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

 

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

 

Not yet, you can install the .ds2skin using the DS2 Skin Installer, or simple double click on the ds2skin file to launch the installer. It'll detect your SD Card and install the files in the appropriate places.

I have decided to work on a DS side installer, so hopefully it won't be too long before I launch that.

 

Yeah, it installs all skinnable things. EOS, GBA, SNES, Loading, Plugins and iReader.

 

I just remembered how much I hate programming for the DS, lol.

I've finished the DS-side installer. It's a DSTwo plugin program that will search inside "_dstwo/skins" for .ds2skin files, and will install them.

Now you can switch entire skins without removing your SD card

 

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)

Example of 'eos' skin

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

Example of 'Loading' skin

Example of 'Plugin' skin

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

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' )

 

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)

 

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)?