Homebrew RELEASE Bitmap Printer

[HookedBehemoth]

This program makes it so the capture button takes Bitmap images instead of compressed jpeg images.

Why? I've heard many complains about the poor quality of regular screenshots so this offers a solution for that.

Source
Release

Bitmaps will be stored in your local Album folder ( sdmc:/[optional emuMMC prefix]/Nintendo/Album/Bitmaps )

Limitations:

• Recording videos or regular screenshots don't work while this sys-module is active (ovl-Sysmodule or any other sysmodule hotswap tool is recommended)
• This only works starting from Firmware 3.0.0+ (On lower firmware it will gracefully exit)
• We utilize a debug call from VI which requires a new exefs patch for every version if you aren't on a dev unit (3.0.0 - 15.0.0 included)
• All images will still be at 1280x720 even when playing docked

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[bao3]

Great ! That' what I need . Thank you

 

[masagrator]

You should also add to description that all layers are showed on screenshots. Which means Tesla overlays also are on those screenshots.

 

[one-piece]

With this, can you see the images in the album applet?

 

[chronoss]

With this, can you see the images in the album applet?

no

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Work and it's very good , thanks a lot

 

[masagrator]

With this, can you see the images in the album applet?

Album Applet accepts only properly signed JPGs.
You would need to make Album replacement which is not a bad idea.

 

[HookedBehemoth]

Applet goes through capsrv.
Reimplementing that would be sufficient.

 

[hippy dave]

Nice to see, thanks!

E: I'm guessing 10.0.2 won't need a new patch?

 

[Cyan]

E: I'm guessing 10.0.2 won't need a new patch?

you are talking about AMS patches? unrelated to this thread, and highly a supposition by myself:
if nintendo didn't change the Loader sysmodule, AMS doesn't need to update its own Loader sysmodule either. as long as it's not updated, old patches should work.

that's unconfirmed, just my own guess!
better wait for user's report and confirmation when a new FW is released.


if the question was about Bitmap Printer new version due to HOS update, sorry about that

 

[masagrator]

you are talking about AMS patches? unrelated to this thread, and highly a supposition by myself:
if nintendo didn't change the Loader sysmodule, AMS doesn't need to update its own Loader sysmodule either. as long as it's not updated, old patches should work.

that's unconfirmed, just my own guess!
better wait for user's report and confirmation when a new FW is released.


if the question was about Bitmap Printer new version due to HOS update, sorry about that

Yes, about bitmap printer. It uses patches to unlock debug calls.

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Nice to see, thanks!

E: I'm guessing 10.0.2 won't need a new patch?

Nope. 10.0.2 didn't update vi.

 

[DocKlokMan]

Does this bypass the watermark overlay that some games put on their screen shots?

 

[chronoss]

Does this bypass the watermark overlay that some games put on their screen shots?

I think yes because you can take the screenshot anywhere.

 

[HookedBehemoth]

Watermarks are done via Applet Manager.
This skips it so there is no chance of screenshots being watermarked.

 

[falcorr]

I'm guessing this also disrupts sys-dvr.

 

[SeongGino]

I'm guessing this also disrupts sys-dvr.

Not necessarily.

 

[HookedBehemoth]

Tested every patch and besides one wrong filename they all work.

 

[Bakugo]

Instead of completely bypassing the album, what exactly is stopping someone from making a patch that simply changes the default jpeg quality value (90) to a higher one?

 

[HookedBehemoth]

Instead of completely bypassing the album, what exactly is stopping someone from making a patch that simply changes the default jpeg quality value (90) to a higher one?

I've played around with this before and it turns out that it will only really help on lame screens. You bump into the max filesize limit very fast (500 KiB).
VI has an array internally [90.70,50,40,30,20,10]. It will try to compress the image with those values from top to bottom.
Patching that would be the best bet if you want to try that.

Released a new version where the filename is now the current date time.

 

[chronoss]

Released a new version where the filename is now the current date time.

Tested and working, and work on SX too

 

[hippy dave]

Released a new version where the filename is now the current date time.

Noticed it's not on hb app store yet, just a friendly reminder, not a whinge