Hacking G6 Software "Gamepreview"

[Entrax]

hi

does anybody know how to add gamepreview picture to roms in the rom selection menu...how to. what format. resol. because in the manuel there isn't anything written about that, and i fail to do so...i guess you can add some nice shots to the roms on g6 card...i uses the latest soft 2.00 can anybody help me out or point me to a site dealing whit this...thx

 

[Laintsurge]

Are you sure you can even do it in the first place ?

 

[Entrax]

yeah sure because 1 - when i bought the g6 there was pokemon ruby on it and it had an game icon, when you flash a rom on the card with the g6 software you can see below that there is a possibility to add 2 shots (preview) but i cannnot add them no option will let you , and when you check out the flashcard you can see it makes a file like game xxx.gba and a file xxx.ico so i suppose it has to be the gamepreviw shot...when you flash a game it automatically adds a .ico file but it seems empty so i suppose there is a possibility to add some pictures but how that's the big? because when i take a screenshot i convert it to .ico and resize it and rename the same name as rom and flash it on the g6 it doesn't work...

 

[memyselfandi]

how do you "convert" it?

 

[Entrax]

i use the free software Imagicon then you can selecet the output res i tried 16x16 32x32 48x48 64x64 128x128 none of them works , it always gives me the standard g6 icons

 

[WishCow]

There is a program called pic_g6, it's made by Squitter, I found it in another forum but I don't remember where, so I uploaded it here:
http://web.axelero.hu/wishcow/pic_G6.zip

Extract it and put a 70x55 bmp file into the same directory, and type this into the command line: pic_g6.exe filename.bmp filename.ico, and it will make an ico file. Rename the ico to the same name as the rom and copy to the card.