Hacking Custom _DS_MENU.DATs

[Gene98]

I dont want to delete cheats. And also i dont have any hex-editor here now (=

 

[D-Trogh]

I dont want to delete cheats. And also i dont have any hex-editor here now (=

So.. why would you want to delete the button ?
Do you just want to use Y to go to the cheats menu and use the button's space for skinning ?

 

[iamwhoiam]

Or maybe you can just delete the cheat.dat as well (if the R4 doesn't ask for it)
Then there will be no cheat button

Or, use a blank cheat.dat by opening notepad, saving as cheat.dat

 

[bennydigital]

You don't need a blank cheat.dat just delete it. It doesn't have to be there.

 

[D-Trogh]

Yeah.. but Gene98 want's to keep the cheats.. only 'hide' the button..
So.. we have to found it in a HEX-editor

 

[Gene98]

I dont want to delete cheats. And also i dont have any hex-editor here now (=

So.. why would you want to delete the button ?
Do you just want to use Y to go to the cheats menu and use the button's space for skinning ?

yes. This button is REALLY ugly /=

 

[iwakura]

question (mostly aimed at D-trogh

)
is it possible to remove the string Directory (when browsing folders) and replace that string with the variable that holds the actual folder name?

edit:
here's what im talking about:
http://s70.photobucket.com/albums/i110/4nj...0-resized-1.jpg

 

[D-Trogh]

question (mostly aimed at D-trogh

)
is it possible to remove the string Directory (when browsing folders) and replace that string with the variable that holds the actual folder name?

edit:
here's what im talking about:
http://s70.photobucket.com/albums/i110/4nj...0-resized-1.jpg

Hey.. you are using my _DS_MENU.DAT

Well.. I can't find that line where it says (in your example) APPS but I can find Directory..
I'll look for the code that displays the folder/filename..
When I get this to work.. I'll upload it right away

Edit:
Can't find it.. But I'll look a bit more..

 

[SkH]

question (mostly aimed at D-trogh

)
is it possible to remove the string Directory (when browsing folders) and replace that string with the variable that holds the actual folder name?

edit:
here's what im talking about:
http://s70.photobucket.com/albums/i110/4nj...0-resized-1.jpg

(Wow... in the picture, somebody using the same skin as I! Wow!!

)

To the topic:
I think R4's "GUI" / "OS" is so muchly best!!

 

[iwakura]

question (mostly aimed at D-trogh

)
is it possible to remove the string Directory (when browsing folders) and replace that string with the variable that holds the actual folder name?

edit:
here's what im talking about:
http://s70.photobucket.com/albums/i110/4nj...0-resized-1.jpg

Hey.. you are using my _DS_MENU.DAT

Well.. I can't find that line where it says (in your example) APPS but I can find Directory..
I'll look for the code that displays the folder/filename..
When I get this to work.. I'll upload it right away

Edit:
Can't find it.. But I'll look a bit more..

thanks! no need to kill yourself over it though

i just thought it would be nice if it was possible.

edit: i'm trying to look for it as well, but i'm not exactly sure what i'm looking for... (my second day of hexedit

) is it similar to %*?

 

[D-Trogh]

Can't find it.. But I'll look a bit more..


thanks! no need to kill yourself over it though

i just thought it would be nice if it was possible.

edit: i'm trying to look for it as well, but i'm not exactly sure what i'm looking for... (my second day of hexedit

) is it similar to %*?

Well... when you see something like: %4.2f KB, you know %4.2f indicates the file size..
But, just like you, I don't know what indicates the filename..

Btw.. We won't be able to customize the grey-bar because I think the R4 loads that bar from the real firmware..
I just put 2 DSes next to eachother, one with the R4 booted and one in the DS's menu.. and they are at the same place..
(I you know what I mean..)

 

[marth989]

you mean on the bckground_2 where the game and game icon are,

yeah i doubt that can be moved thats something the ds creates,

its just the r4 take the info from the ds and projects it in the same

place, it would have been nice to be able to remove the silver box

around the game icon and text so you could make your own but i

think that would be impossible

 

[D-Trogh]

Yeah.. That's what I meant ^^
Well.. Some good HEX-Editor will be able to do it I think.. but meh

Anyone found how to delete the 2nd line under the Silver Gamebox ? (With the filename..)

