In this tutorial I’m going to explain how to Change the banner and the icon for Virtual Console Games. First you need a couple of things:
- A wad you want to edit
- A new banner+icon picture (Banner pic. Must have a resolution of
256x192px and an icon pic. Must have a
resolution of 128x96px)
- This Tools
- A Common-Key.bin
- A Hex editor (like Ultra edit)
So if you’ve got al these things you can start.
1. First extract al the files from the rar in a folder and place the common-key.bin in it
2. Now place you wad file in the same folder rename in to in.bin and run “WAD Unpacker”
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3. If you did everything correctly you will get a new folder with a few .app files 1.tik, 1.cert, 1.tmd and 1.trailer file.
Now delete the 00000000.app and replace it with the one matching in the 00000000 folder (use the nes file for nes wads the snes for snes wads etc etc) after you put the new 00000000.app in the folder make sure you’ve renamed the name to 00000000.app
4.Start u8extr_v0.2a_eng and unpack the new 00000000.app and the banner.bin and the icon.bin files (banner and icon files are in the 00000000.app file)
The 00000000_app_out folder will now look like this:
5. Start tplcon_v0.4_eng and press “read tpl” now navigate to your banner_bin_out folder and open VCPic.tpl (banner_bin_out\timg\VCPic.tpl) you will get a message just press yes and you will get this screen:
Now press “Read image” and open your new banner image and then press “Save TPL” and replace the VCPic.tpl.
Now to the same for the icon file (Icon_bin_out\timg\ IconVCPic.tpl) when you are done you can close tplcon_v0.4_eng and go to step 6.
6. Now open banner.brlyt in a hex editor (you can find banner.brlyt in 00000000_app_out\Banner_bin_out\blyt) now you need to scroll through the file and edit the year, the players and the game name.
Year:
Players:
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Gamename:
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As you can see when you open the file the year, players and game name are there a few times you need to edit them al and make sure you keep a dot between each character (just like the images)
When you edited the whole file you can save it and close the editor.
7.Start u8pack_v0.07_eng and open the banner.bin file
[IMG]http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/7347/58795444vf6.jpg
Now press the banner.brlyt file and press add a file now select the edited banner.brylt and press yes on the question
Now replace the VCPic.tpl the same way (select, add, press yes)
Mark the Dot before : Firmware U8 Archive w/ MD5 and press Create archv. And replace the old banner.bin.
Do exactly the same for the icon.bin file and after that open 00000000.app
Replace the edited banner.bin and icon.bin the same way as before and mark the dot fore: U8 Archive w/ Banner Info w/ MD5.
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Insert a Channel name in al the empty spaces [b]AND DO NOT EDIT THE MD5 HASH[/b]
Now press “create archv.” And replace the original 00000000.app.
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[b]Save Game Image:[/b]
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1.Now that we have a banner and an icon it’s just a little step to change the save game image.
With that in mind extract 00000005.app with u8extr_v0.2a_eng
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2. In the extracted map you need to find the save game image.
- For Snes games its banner.tpl
- For N64 games its save_banner.tpl
- For TurboGFX its savedata.tpl
- For Nes its unknown (if someone know please let me know so I can edit the tutorial)
- For Megadrive its unknown (if someone know please let me know so I can edit the tutorial)
Now load the file with tplcon_v0.4_eng and you will see that you have 5diferent icons
[IMG]http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/6286/12cr5.jpg
Now you need to save the images and edit them with a photo editing program like Photoshop.
After you edited the images just replace them by pressing “read image” and select the new image.
Save the tpl when you are done.
3.After we edited the image we going to put everything back together.
Open u8coes_v0.1_eng and locate the original 00000005.app the folder with the edited file and a location for the new 00000005.app
After U8Coes is finished replace the new 00000005.app with the new one.
4. Now we going to edit the text underneath the image (when you stand on it with your hand on the wii) Open 00000001.app in a hex editor for snes games (don’t know the other ones yet)
And search for the save game name (so if you injected a rom in DKC2 its DK Country 2
Its there twice, just rename it and save it.
