[BurningDesire]

...that's what I am doing

https://github.com/ihaveamac/3DSFlow-downloader

I. FUCKING. LOVE. YOU.

 

[ihaveahax]

I. FUCKING. LOVE. YOU.

only it's going to be more than you expect

 

[BurningDesire]

only it's going to be more than you expect

Ooh. If you can please PM me the deets. I want to know

 

[ihaveahax]

here's a little hint:

we already have a bunch of covers for official games and applications.

anyone who can guess how that is gets a cookie. and no it's not the ones we already have.

 

[SomeGamer]

here's a little hint:

we already have a bunch of covers for official games and applications.

anyone who can guess how that is gets a cookie. and no it's not the ones we already have.

Auto-generation of covers?

 

[ihaveahax]

Auto-generation of covers?

you're closer. but now the question is, how?