Hacking DSTWO Skins

[alidsl]

Wow, nice skin Viz, I guess I like you style

 

[CannonFoddr]

Wow, nice skin Viz, I guess I like you style

Same here - I think I'd best leave the skin making to the 'experts' & just concetrate on keeping the first post updated

 

[sputnix]

the pipboy loading screen picture isn't there, can you fix that please, and thanks in advance.

 

[VatoLoco]

just FYI, ive updated the loading screens to 1.03 for my NeonGreen, and DontPanic themes =)

 

[CannonFoddr]

the pipboy loading screen picture isn't there, can you fix that please, and thanks in advance.

Hmm that's weird - there's an [ Img ] tag in the spoiler linking to the picture on supercard forums - but it wasn't showing.... I can only guess M4ST3RW1LL updated the picture & that broke the link

Fixed now

 

[Pyrate02]

Hi:

I just got a DSTwo and was wondering where to put a new skin folder on the micro SD card.

Thanks...

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

_dstwo/ui/skinfolder

Each skin has a separate folder and all should be put in the ui folder (which is in the _dstwo folder).

 

[Pyrate02]

Thanks!

 

[CannonFoddr]

Duh

..... What an idiot I am - I'd included where to install all the other skin files but FORGOT to add instructions for the bloody main one

 

[Stormwave]

Just thought I'd let yas know, I've updated my DS Skin Maker again to 0.48.

I added the "Real-Time Menu" mode, and a single (will add more later) preview for it. Loading screen modifier still works fine for EOS 1.03 aswell.

DS Skin Maker

 

[CannonFoddr]

@ stormwave: Thanks for the info - Glad your 'loading screen' option still works OK (it's yet another different offset for the other program).

Updated first post with new link to your program & new offset address for the other

 

[viz]

circuit nebula gba skin

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1325998/circuit_nebula_gba.rar


EDIT:

Made a suite with everything included, nds skin, gba skin, plugin skin.

http://filetrip.net/f12075-%5BDSTWO%5D-Cir...-SUITE-2-0.html

 

[nathancnc]

Thanks viz, love the new theme pack!

 

[Stormwave]

Great job Viz, I'm currently using this skin for EOS, nice to have it for all modes.

Don't forget though, you can make a full preview of the Plugins skin using DS Skin Maker (Just right click in a preview window and save it as whatever you want). And also now make Real-Time Menu aswell, more work, hehe.

 

[viz]

thank you

Ill keep your program in mind if I make a new skin anytime soon , I definitely like the loading screen modifier

I havent skinned the real time menu since the default one is so nice and it seems like a lot of small images to edit

 

[jalaneme]

@ jalaneme: I assume you mean 'Okami' pictures like

Spoiler: Large image....

If so - I can't see why one of us can't make one for you

just a few questions though...
> Is there any pictures you prefer for top/bottom - perhaps you can give a link to them & we'll see what we can do.
> Would you like a single picture covering both screens or a different one for each
> Would you prefer a skin just for the eos or perhaps a 'full set' (eos/plugin/nds-gba/loading etc) - if so that may take a little longer to do
> What info do you want to see on the top screen (clock/Filename/internal name etc etc)

Spoiler: EDIT: I've had a little play to see what the graphic looks like split over 2-screen

It's only a mock-up but what do you think ??

thanks very much see if you can make a theme with these pictures:

http://sifterx.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/okami5.jpg
http://www.ps3informer.com/okami%5B1%5D.jpg
http://metavideogame.files.wordpress.com/2...1280x1024_2.jpg
http://britishgaijin.files.wordpress.com/2...n-480-x-360.jpg

> Would you like a single picture covering both screens or a different one for each

can you please do variations between screens? thanks.

> Would you prefer a skin just for the eos or perhaps a 'full set' (eos/plugin/nds-gba/loading etc) - if so that may take a little longer to do

full set please, i am willing to wait

> What info do you want to see on the top screen (clock/Filename/internal name etc etc)

not sure about that, i don't have the dstwo yet, but i would presume clock and filename would be nice, once again, thanks!

edit; mock up looks nice too.

 

[DeltaBurnt]

I really hope Alfadir makes a multi skin pack for his iDS, I just love that thing so much.

 

[CannonFoddr]

@ jalaneme: if you looked a little further on from the post you quoted - you'll see I've aready done a eos skin using one of those pictures (it's on the first post)

I'm not really a 'skinner' (All I do is modify what other people have done) & don't really have much time to actually do any 'unique' skins ....
... So any1 else fancy having a go for jalaneme ????

 

[Stormwave]

Just thought I'd let you real skinners know about something cool I found out. From studying the "Steampunk" (amazing skin, if anyone wants to try and convert it

) it does a very clever trick to allow two screen animation on the top screen. This trick works perfectly on the DSTwo and is performed like so:

The clock colon alternates between being on and off, and can be any given size. If the clock colon goes off the screen, it will wrap back around again (moving down one like while it's at it). This means you can have the clock_colon span the entire screen, and wrap back around again. Which means that you can create a second background within clock_colon, which will toggle on or off as the colon does. I don't know if this makes any sense, but you can check out the "Steampunk" AK2 skin on NDSThemes (check within the description to find the animated link).

I don't think I have the skills (patience more likely) required to get this to work effectively, but I thought I would let people know about this trick and hopefully we can get some animated skins!

At some point in the future I'll add this image wrapping into DS Skin Maker, and also time the clock_colon toggle, so this trick can be fully previewed.

 

[CannonFoddr]

Interesting fact that......

Spoiler: and for those who can't be bothered looking for the link....