DS2 Skin Installer

Freshhhh, thanks for taking your time to do this, should definitely keep my microsd card more organized and keep me from feeling like i messed while putting the skin in.


tyvm

 

ok so where do u then put the skins? In the plugin folder? ui folder? where do u put the .ds2skin file

 

o.0 On the computer...? It's a PC side program at the moment.

 

Ohhh so u can't drag the .ds2skin onto if mms then use it?

 

does it install anything else..loading, GBA, etc??

 

okay..thanks..I'll try it now

 

I still dont get how to use it. Lets say u click on "create skin", then u click on browse for the EOS, then the type of file it is looking for is "DSTwo EOS" files? What are those? .eos? I dont get it lol

Same for loading screen, it askes for "loading screen" type files. is it .loading?

 

No.....Put simply - When you click on the [Browse] button to make a '.ds2skin' pack you need to browse to where the skin graphics are for that particular 'skin' & select one of the files inside that folder.

• In the case of the 'eos' and 'realtime screen' skin - you need to select the 'uisettings.ini' file
  For the 'plugin - select 'up_bk.bmp'
  For 'ireader' - select 'UI.zip'
  For the 'loading' skin/screen - you need to select a suitable 'BMP' file
  For the 'GBA' skin - it's 'navo.bmp'
  For the 'SNES' skin - select 'snnewo.bmp'

Have a look @ the DSTwo skin thread & you'll see which each 'skin' looks like (note that there's no 'iReader' or SNES skins - yet)

Spoiler: Example of 'eos' skin

Spoiler: Example of 'GBA' skin (note SNES skin is similar to this)

Spoiler: Example of 'Loading' skin

Spoiler: Example of 'Plugin' skin

Spoiler: Example of iReader skin

 

Any MAC alternatives?

 

I've 'converted' some of the Multi-skin packs from my thread into .ds2skin packs for you (like you requested in my thread) & I've been giving the 'plugin' a try out as well

Spoiler: converted multipacks

16bitzelda
Abstract Blue
Angel Beats
Barcelona FC
Blue Horse
Bluelights
Chrono Trigger
Circuit nebula
Dont Panic

Found a couple of problems

• One is with the 'Loading screen' - seems like the screens get corrupted when getting 'embedded' into dsgame.
  
  I know the graphic is OK - since I changed the '.ds2skin' to '.7z' & used IZArc2Go to extract it, so I'm guessing it might the way the plugin is extracting the file that causing the problem
  
• Don't think this is an actual problem but when 'setting up' although the plugin skin changes on restart - the eos skin doesn't. You still need to enter the 'Start' > 'Skin' > menu to change it.
  
  Is it meant to do that ? Maybe I was expecting to much, but I was expecting on 'reboot' that all the skins were changed
  (but then again it IS called 'ds2skin INSTALLER' not 'ds2skin CHANGER' )

 

i havent had the loading screen corruption on my end when making .ds2skins (ive only done 3 so far).

i saw what you mean though, when i checked out the DontPanic skin.

I repacked it to see if id get the same corrupt image, but happily i didnt. I used a 16bit bmp for the loading screen image.

DontPanic


maaan, seeing that unchecked iReader box is urging me to skin that bugger too now (though i dont ever use it, i prefer mnshls text reader)

 

Just to check - do you mean you changed the Loading screen to 16bit & that cured the corruption???
I admit I didn't check the bit-depth of the graphics - I just downloaded the multipack, extracted it & 'repacked' it as a 'ds2skin'

Guess that's something we'll have to double check on when repacking then - make sure ALL graphics are 16-bit
(I'll redo those other ones ASAP)

 

yeah, it had been a .png, but the skin installer didnt see it, so i switched it up to a .bmp (and 16bit by habit hehe)

its weird, by looking at the corrupted loading image, i cant decide if i can see the word 'Dingoo' in there, or if its just the words DontPanic garbled up.

 

Love the program. Have 1 major problem (experienced by other users) and 2 comments:

1. I have tried packaging up some existing skin suites and everything works except the loader gets corrupted on all of them. Even with the Tron .ds2skin that VatoLoco made.
1a. If I use the same LoadingScreen.bmp files from the .ds2skin package with the DSTwo Loader Modifier, they work perfectly.
1b. I have been testing the Loading Screen from the windows app and so far only the default.ds2skin works. All others have bad offsets (0x00057000 instead of 0x00059E58)
1c. I've tried to import the Default Blue LoadingScreen.BMP using the DSTwo Loader Modifier and it messes up too. I'm concerned that this is damaging the DSGAME.NDS file.
1d. Per VatoLoco's recommendation, I converted all my LoadingScreens to 16-bit BMP and it seems to work fine.

2. If the .ds2skin is installing the EOS skin, why can't it modify the globalsettings.ini to select it?
3. Can you add an "Edit Skin" setting so that skinners can add to their existing .ds2skin files when they add new features (like SNES)?