Hi everyone
This homebrew launcher, based on the original by
@smealum, has the following features:
- Grid layout with paging, touch/d-pad controls
- Built-in settings to change options without editing config files
- Optionally hide the region free loader
- Optionally sort alphabetically
- Display in two or three rows
- 12/24 hour clock
- Help page with contact details
- Support for scanning subfolders on the SD card and choosing which folder to view in the grid
- Still or animated water in the background
- Support for my custom-format converted TTF fonts, currently using Roboto as the main font
Screenshots of current progress:
View attachment 25870 View attachment 25871 View attachment 25872
The attached file, HBL-Grid.zip, is a beta version. Everything should be working, but this version is simply uploaded so people can try it while I put the finishing touches to the final version. If there are issues, bugs, or if you have ideas for improvements, please post them in this thread.Outstanding tasks include:
- Improve the appearance of the top screen, which is still very sparse
- Add the date to the status bar
- Fix target title selector (svdt)
- Remember last homebrew
Following this, source code will be released as soon as I figure out how to upload it to GitHub.
Finally, the following additional features will be added in further updates in the future:
- Customisable background wallpaper for top and bottom screens
- Customisable colour scheme
- Customisable background music
- Sound effects
- Favourites
- Scanning folders other than /3ds/
- Screenshots
I have tested this under NH2.0 and IH on a 9.9 UK New 3DS. I have no other hardware to test it on, so I would be really grateful if people could try this and post the following information only if it DOESN'T work:
3DS version
3DS region
FW version
HB entrypoint used
To use the launcher, unzip it and either drop the .3dsx file into the /3ds/ folder on your SD card and open it from another launcher, or rename it to boot.3dsx and put it into the root directory of your SD card to use it as your default launcher.
Please post feedback, suggestions or feature requests here!