Hacking Custom Forwarder and Tips

raulpica · Mar 26, 2012

pepxl said:
mmmm your still using illegal game banner with changed images and nothing more

Links removed till OP provides a fully legal channel.

JoostinOnline · Mar 26, 2012

You can't just offer to distribute illegal content via PM. Your files were taken down for a reason.

wii knee · Mar 26, 2012

Do you believe there are GBA members who:

Just don't get it
Just don't want to get it
Just can't get it
Just don't care

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AbdallahTerro · Mar 26, 2012

Ok guys, No more illegal channels.
Is there cool legal templates out there (other than SifJar's and Wadder)?

SifJar · Mar 26, 2012

AbdallahTerro said:
Ok guys, No more illegal channels.
Is there cool legal templates out there (other than SifJar's and Wadder)?

Most custom channels posted on these forums, or in the "legal channels" forum on the WADder forum. Also all the bases available via CustomizeMii. A few of the better channels are only available as installers rather than WADs, so can't (easily, anyway) be used as bases.

JoostinOnline · Mar 26, 2012

Whatever you use, make sure you note which one you used instead of taking credit for the whole thing again.

shortz1994 · Mar 26, 2012

@ joostonline. dude change your avitar. you look like bieber.lol (evil bieber)

JoostinOnline · Mar 26, 2012

shortz1994 said:
@ joostonline. dude change your avitar. you look like bieber.lol (evil bieber)

Ouch dude.

shortz1994 · Mar 26, 2012

JoostinOnline said:
shortz1994 said:

@ joostonline. dude change your avitar. you look like bieber.lol (evil bieber)

Click to expand...

Ouch dude.

thats from my kid, not me.lol thought i would share a 6yr olds thought with you.lol

AbdallahTerro · Mar 26, 2012

@SifJar or anybody else is there a guide or templates for special effects?
(changing colors, twinkles, alpha, thunder, lightnings...) you know stuff used in official channels.
Movement and changing size won't do the trick alone.

SifJar · Mar 26, 2012

AbdallahTerro said:
@SifJar or anybody else is there a guide or templates for special effects?
(changing colors, twinkles, alpha, thunder, lightnings...) you know stuff used in official channels.
Movement and changing size won't do the trick alone.

There are animations that change colours (including alpha), reposition, scale and rotate images. Combined you can achieve most effects. Note that you can take official banners and LOOK at the BRLANs (converted to XMLANs) to find out the tag types and entry types used for particular effects (guess work and trial and error is involved heavily at that stage). Then use those tag and entry types in your own banners (but don't just copy and past the entire animation - use the same types, but make your own values at particular frames).

Having said this, many are already documented (albeit somewhat vaguely) in various places. I may at some stage if I get time try and add some more documentation about that to my Wii Banner Guide. (EDIT: Possibly some sample videos showing various tag and entry types in action)

AbdallahTerro · Mar 26, 2012

SifJar said:
AbdallahTerro said:

@SifJar or anybody else is there a guide or templates for special effects?
(changing colors, twinkles, alpha, thunder, lightnings...) you know stuff used in official channels.
Movement and changing size won't do the trick alone.

Click to expand...

There are animations that change colours (including alpha), reposition, scale and rotate images. Combined you can achieve most effects. Note that you can take official banners and LOOK at the BRLANs (converted to XMLANs) to find out the tag types and entry types used for particular effects (guess work and trial and error is involved heavily at that stage). Then use those tag and entry types in your own banners (but don't just copy and past the entire animation - use the same types, but make your own values at particular frames).

Having said this, many are already documented (albeit somewhat vaguely) in various places. I may at some stage if I get time try and add some more documentation about that to my Wii Banner Guide. (EDIT: Possibly some sample videos showing various tag and entry types in action)

So using Benzin on official channels is legal but copying codes "as is" is not.
Modifying official tag types and entry types is ok.
When I try to see the black and white in the way you're trying to be legal, all what I can perceive is shades of gray

SifJar · Mar 26, 2012

Not in the slightest gray. you don't use any part of the original channel, you just look and see how it works and make yourself in a similar way. It's not illegal to take apart a computer, see it has a processor and some RAM and then put those things in your own self built computer. OK, bad example because it wouldn't be illegal to take the actual parts from the first computer in your own...but hopefully you get the idea.

pepxl · Mar 27, 2012

AbdallahTerro said:
So using Benzin on official channels is legal but copying codes "as is" is not.
Modifying official tag types and entry types is ok.
When I try to see the black and white in the way you're trying to be legal, all what I can perceive is shades of gray

No not on any Official Game banner or channel or anything released by Nintendo, as that certain banner belongs to the creator/publisher of the game/channel which uses Ninty's code which then makes it copyright. You wouldn't steal a car, change the colour of a door and say it was yours legally because you made a change(probably a bad example but you SHOULD get the point), you cant just copy and paste the output from benzin then edit a line and say you wrote it, you may use "Tags" from the .brlyt and .brlan in you own channel as the "Tags" are just commands the Wii SM interperates as animations(.brlan) to do to the images(.brlyt) stored in the title. You can of cause use a legal base and swap out images and make edits as needed but must credit the original author of the base.

You can mix and match banner and icon from several legal bases also if you like certain aspects of one base to another but of cause credit the authors as needed.

You cant just change a tag and it magically makes it legal, all the references to the images are still copyright, well everything within the channel, so it would be easier to just write a new from scratch, i cant understand why you dont get this as its pretty straight forward.

If its to hard to grasp then simply don't do anything more and forget about sharing channels

JoostinOnline · Mar 27, 2012

pepxl said:
AbdallahTerro said:

So using Benzin on official channels is legal but copying codes "as is" is not.
Modifying official tag types and entry types is ok.
When I try to see the black and white in the way you're trying to be legal, all what I can perceive is shades of gray

Click to expand...

No not on any Official Game banner or channel or anything released by Nintendo, as that certain banner belongs to the creator/publisher of the game/channel which uses Ninty's code which then makes it copyright. You wouldn't steal a car, change the colour of a door and say it was yours legally because you made a change(probably a bad example but you SHOULD get the point)

He probably won't, considering we've been telling him that for several days.

AbdallahTerro · Mar 27, 2012

Sorry no links, only PNGs from now on.

Deleted-196549 · Mar 27, 2012

shortz1994 · Mar 27, 2012

AbdallahTerro said:
Sorry no links, only PNGs from now on.

?? dude you just don't get it do you... shit it takes a lot of work to make channels, an not just re skin them, i'm still reading the blog that was passed to you.
an trying to make my own. an here you are ready with "fake" channels. i call them "fake" cause the are not even legal. go to one of the other sites if you want to make illegal channels. next step might be to ban you for this. but hey not even listening, so might the MODS might do it anyway.

spayrosam · Mar 27, 2012

Here is a good beginning
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<vtx>0XFFFFFFFF</vtx>
</colors>
<coordinates>
<set>
<coord>0.000000</coord>
<coord>0.000000</coord>
<coord>1.000000</coord>
<coord>0.000000</coord>
<coord>0.000000</coord>
<coord>1.000000</coord>
<coord>1.000000</coord>
<coord>1.000000</coord>
</set>
</coordinates>
</tag>
<tag type="pae1" />
<tag type="grp1" name="RootGroup" />
</xmlyt>

EDIT:

TPL quality IA4 or IA8 or RGB565

JoostinOnline · Mar 27, 2012

5 bucks says he releases that claiming he wrote it, but with a few Nintendo files thrown in.

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