Homebrew CtrBootManager: 3ds boot manager/loader (HomeMenuHax)

[Space_Goddess_Samus_Aran]

i have a n3ds sysnand 9.2 emunand 10.4
i installed menuhax and coldboot gateway
i have chmm 2.5.
when i change the theme it remains the stock theme
(worked without ctrbootmanager)

 

[iDarkHusky]

I use this website to convert an image to .bin (for Reinand splash for example), this works also for CTRB images ?

 

[Hayleia]

I use this website to convert an image to .bin (for Reinand splash for example), this works also for CTRB images ?

Yes, I just tried it. Don't forget to keep the "rotate 90°" option ticked.

 

[iDarkHusky]

Yes, I just tried it. Don't forget to keep the "rotate 90°" option ticked.

Ok thx !
Same image size for top and bottom screen ? (400x240)

 

[Hayleia]

Ok thx !
Same image size for top and bottom screen ? (400x240)

Nope, bottom is 320x240 (see the example boot.cfg on first post).

 

[MattKimura]

Anyone with Gateway on N3DS, do you ever experience Gateway SOMETIMES showing the red dragon screen, and other times it just shows a black screen and nothing happens? It's really irritating, I have a feeling it's Gateway's fault for the boot rate.

I have autoboot enabled, and autobootfix set to 2. Booting from the GW.3DSX file.

 

[Space_Goddess_Samus_Aran]

yes my n3ds does it sometimes

 

[ApolloCheese]

mine does it as well (menuhax+ctrbootmanager) and so did it with booting via mset exploit and oot. so definitely a problem with gateway launcher

edit: are your gateway leds flashing in different colors as well?

 

[Hayleia]

And I just finished my theme


For those interested, here are the images I used (the first one is based on something I found on redbubble then edited a bit, and the second one was just found on Google Images, I don't take any credit for them) and the theme part of my boot.cfg.

  theme =
   {
     bgTop1 = "ff00ff";
     bgTop2 = "ffff00";
     bgBottom = "007777";
     highlight = "4800ff";
     borders = "ffffff";
     font1 = "4800ff";
     font2 = "d6c886"; // selection
     bgImgTop = "/ctrboot_top.bin"; // 400x240 pixels
     bgImgBot = "/ctrboot_bottom.bin"; // 320x240 pixels
   };

It fits quite well with that menuhax background, if you're that of a Chaos Gore Magala fan (and I am).

 

[romanaOne]

Anyone with Gateway on N3DS, do you ever experience Gateway SOMETIMES showing the red dragon screen, and other times it just shows a black screen and nothing happens? It's really irritating, I have a feeling it's Gateway's fault for the boot rate.

I have autoboot enabled, and autobootfix set to 2. Booting from the GW.3DSX file.

I just got this set up. I tried loading the homebrewlauncher and then using it to boot Gateway and I got the black screen.
I've had it happen once in a while launching gateway both from mset (Gateway's and rxtools) and HBL. On o3ds.

The boot screen pictures are really cool by the way. I used imagemagick.

 

[Columbo2811]

@cpasjuste Ive just noticed a bug or it could be something else but I copied the same setup on another 3ds but this one had 10 dsiware games on system NAND and it wouldn't boot it kept freezing on selection screen I tried different things to boot and checked config but it was definitely related to the dsi games. As soon as I deleted them it booted fine. This may have something to do with dsi game apps running in the background. I just thought I'd let you know, it's not a major problem and not sure if there's a fix anyway.
-edit just been replicating this problem I installed 1 after another dsi titles and everything was fine up to 5 dsi titles then after the 6 install no longer booting on menu. I removed 6 dsi game and everything booting again. 5 is working still. So with a certain amount of dsi titles there's a problem booting. This on a old 3ds and may not be an issue on new 3ds. Maybe ram related issue due to animated icons and not static ones. Probably why Nintendo didn't use animated icons for the 3ds. Anyway thanks the themes feature is excellent.

