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Hey,
Recently a new AceKard Manager, version 1.03 was released. This new version now supports skins.
Well skins... you can only change the background picture of both screens, so it's not that customisable, but it's something.
Since their own forum is pretty Chinese, I'm now making a thread about it here.
What can we skin?
Well, as said, you can only skin the background image of both screens, so no changing of the fonts, positions of texts, colors of texts/hovers or anything else...
A skin consists of 2 BMP-images with a special pallet, named "ak_sys_bg1.bmp" (top screen) and "ak_sys_bg2.bmp" (bottom screen)
In the current version the BMP's get a little fucked up, cause the outer left vertical row of pixels will appear at the outer right side of the screen and one pixel up. Also there's always one pixel in the top row somewhere on the right half of the screen, which is always lightblue somehow. I hope they'll fix it in the next versions, cause that's pretty cheap.
How to make a skin?
Just create two bitmaps with any program with the sizes of 256 x 192. Then in the new AceKard manager click ??(T)->??AK Skin click both ???? buttons and search for the files (the top button is for the top screen and the bottom one for the bottom ofcourse) then click the outer left ?? button. Now it'll convert the images with the right pallet and stuff and put it on your MicroSD card.
Any skins available to download yet?
Haven't seen any yet, but I made some myself. They're modified so that the edges appear right, but I don't think the missing pixel in the right top corner is fixable.
Default skin in different colors - - - - - - - - Final Fantasy III styled skin - - - - - - - Bit like Windows XP looking skin
New:
Final Fantasy XII styled skin
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Recently a new AceKard Manager, version 1.03 was released. This new version now supports skins.
Well skins... you can only change the background picture of both screens, so it's not that customisable, but it's something.
Since their own forum is pretty Chinese, I'm now making a thread about it here.
What can we skin?
Well, as said, you can only skin the background image of both screens, so no changing of the fonts, positions of texts, colors of texts/hovers or anything else...
A skin consists of 2 BMP-images with a special pallet, named "ak_sys_bg1.bmp" (top screen) and "ak_sys_bg2.bmp" (bottom screen)
In the current version the BMP's get a little fucked up, cause the outer left vertical row of pixels will appear at the outer right side of the screen and one pixel up. Also there's always one pixel in the top row somewhere on the right half of the screen, which is always lightblue somehow. I hope they'll fix it in the next versions, cause that's pretty cheap.
How to make a skin?
Just create two bitmaps with any program with the sizes of 256 x 192. Then in the new AceKard manager click ??(T)->??AK Skin click both ???? buttons and search for the files (the top button is for the top screen and the bottom one for the bottom ofcourse) then click the outer left ?? button. Now it'll convert the images with the right pallet and stuff and put it on your MicroSD card.
Any skins available to download yet?
Haven't seen any yet, but I made some myself. They're modified so that the edges appear right, but I don't think the missing pixel in the right top corner is fixable.
Default skin in different colors - - - - - - - - Final Fantasy III styled skin - - - - - - - Bit like Windows XP looking skin
New:
Final Fantasy XII styled skin
Thanks to ImageShack for Free Image Hosting
Thanks to FileHost.GR for Free File Hosting
