Hacking Virtual Console Game Icons - Request your icons here!

MelonSpeedruns · May 9, 2016

Hey guys! I recently started doing some Photoshop, and i'd like to share some of my work with you.
I basically did some icons for the Virtual Console titles, injected or not, for Loadiine.
If you guys want me to do an icon in particular, you have to request your icon here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YRiUGbcJctYFzcyU7nsLdEGKo4HHzVx_A6xHdquO6jQ/viewform

Here they are!

WiiU
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD

NES
None yet...

SNES
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Street Fighter 2 - The New Challengers
Super Probotector: Alien Rebels
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country 2
Donkey Kong Country 3
Street Fighter Alpha 2

N64
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Super Mario 64
Super Smash Bros. 64
Star Fox 64
Donkey Kong 64
Banjo-Kazooie

GBC
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX

GBA
Dragon Quest Monsters: Caravan Heart
Pokémon: Feuerrote Edition
Pokémon: Blattgrüne Edition

NDS
The World Ends With You
SaGa 3: Jikuu no Hasha - Shadow or Light

lordelan · May 9, 2016

Solid work mate!
When I read the thread title I thought about becoming a "provider" here as well as I'm building my own icons with Photoshop for every game I need it but yours are way better than mine so ...
Instead of sharing my inferior stuff I went on to even use your Zelda icons for my Loadiine SD card.
And while we're talking ...
I'd need:

The Legend of Zelda - Link's Awakening DX (GBC)
The Legend of Zelda - A Link to the Past (SNES)
Dragon Quest Monsters: Caravan Heart (GBA)
Street Fighter 2 - The New Challengers (SNES)
Super Probotector: Alien Rebels (SNES)

Edit: Maybe a wiki should be set up for this or the injection compatibility wiki should be extended by the possibility to upload icons as TGAs there.

Monado_III · May 9, 2016

Banjo-Kazooie and DK64?

MelonSpeedruns · May 9, 2016

Sure, i'm on it! Expect them to appear soon.

lordelan · May 9, 2016

Monado_III said:
Banjo-Kazooie and DK64?

Dunno why I forgot to mention these.

Nikolay · May 9, 2016

DKC Trilogy please

Migalis · May 9, 2016

Hey i have another question, i downloaded game and wario en pikmin 3 but they don't have icons and background stuff. Basically i don't have the meta folder. Can you help me?

MelonSpeedruns · May 9, 2016

Added 2 new icons. Now let's do the other ones!

lordelan · May 9, 2016

Migalis said:
Hey i have another question, i downloaded game and wario en pikmin 3 but they don't have icons and background stuff. Basically i don't have the meta folder. Can you help me?

Just create an empty meta folder.
Then put in the two needed tga files.
Wait a moment, I'll edit this post in a few minutes.

Edit:
Put in at least iconTex.tga (128x128)
and if you want a background bootTvTex.tga (1280x720).

MelonSpeedruns · May 9, 2016

Create a meta folder next to the content and code folder.
In that new folder, you have to put a .tga image called: "iconTex"
Hope that helps!

Migalis · May 9, 2016

i did, and then i pressed '+' (download covers) in loadiine but nothing happens

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MelonSpeedruns said:
Create a meta folder next to the content and code folder.
In that new folder, you have to put a .tga image called: "iconTex"
Hope that helps!

Where can i find these images?

MelonSpeedruns · May 9, 2016

A .tga is basically an image file. use Paint.NET to convert my images to .tga, then rename it and put it in the meta folder.

lordelan · May 9, 2016

Migalis said:
i did, and then i pressed '+' (download covers) in loadiine but nothing happens

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Where can i find these images?

I just google title screens (you know, where you have to press start in each game), open them up with Photoshop, put them in a 128x128 shape and save them as TGA.
The same goes for the background. Just google for a big screenshot or something that you like and put it in a 1280x720 shape, then save as TGA.
Change names to the correct ones as mentioned in my post above and place them in the meta folder. That's all.

Edit: @MelonSpeedruns sorry for double posting what you already said. Just wanted to add how to do it for background images as well.

And of course Paint.net, GIMP or any other tga capable program is more than enough.
Edit 2: @Migalis The download covers feature from Loadiine GX has nothing to do with the icons from this thread.
If you named your game folders on your SD card correctly* you can make Loadiine download cover box arts for carousel view mode.

These icons here by MelonSpeedruns are just for the grid view (which I prefer)

*correctly means to have the correct ID6 tag in these [ ] brackets at the end of folder name.
Find them out by looking up your games at gametdb.com

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MelonSpeedruns said:
Added 2 new icons. Now let's do the other ones!

Thank you very much! Looking fantastic! Can't wait for Dragon Quest Monsters! =)

MartyDreamy · May 9, 2016

@MelonSpeedruns I can help you with icons and background! I use Photoshop for a long time
(Seeing as I create themes for the 3ds)
If you are interested,contact me by PM so we talk well

CeeDee · May 9, 2016

lordelan said:
The Legend of Zelda - Link's Awakening DX (GBC)

Where do you get GBC VC games? Does injecting GBC work in GBA?

lordelan · May 9, 2016

Sonic_Cee_Dee said:
Where do you get GBC VC games? Does injecting GBC work in GBA?

Yep! You can turn GB(C) roms into GBA roms using the Windows PC tool Goomba Front (Color) and then inject them. It's very easy. You could even put multiple Gameboy Roms into one GBA Rom and chose at each startup what you wanna play (although I prefer one game per VC).
Just tell me if you need any help with this. Although we might should make a tutorial wiki for injection in general to help everyone.

apachehavok · May 9, 2016

Awesome!!

There is a "pack" floating around. I think its 57 total. Having icons for that whole pack would be amazing!!

MelonSpeedruns · May 9, 2016

I'm pretty sure i'll need help if I want to do all of those 57 icons! ^^'

lordelan · May 9, 2016

MelonSpeedruns said:
GBA
Dragon Quest Monsters: Caravan Heart

I'm loving this, thank you sir! For the others too, of course!

MelonSpeedruns · May 9, 2016

No problem, man!

EDIT: I'm done with the icons so far!

EDIT2: If there is any new requests, i'll do them tonight, since I have school stuff today. :\
To make it easier to keep tracks of requests, I added a Google Forms link to the main post. I won't take requests of people in the posts anymore. Sorry

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