Homebrew How to extract animated DSi icons into gifs?

[Topaz95]

Hi I am uploading animations to the divoom app. I would like to upload the animated DSi icons found in the system menu and convert them into either frame by frame pics or just animated gifs but I haven't found a good program so far that can help me achieve this. Does anyone know a program I can use? Thanks.

 

[RocketRobz]

Have you tried MessAnimDSIco by Olmectron?
idk if it has the feature, but you could try and see if it has it.

 

[Topaz95]

Have you tried MessAnimDSIco by Olmectron?
idk if it has the feature, but you could try and see if it has it.

I did try it and it was impossible for me to export the icon as a gif.

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

I did try it and it was impossible for me to export the icon as a gif.

Well, can you just export the individual frames?

 

[Topaz95]

Well, can you just export the individual frames?

Couldn't do that either.

 

[Pk11]

Since I couldn't think of anything that can do this I just threw together a quick Python script that can: https://gist.github.com/Epicpkmn11/282e10b07b3aba997078aee5bd59105e

It just needs Python 3 and Pillow ("pip install pillow"), then just run it from the terminal. On Windows you might also be able to drag drop the NDS ROM onto it to make "out.gif".

(Note that the timings will be slightly off due to limitations of the GIF format, the shortest possible frame is 20 miliseconds and it goes up in hundreths of a second, where the real timings are in frames (60th of a second))

 

[Topaz95]

Since I couldn't think of anything that can do this I just threw together a quick Python script that can: https://gist.github.com/Epicpkmn11/282e10b07b3aba997078aee5bd59105e

It just needs Python 3 and Pillow ("pip install pillow"), then just run it from the terminal. On Windows you might also be able to drag drop the NDS ROM onto it to make "out.gif".

(Note that the timings will be slightly off due to limitations of the GIF format, the shortest possible frame is 20 miliseconds and it goes up in hundreths of a second, where the real timings are in frames (60th of a second))

This actually worked thank you!