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Custom themes arrive on Switch via homebrew

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The first custom theme has been released by the Qcean Switch team. It is called "Winter Odyssey" and can be seen above.

  • All elements on the home screen can be recoloured.
  • Themes are stable (they won't cause the Switch to crash).
  • Image themes are possible (as can be seen with Winter Odyssey).
  • Themes don't work on SX OS just yet.

Can we make our own?
A home menu editor is on its way, so you'll be able to create your own very shortly.


Where can we get them?
Themes aren't yet legal to distribute on GBAtemp but this is being worked on. For the moment, you can get Winter Odyssey from Qcean's discord server (which we can't link here), as well as others when they are released.

Official discussion thread is here.


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Its been so long. Nintendo should have been doing it day fucking one. But as with everything, Ninty has to drop the ball somewhere.
 
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Xzi said:
Maybe this will light a fire under Nintendo's ass to release some official themes for Switch finally, background music and all.
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I think they were waiting to complete the online system 1st... I don't think it will take much more time for them to release themes, I mean they will probably start selling hundreds of them for even more profit lol.
 
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Pretty awesome, maybe Nintendo can implement this somewhere between their stability updates so they can stop getting styled on by homebrew devs.
 
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Sweeeeet! I can't wait to be able to have custom themes. I did so many for the 3DS back then & splashscreens, gonna make a ton for the switch once we're all able to get our hands on this.

EDIT: Also i'm already ban so i'm good & don't care much.
 
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It's not exactly a Theme engine as most of people would think about it just reading the thread title, it's a mod using the LFS to read the Switch launcher from titles folder, pushing the modified files to the memory instead of the original ones while loading the OS.
You can't install themes, or download a lot of them to a folder and select the one you want, files must be allocated to the right folder on SD manually and restart your switch to the theme take place.
I did some themes, the process of doing so till now is a bit trick to people who don't have patience.
At last for now, it crashes your system quite often while booting due to this mod, sometimes freezes the Horizon too, happened to me when i opened the news feed.
About the group itself of Bedroom hackers on discord, well... They seem to not be exactly the kind of who try to help you in case things don't work as expected, looks more like a pot of narcissistics praising themselves for being so priceless cool. (It's my personal opinion, if don't shapes yours, don't blame about).
 
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TamarindoJuice said:
It's not exactly a Theme engine as most of people would think about it just reading the thread title, it's a mod using the LFS to read the Switch launcher from titles folder, pushing the modified files to the memory instead of the original ones while loading the OS.
You can't install themes, or download a lot of them to a folder and select the one you want, files must be allocated to the right folder on SD manually and restart your switch to the theme take place.
I did some themes, the process of doing so till now is a bit trick to people who don't have patience.
At last for now, it crashes your system quite often while booting due to this mod, sometimes freezes the Horizon too, happened to me when i opened the news feed.
About the group itself of Bedroom hackers on discord, well... They seem to not be exactly the kind of who try to help you in case things don't work as expected, looks more like a pot of narcissistics praising themselves for being so priceless cool. (It's my personal opinion, if don't shapes yours, don't blame about).
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From what I can tell you seem to think we have to help you. We don't. There are loads of people in that server and I'm sure they'd love to help you, but the main team may get annoyed with you asking for a help a bunch when we have a lot of work to go through. We're excited about our discoveries and are working on stuff like a website and a theme tool, we don't necessarily have the time to help our 1k+ members.
 
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Ericthegreat said:
Weird thing is I saw ppl talking about this a month ago in the switch hacks discord, either they knew qcean developers, or someone kept it private for a while?
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Qcean was working on our layouts back then as well. I also know Liam from that server. It's likely one of us or something reposting some stuff we made before we became a public group.
 
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anhminh said:
The bounty just start but we already have a winner. Good luck for anyone who want to top this.
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Since what we have is not really considered a homebrew application or a theme manager, no, we have not won yet.
HOWEVER. We do have a program in the works that will customize the home menu, that we're thinking about entering into the bounty, so we have kinda won already.
 

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