Emulation So... what is a .rgn?

Shawn ShyGuy · Oct 31, 2014

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I've been working on a skin for VBA recently, and I've been working off of a skin pack that came with a .bmp (image, duh), .ini (settings, duh), and .rgn (this probably deserves a "duh" too, but I dunno what it is, so... :/)
I was gonna just not tamper with it, but it apparently tells VBA what parts should be transparent, and in result, I got this:

So... yeah. Anyone know some software to edit this? I tried notepad++, but I got this for text format:
http://puu.sh/cy8mp/9333f33d28.rgn
So yeah... any help will be appreciated

Dwedit · Oct 31, 2014

Sounds like it might be a GDI region, I'll go look into it quickly...
It's not a text file, any website you upload it to as text will destroy the file.

See if the program here helps:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/254/The-RGN-Generator

Shawn ShyGuy · Oct 31, 2014

Dwedit said:
Sounds like it might be a GDI region, I'll go look into it quickly...
It's not a text file, any website you upload it to as text will destroy the file.

See if the program here helps:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/254/The-RGN-Generator

Okay... but then I get this when I load the BMP:

Dwedit · Oct 31, 2014

I think you hit browse, pick (right click on the transparent color), then create.

Shawn ShyGuy · Oct 31, 2014

Dwedit said:
I think you hit browse, pick (right click on the transparent color), then create.

That's what I did, though. That message shows up after pressing both "pick" and "create"

Nathan Drake · Oct 31, 2014

It's a region file. This tutorial will probably help you a bit more: http://gunner6666.tripod.com/vbaskinscom/tutorial.htm

Shawn ShyGuy · Oct 31, 2014

Nathan Drake said:
It's a region file. This tutorial will probably help you a bit more: http://gunner6666.tripod.com/vbaskinscom/tutorial.htm

Where do I get this region selector?

Nathan Drake · Oct 31, 2014

Shawn ShyGuy said:
Where do I get this region selector?

Region creator and they even have a GUI you can get for it: http://gunner6666.tripod.com/vbaskinscom/

At the least, the region creator link seems to be alive. Also, lrn2google. I didn't do any magic here. Just Google and some search result clicking.

Shawn ShyGuy · Oct 31, 2014

Nathan Drake said:
Region creator and they even have a GUI you can get for it: http://gunner6666.tripod.com/vbaskinscom/

At the least, the region creator link seems to be alive. Also, lrn2google. I didn't do any magic here. Just Google and some search result clicking.

I did google, just I googled region selctor and got alot of IRL-regional crap :wacko:

Nathan Drake · Oct 31, 2014

Shawn ShyGuy said:
I did google, just I googled region selctor and got alot of IRL-regional crap

It's all about the key words. One, you searched "region selector". You want region creator. Otherwise, when finding the file type or the region creator, you needed to specifically mention VBA for relevant results. Otherwise region selector could apply to potentially hundreds, if not thousands of pieces of software or otherwise out there. For the .rgn itself, that literally was just ".rgn file visualboy advance", and boom, relevant results galore.

Shawn ShyGuy · Oct 31, 2014

Okay, well, I got this far, I got to the prompt with region creator.
I'm being such an idiot, I know this, and I'm sorry. But what do I do now?

Dwedit · Nov 1, 2014

You didn't specify the bitmap.

Shawn ShyGuy · Nov 1, 2014

Thank you, I got it working now

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