Hacking Custom Icons for AKAIO

[VatoLoco]

Homebrew Icons

If you run dem homebrew games and apps on your Acekard like I know I do, then I'm sure you've noticed that a lot of them don't have their own icon (or one that's just plane fugly).
So, I put AKAIO's custom icon feature [thank ya smiths] to the test, and made a grip of bad-ass little pictures that replace the boring und repetitive default generic icon.

Homebrew Icons Download

To use these, rename the .bmp to the same name as your .nds file
and place both files in the same directory, or if you prefer a cleaner root directory, the .bmp can be placed in the 'icons' folder in '__aio'

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GBA Icons

Hey again, you Acekard freaks. I decided to see if custom icons would work with .gba, like they do for .nds . And sho' 'nuff, those mofos work for GBA games, too=) So to kick things off, I started by making icons for all the GBAtemp Recommends titles (which I will try to keep up with

), and some games I personally dig, ya dig.

GBA Icons Download


check out these GBA packs too!

GBA pack v1 by flamepanther

GBA icon pack v2, also by flamepanther

GBA pack built by Awakened



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File Extension Icons

And now...
Last, but definitely not least, here's the file extension icons.

Extension icons Download

To use these, place them in the files in the same directory, or the .bmp may be placed in the 'icons' folder in '__aio'

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GBA and NDS icons can also be used with WoodRPG and WoodR4.
Its a little bit of a different setup to use them with Wood. Place the properly named icons in '__RPG/icons'. The icons need to have the extension type (.nds or .gba) attached ie: AnotherWorld.gba.bmp

 

[Swip]

Do you know how to put custom icons for other file formats? Say txt files. I've tried putting a 16 bit bmp icon thats 256x256 in the icons folder with a file name of "txt.bmp" and "text.bmp".

Do I have to re size it to a certain size?

 

[Joey90]

I believe it has to be 15-bit 32x32 .bmp

Which is a bugger to convert to :|

and it should be the extension only, so txt.bmp

 

[IOwnAndPwnU]

I don't really get the point of this?

 

[Joey90]

I don't really get the point of this?

So you get proper icons for text music and video files, rather than a random question mark

Though my icons are a little easier to interpret than those

 

[IOwnAndPwnU]

Oh. Yeah, I wasn't really sure so I just asked.

Is there a good icon for the .txt because that's probably the main one. And maybe music/videos. Although, would it be possible to get the ones from Windows. Like when you make a folder and you want to customize it. I kinda like those ones. Especially the Text one because it's like Notepad.

 

[Joey90]

I made a few based on the windows ones:

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/6427/txt2ks1.bmp
http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/2313/mp3xpa4.bmp
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/8234/dsm2ne3.bmp

right click and save as if you need to

 

[golden]

I made a few based on the windows ones:

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/8234/dsm2ne3.bmp
http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/2313/mp3xpa4.bmp
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/8234/dsm2ne3.bmp

right click and save as if you need to

Good work, I like those and VatoLoco's. Let's hope the next version of AKAIO incorporates icons like these for its plug in files though.

 

[VatoLoco]

The icons I made are for homebrew apps that dont have an icon(you just see the standard DS pic), like Quake, ATari2600, Tyrian, Mini VMac... and a bunch of others

 

[Swip]

I made a few based on the windows ones:

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/8234/dsm2ne3.bmp
http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/2313/mp3xpa4.bmp
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/8234/dsm2ne3.bmp

right click and save as if you need to

You posted the same thing twice. If you didn't realize.

Their great btw. Would you happen to have a text icon?

 

[VatoLoco]

Hey Swip, here's a couple of links to custom icons for .txt, dpg, and such.

They are both from the Acekard forum.

This icon pack is from bbdvd
http://www.acekard.com/bbs/attachment.php?aid=285


and this is from nin187
http://www.acekard.com/bbs/attachment.php?aid=287

 

[Joey90]

I made a few based on the windows ones:

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/8234/dsm2ne3.bmp
http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/2313/mp3xpa4.bmp
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/8234/dsm2ne3.bmp

right click and save as if you need to

You posted the same thing twice. If you didn't realize.

Their great btw. Would you happen to have a text icon?

Oops...

Yeah I do have the text icon:

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/6427/txt2ks1.bmp

 

[VatoLoco]

I added SNES, MiniVmac, MarcaDS, FractalJunkie, and Atari2600 icons @ the top post

 

[VatoLoco]

I revamped the Hexen icon at the first post. Now it looks much mo betta.

 

[Akothegreat]

How do you make those? I always make 16bit but can't make 15bit

 

[VatoLoco]

i use GIMP.

 

[IOwnAndPwnU]

I made a few based on the windows ones:

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/6427/txt2ks1.bmp
http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/2313/mp3xpa4.bmp
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/8234/dsm2ne3.bmp

right click and save as if you need to

Where do I put these? And what do I rename them as? (Like the text one the best, good job.)

 

[Joey90]

Just put them in /__aio/icons/

named as extension.bmp, so for example, txt.bmp

 

[IOwnAndPwnU]

I thought I'd put AIO's custom homebrew icon feature to use and made several nice teeny tiny pictures that over-ride the boring, generic default one.
Included are icons for Quake, Quake2, Duke3d, DSdictionary,Rise of the Triad,
MinivMac, NeoGeo, Hexen, Atari2600, SNES, MarcaDs, and FractalJunkie

Icons for homebrew apps

to us these, rename the .bmp to correspond with your .nds file
and place both files in the same directory...these dont go in the icon folder


It was a bitch trying to size and convert these.

But he said not to put them in the icon folder. Or is he talking about something else ?

 

[VatoLoco]

It seems people are missing the point.
My icons are for homebrew apps that dont have their own, ie quake.This is a feature Smiths and Normmatt added to AIO

. With my icons, the .bmp goes in the same folder as the .nds they represent.

Joey90's (which are not the right format )extension icons(text, dpg, avi,etc) go in the ' /__aio/icons/' folder..