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]

I know you said there is no psd. I'm just too lazy to do it my self. I shall wait patiently! I don't want mine to be off by like 5px and screw up the theme

 

[Xenosaiga]

They show on top of each other for me cause I'm on mobile. But I like the one with the black text.

 

[JJTapia19]

You can just upload both if you want, or just yours.

Ahh I uploaded both But your's won 2-1 I didn't want to at first since they look alike.

I know you said there is no psd. I'm just too lazy to do it my self. I shall wait patiently! I don't want mine to be off by like 5px and screw up the theme

I'll try to make it now. The first layer will be a guide to let yourself go by. You can delete it when everything is in place. Depending the size of the icon and text you can separate them a bit so they fit nicely. You can extract the logo from the app's .smdh with this tool https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-the-smdh-creator-make-your-own-icon-pack.396765/
The font is adventure subtitles 24 pt in photoshop 18 in paint.net

 

[JJTapia19]

I know you said there is no psd. I'm just too lazy to do it my self. I shall wait patiently! I don't want mine to be off by like 5px and screw up the theme

And I have no idea about what I did but I hope it helps Not everything has to be in the exact same place for every cover. Depending on the icon and how long the apps names you can play with the location so that everything fits well.

 

[BurningDesire]

And I have no idea about what I did but I hope it helps Not everything has to be in the exact same place for every cover. Depending on the icon and how long the apps names you can play with the location so that everything fits well.

I'll give it a shot in the morning! Got to go to sleep now. Since tomorrow I'll be staying up to midnight. Night everyone!

 

[JJTapia19]

I really hope the official dev gets a chance to make he's box art cover. He's really good with design! But until then I couldn't hold myself. All credits to him since I just played around with screenshots of he's awesome work.

Check out the new Theme manager here: http://gbatemp.net/threads/tinker-shuffle-menuhax-theme-manager.407445/#post-5900082

 

[BurningDesire]

@ihaveamac when you release your app will it also download all homebrew banner from your site? Since the site your downloading from wont have homebrew?

 

[MasterLel]

I really hope the official dev gets a chance to make he's box art cover. He's really good with design! But until then I couldn't hold myself. All credits to him since I just played around with screenshots of he's awesome work.

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Check out the new Theme manager here: http://gbatemp.net/threads/tinker-shuffle-menuhax-theme-manager.407445/#post-5900082

Maybe a .cia version of it with your image as a banner

 

[ihaveahax]

@ihaveamac when you release your app will it also download all homebrew banner from your site? Since the site your downloading from wont have homebrew?

no not yet

 

[BurningDesire]

no not yet

Aw okay

 

[ihaveahax]

Aw okay

it's not as simple to do because homebrew can be placed in several different locations. I'll get to it eventually but not in the first release.

 

[BurningDesire]

it's not as simple to do because homebrew can be placed in several different locations. I'll get to it eventually but not in the first release.

Oh? I thought it had to be in a 3ds folder in the root of a SD card. (Minus a few expceptions)

 

[ihaveahax]

Oh? I thought it had to be in a 3ds folder in the root of a SD card. (Minus a few expceptions)

/gridlauncher/folders

this is a project for the grid launcher, did you forget?

 

[BurningDesire]

/gridlauncher/folders

this is a project for the grid launcher, did you forget?

oh yeah . I thought it would be as simple as unzip..blahblahbal... ../3ds/..directory.../ etc...

 

[mashers]

Getting banners for homebrew isn't realistic as the only way of knowing what the homebrew actually is is by its filename. Since the 3dsx can be renamed to anything, it would not be possible to reliably identify what the 3dsx is.

 

[BurningDesire]

Getting banners for homebrew isn't realistic as the only way of knowing what the homebrew actually is is by its filename. Since the 3dsx can be renamed to anything, it would not be possible to reliably identify what the 3dsx is.

Well if you made it so everyone has to put their homebrew in the same place then maybe... Chances of that though are -10/10

 

[mashers]

Well if you made it so everyone has to put their homebrew in the same place then maybe... Chances of that though are -10/10

It's not the location which is the issue. It's the name of the 3dsx file.

 

[ihaveahax]

Getting banners for homebrew isn't realistic as the only way of knowing what the homebrew actually is is by its filename. Since the 3dsx can be renamed to anything, it would not be possible to reliably identify what the 3dsx is.

considering most people would probably keep the default file/folder name of the homebrew in question, it's probably possible to do easier than you think.

 

[mashers]

considering most people would probably keep the default file/folder name of the homebrew in question, it's probably possible to do easier than you think.

I would not want to make that assumption though. I for one have renamed several homebrew apps' folders and 3dsx files.

 

[ihaveahax]

I would not want to make that assumption though. I for one have renamed several homebrew apps' folders and 3dsx files.

is that what most people have done though?

in any case, there can still be something there. even if people rename their folders and things. I have ideas...