Hello everyone,
this is IconGrabber. A homebrew that one can probably best describe as an unofficial steamgriddb.com client for the Nintendo Switch. You can search for games and then preview and download icons that you want. After that, you can apply any icon to any installed title of your switch and replace the original. In order for them to be displayed, you need to use sys-tweak though.
The Switch default icons are 256x256 but the tool will automatically resize any downloaded sizes to fit. This means you can use 512x512 or 1024x1024 icons (works best with 1:1 ratio). Once you applied a custom icon to a game, you need to restart the console for it to take effect.
To use this tool, you must create an API key here and use it. Otherwise you will not be able to find games or icons.
If you dont want to use the Switch keyboard to type the key, you can use/create the config file
with the content:
Download on Github
Note: The code isn't the cleanest. PRs are welcome!
Note: I was only able to test this on 2 consoles. I expect things to break. Please open an issue if it does.
Some of you might have noticed that this isn't new. Custom game icons existed for a while now and even tools to "generate" them. But they all required a PC to use and couldn't be operated just from the switch. The reason i created this is to have a more streamlined and easy way to change icons.
THEME TEASER
And there is another thing (and this is where the fun actually begins): There are some Vertical icon themes but the resources are quite old and are written very poorly. This tool probably works with them too but i never found docs on their aspect ratios and so on. This is why i am developing my own vertical icon theme (2:3 ratio). Here is a little teaser (with custom icons from IconGrabber):
The Icons were downloaded with a resolution of 600x900. you must have a special theme for it to work. The Theme is in active development and will be shared soon.
this is IconGrabber. A homebrew that one can probably best describe as an unofficial steamgriddb.com client for the Nintendo Switch. You can search for games and then preview and download icons that you want. After that, you can apply any icon to any installed title of your switch and replace the original. In order for them to be displayed, you need to use sys-tweak though.
The Switch default icons are 256x256 but the tool will automatically resize any downloaded sizes to fit. This means you can use 512x512 or 1024x1024 icons (works best with 1:1 ratio). Once you applied a custom icon to a game, you need to restart the console for it to take effect.
To use this tool, you must create an API key here and use it. Otherwise you will not be able to find games or icons.
If you dont want to use the Switch keyboard to type the key, you can use/create the config file
Code:
/config/icongrabber/config.json
Code:
{
"api_token": "",
"resolution_id": 5,
"style_id": 0
}Download on Github
Note: The code isn't the cleanest. PRs are welcome!
Note: I was only able to test this on 2 consoles. I expect things to break. Please open an issue if it does.
Some of you might have noticed that this isn't new. Custom game icons existed for a while now and even tools to "generate" them. But they all required a PC to use and couldn't be operated just from the switch. The reason i created this is to have a more streamlined and easy way to change icons.
THEME TEASER
And there is another thing (and this is where the fun actually begins): There are some Vertical icon themes but the resources are quite old and are written very poorly. This tool probably works with them too but i never found docs on their aspect ratios and so on. This is why i am developing my own vertical icon theme (2:3 ratio). Here is a little teaser (with custom icons from IconGrabber):
The Icons were downloaded with a resolution of 600x900. you must have a special theme for it to work. The Theme is in active development and will be shared soon.
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