Hacking Banner/Icon Edit,Save Edit, Manual Edit VC Games

[lolsjoel]

Just use .bmp as the image file like you do with the save icons. I always take my own screenshots, actually, and just edit them in Photoshop and save as .bmp, so it would be really nice not to have to open up PS for that any longer.

 

[HowardC]

No.. I mean vb6 can't READ pngs. The output file really doesn't matter as it needs to be converted to tpl anyway, thus the bmp output.

While you can certainly make your own snapshots, that sure does add to the work as now you have to setup the pc emu and have it working.
100% of the neogeo images and 50-75% of the other console images are already available.

Of course for neogeo you can simply use mame's stuff.
For the others, I suggest: The Screenshot Archive
They have a good portion of the snaps for most systems as well as other artwork.

 

[HowardC]

Ok the save injector is ready for it's test run.

VC Save Icon Injector 1.1

This tool is the most complex I've released, so please read the readme... it is imperative that you use the tpls I've included on the neogeo injection due to filesize issues.

Note that I haven't added support for anything other than neogeo/nes as the other consoles don't need an injection.

Edit: Original version had a bug, try 1.1

 

[lolsjoel]

I can't even run VC Save Icon Injector 1.0. I get "Run Time Error '76': Path not found".

And back to what I was saying about making the banner and icon: I was just saying, even if VB6 won't allow .PNG files, why not just go ahead and add support for .BMP or .GIF files? I feel I need to state that I have no experience coding, so I have no idea what amount of effort that would take, but you seem to be pretty damn good and what you're doing, so maybe it wouldn't be much effort for you. Either way, I'll continue to look forward to more apps

 

[RadioShadow]

I can't even run VC Save Icon Injector 1.0. I get "Run Time Error '76': Path not found".

Same problem here. The command Line can't even find "vcinfo.exe".

 

[HowardC]

Here you go:

VC Save Icon Injector 1.1

I had left some debug code in that made the app look for a non-existant path.

(btw vcinfo.exe doesn't exist because the name of the exe is vc_save_inject.exe.... i re-used the vcinfo readme)

 

[HowardC]

I can't even run VC Save Icon Injector 1.0. I get "Run Time Error '76': Path not found".

And back to what I was saying about making the banner and icon: I was just saying, even if VB6 won't allow .PNG files, why not just go ahead and add support for .BMP or .GIF files? I feel I need to state that I have no experience coding, so I have no idea what amount of effort that would take, but you seem to be pretty damn good and what you're doing, so maybe it wouldn't be much effort for you. Either way, I'll continue to look forward to more apps

Because there wouldn't be any point. You wanted me to add resizing support for the snapshot images right? Well the ones you find on the net are mostly in png format. If you had to open photoshop to convert it from png to jpeg/bitmap/whatever you might as well just go ahead and re-size within photoshop.... to run the converted file through another app would actually ADD a step.

So I'll make the app, but not before I add some sort of png support or else there wouldn't be much point. And for the record, it isn't difficult at all to support pngs, BUT I'd have to add a bunch of support dlls/ocx's which many people seem to have trouble getting to work (usually user error, but still....).

 

[RadioShadow]

It would be easier just to use paint.net to convert the file into .bmp format. paint.net is free and doesn't take long to instal.


But anyway, I wanted F-Zero X and Super Mario 64 to be in 60Hz, so I injected them into Sin and Punishment. F-Zero X works seems to work perfectly (since it doesn't require any additional files) but I need more time to test and Super Mario 64 works but the text is a bit glitchy but still readable and playable.

I was looking at the 00000005.app files and I think I've found the Save Game Image name. It's in the files called "saveComments_saveComments_xx.bin" (xx = language). I'll let you know the results tomorrow after I've gotten some sleep.

 

[HowardC]

Alright, here you go kids... because I'm so nice.

VC Icon Generator 3.0

I added png support, banner and channel image output, and some other minor adjustments.

Because of the png support, there is a freeimage.dll included in this package. In theory, windoze should auto-register this dll so long as it's in the same folder as the app. If not, you'll get an appropriate error message so tell me about it.

 

[WB3000]

Alright, here you go kids... because I'm so nice.

I added png support, banner and channel image output, and some other minor adjustments.

I've found one error, it's hosted on RapidShare, the king of all impossible to access file hosts

. Could you try hosting elsewhere, I usually use a mass mirroring service like UploadJockey.

 

[crwys]

Reuploaded with comcast

Download:

Here

 

[HowardC]

Alright, here you go kids... because I'm so nice.

I added png support, banner and channel image output, and some other minor adjustments.

I've found one error, it's hosted on RapidShare, the king of all impossible to access file hosts

. Could you try hosting elsewhere, I usually use a mass mirroring service like UploadJockey.

Quite frankly, rapidshare is the only free hosting service that works for me in any kind of quick manner. Not just the upload end, but the download as well.... there's no "cat puzzles" to fill in or anything... wait 30 secs and you can download. You guys are welcome to mirror this stuff on something else though.


p.s. Upon reading upload jockey's TOS agreement they claim ownership (partial or fully) of any file you upload, so I wouldn't use them out of principal.

p.p.s. Although the tools I've been making are prefectly legal thus-far, I wouldn't reccomend mirroring them on your personal webspace for legal reasons. I actually have my own website, but for the nature of this type of project, I don't upload any of my tools to it.

 

[ihaveathumb]

This is probably a stupid noob question, but where is the link for the tools used in the tut?

 

[Sperion]

This is probably a stupid noob question, but where is the link for the tools used in the tut?

first post?

 

[RadioShadow]

This is probably a stupid noob question, but where is the link for the tools used in the tut?

first post?

Tools:
*link removed*

I think it's been removed.

 

[Sperion]

This is probably a stupid noob question, but where is the link for the tools used in the tut?

first post?

Tools:
*link removed*

I think it's been removed.

:odidnt even knew that, i will upload again today/tomorrow

 

[lolsjoel]

For uploading tools, I'd suggest mediafire. I upload everything there because there are no download times, no passwords, no accounts. Just easy file hosting.

But to each their own

 

[HowardC]

For uploading tools, I'd suggest mediafire. I upload everything there because there are no download times, no passwords, no accounts. Just easy file hosting.

But to each their own

Now mediafire I haven't tried yet....

 

[masud]

Hi, can anyone explain me how to change the save name in a n64 wad file? Not the icon, jut the name that appears when you inspect it. I can't find it anywhere!

Thanks in advance!

 

[ihaveathumb]

Any word on the reupload of those tools?