 

[3003x]

for some reason my pictures turned yellow

 

[subcon959]

Would be interesting to have the image change depending on which entry is highlighted, if that's even possible.

 

[cpasjuste]

@cpasjuste Ive just noticed a bug or it could be something else but I copied the same setup on another 3ds but this one had 10 dsiware games on system NAND and it wouldn't boot it kept freezing on selection screen I tried different things to boot and checked config but it was definitely related to the dsi games. As soon as I deleted them it booted fine. This may have something to do with dsi game apps running in the background. I just thought I'd let you know, it's not a major problem and not sure if there's a fix anyway.
-edit just been replicating this problem I installed 1 after another dsi titles and everything was fine up to 5 dsi titles then after the 6 install no longer booting on menu. I removed 6 dsi game and everything booting again. 5 is working still. So with a certain amount of dsi titles there's a problem booting. This on a old 3ds and may not be an issue on new 3ds. Maybe ram related issue due to animated icons and not static ones. Probably why Nintendo didn't use animated icons for the 3ds. Anyway thanks the themes feature is excellent.

Im not sure to understand where it crash/freeze, when you try to load something from CBM ?

 

[MrMandraque]

Hello @cpasjuste

Custom backgrounds :

Images need to be in .bgr bin format. This can be accomplished with image magick using the convert command and then rotating the image 90 degrees.

convert yourimg.png -channel B -separate yourimg.png -channel G -separate yourimg.png -channel R -separate -channel RGB -combine -rotate 90 yourimg.rgb

Place it on your sdcard and edit your config to the path of the image.

Just:

convert yourimg.png -channel BGR -separate -channel RGB -combine -rotate 90 yourimg.rgb

It' s too short!

Good job, thank you for you homebrew.

 

[MattKimura]

for some reason my pictures turned yellow
View attachment 36651

Maybe it has to do with the color settings in the boot.cfg

Also, someone should make a CTR Boot Manager image bin sharing thread

 

[subcon959]

 

[MrMandraque]

Maybe it has to do with the color settings in the boot.cfg

Also, someone should make a CTR Boot Manager image bin sharing thread

W.I.P.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/ctrbootmanager-backgrounds-collection-scripts.412013/

Bug detected?

All botom images swap with the background colors...
My images flashes (botom only).


I changed this:

 theme : 
  {
    bgTop1 = "4a0031";
    bgTop2 = "6f0149";
    bgBottom = "6f0149";
    highlight = "dcdcdc";
    borders = "ffffff";
    font1 = "ffffff";
    font2 = "000000";
    bgImgTop = "/Boot Loader/Themes/Top/background.bin";
    bgImgBot = "/Boot Loader/Themes/Botom/background5.bin";
  };

To this:

 theme : 
  {
    bgTop1 = "4a0031";
    bgTop2 = "6f0149";
    bgBottom = "ffffff";
    highlight = "ffffff";
    borders = "ffffff";
    font1 = "ffffff";
    font2 = "000000";
    bgImgTop = "/Boot Loader/Themes/Top/background.bin";
    bgImgBot = "/Boot Loader/Themes/Botom/background5.bin";
  };

The purples flashes become white after that... (Narmol!)

and finally

  theme : 
  {
    bgImgTop = "/Boot Loader/Themes/Top/background.bin";
    bgImgBot = "/Boot Loader/Themes/Botom/background320.bin";
  };

It's the same thing about the first conf!!! Purple flashes.

 

[subcon959]

Can you add option to turn the bottom screen information off? (or change the font color so I can make it the same as background)

I think it looks neater with just the top screen.

 

[Columbo2811]

W.I.P.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/ctrbootmanager-backgrounds-collection-scripts.412013/

Bug detected?

All botom images swap with the background colors...
My images flashes (botom only).

Or just save your picture rotated clockwise 90* to jpeg with any paint program then use this program
http://freeconverter.info/online/jpg-to-bgr
once converted just rename it to .bin that's it. Make sure the size is correct when saving it to jpeg

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Purple flashes was fixed for me in version 1.5. I had them in version 1.4