 

[iwakura]

its not or %d is it? i messed with those a bit, but didnt get any outcome...but i may just be doign it wrong

 

[bugmenot52]

its not or %d is it? i messed with those a bit, but didnt get any outcome...but i may just be doign it wrong

If they are using some form of printf, which seems likely, the thing you are looking for is "%s".
But major changes like these are hard with just hex editing. Some stuff might be easier to do if working with the output of a disassembler, but only if you know ARM assembly.

 

[D-Trogh]

its not or %d is it? i messed with those a bit, but didnt get any outcome...but i may just be doign it wrong

If they are using some form of printf, which seems likely, the thing you are looking for is "%s".
But major changes like these are hard with just hex editing. Some stuff might be easier to do if working with the output of a disassembler, but only if you know ARM assembly.


Well.. it's not '%s' That means different things..

%s: %2.2d%s%2.2d%s%4.4d%s %2.2d%s%2.2d%s%2.2d%s

%s points to offset: 0001BD54 (Final revise)
%2.2d%s%2.2d%s%4.4d%s would be the date
%2.2d%s%2.2d%s%2.2d%s would be the time

But..
QUOTE%s %d/%d....Selected cheats:

This is a part of the Text from the decrypted _DS_MENU.DAT too..
And here '%s' is 'Selected cheats:'
So, basicly.. the things that '%s' load are stored somewhere else..

Btw.. There's a new frimware.. but no new en/decryption.. so:
Here is my new _DS_MENU.DAT..
CODE

Deleted:
- R4DS English version
- v1.09
- Game
- Mutimedia
- Boot Slot-2
- Date/Time
- Final revise line..
- Brightness icon
Changed:
- 'Cheats(Y)' to ' CHEATS '
- 'Cheat' to ' OWN ' (Not the best thing.. but MEH)
ToDo:
- SoftRest icon.. tried 3 times.. no luck XD

BUT ! In my work editing the SR icon I found out that the silver box (where the icon is..) CAN be changed :-\
Above the SR icon I allready saw that gray/silver looking thing (Using TileMolester)..
I allready tested it by putting some yellow lines on it.. but didn't saw anything on the DS.. but.. maybe it just appeared under the icon !
So.. I'll try to edit it and see if it works..

 

[Hit]

Can we also edit the coding?
Would be cool!

 

[D-Trogh]

Can we also edit the coding?
Would be cool!

Well.. It's decrypted.. so technicly we could..
But.. I don't have that much HEX experience, so..
+ The data can be compiled with something else too, before it was encoded :-\

 

[saticoy]

...it would have been nice to be able to remove the silver box

around the game icon and text so you could make your own...

think that would be impossible

I was able to edit the silver game box in Tile Molester, but it was harder than editing the icons. The main problem I had was that it doesn't seem possible to get the box to appear correctly in the editor. The closest I can get is a skewed version, pictured below. Left is the original, right is edited.

I did it by guessing where the pixels would end up after being skewed back, but it was tricky. Here's a photoshopped example of what these look like when skewed back like they would be on the R4.

I still can't figure out how to change the default blue loading bar color though. Anyone feel like taking a shot at that?

 

[iwakura]

...it would have been nice to be able to remove the silver box

around the game icon and text so you could make your own...

think that would be impossible

I was able to edit the silver game box in Tile Molester, but it was harder than editing the icons. The main problem I had was that it doesn't seem possible to get the box to appear correctly in the editor. The closest I can get is a skewed version, pictured below. Left is the original, right is edited.

I did it by guessing where the pixels would end up after being skewed back, but it was tricky. Here's a photoshopped example of what these look like when skewed back like they would be on the R4.

I still can't figure out how to change the default blue loading bar color though. Anyone feel like taking a shot at that?

oh wow! nice job! so if we edited it slanted, it should slant back when we run it from the DS eh...guess i'll try it today or tmr...