Hacking My Metroid theme - In the eyes of Samus

[VGMStudios]

I thought i added all the regions in that file. Ill have to go back and take a look.
Ahh bugs it will happen.
Thanks guys for testing it out for me. I need to do some changes now.

VGM out...

 

[jaydeekay]

That looks really nice. Though I'd better wait till this widescreen fix you guys are talking about before I try it myself.

 

[diddy81]

I thought i added all the regions in that file. Ill have to go back and take a look.
Ahh bugs it will happen.
Thanks guys for testing it out for me. I need to do some changes now.

VGM out...

no m8 the PAL iplsetting file is
1)saved in a different place in the base app than the NTSC copy
2)the files in the ash have a different file structure to the NTSC copy

 

[Deleted_171835]

Looks great!
I don't like the hexagonal shape of the channels, though. Only a small part of the channel preview is shown making it hard to tell which channel is which. Perhaps you could change the shape to a square? Otherwise, it looks good. I'll try it out on my Wii.

 

[VGMStudios]

I thought i added all the regions in that file. Ill have to go back and take a look.
Ahh bugs it will happen.
Thanks guys for testing it out for me. I need to do some changes now.

VGM out...

no m8 the PAL iplsetting file is
1)saved in a different place in the base app than the NTSC copy
2)the files in the ash have a different file structure to the NTSC copy

Oh ya thats right. Then Ill have to release a PAL version when I fix it up properly. Thanks Diddy.

VGM out...

 

[WaRMarinE]

Holy SHIT! Now THIS is a theme!

That must have been a very hard to do theme, I remember when the first themes were being developed by the SoftMii team, I was a little involved in doing themes I know for sure that is a pain in the ass modding the files with hex programs and using benzin scripts just to do a little effects or fixing some little errors. Now I look at this theme and Im like wow!

Congrats to VGMStudios and all the persons that helped in the creation of this theme!

 

[SybreTiger]

How exactly does one go about putting this on their Wii and changing the theme?

 

[Hielkenator]

Nice job!

( But why do you have to keep saying "VGM out"? It internet not a Walkie-Talkie...)

 

[DeadlyFoez]

The only thing that bothers me is that all of the channels corners are cut off a little too much. If that could be reduced then I would make this my primary theme.

 

[Bladexdsl]

that's the 2nd best theme i have seen so far the best being the gothic theme...which i still want to keep as my theme

 

[qwertymodo]

I agree the corners are cut too much on the channels. Also, I haven't tried it in widescreen, but if you can work out the widescreen issues and make the channel cropping a bit more subtle I will definitely use this.

Also, you can embed the youtube video in the original post with

[youtube]CIcJFNAEtaU[/youtube]

 

[VGMStudios]

Nice job!

( But why do you have to keep saying "VGM out"? It internet not a Walkie-Talkie...)

heh thats my thing. Ive been doing that for like 10yrs and Im not about to stop!

VGM out...

 

[.Chris]

Nice job!

( But why do you have to keep saying "VGM out"? It internet not a Walkie-Talkie...)

heh thats my thing. Ive been doing that for like 10yrs and Im not about to stop!

VGM out...

you can just put it as your sig, you know...

 

[ThatDudeWithTheFood]

Theming has come so far...
I remember there used to be like 5 themers now
THIS

 

[Donkey Plonk]

Like it a lot mate. Nice different take on a theme instead of just random background pic of said topic, and some random buttons with graphics of said topic. This, is brilliant, the settings bits especially, just like in the original MP game, really really like this.

As the other guys say, sort out the highly cut corners of the channels, sort out the widescreen and SOLD, I would be happy to put this in place of Darkwii

Congratulations mate, shame it took 2 years though, no doubt you won't want to bother doing any more. lol

 

[mvgc3]

I'm with most other people. If you can change the shape of the channels, I would definitely try it! I personally think squares would be the best, maybe skewed a little bit, so it looks like they're wrapping around the visor. I don't know what's possible to do, or how easy it is to do what, so I wouldn't be too picky, but the hexagons just don't look right to me.

If you managed to get widescreen better supported it would be icing on the cake, but since you don't have a widescreen TV, it might be a little much to ask for.

 

[VGMStudios]

Ill be fixing the Widescreen issue and the PAL issue and thats it.

Sorry but if you dont like the hexagons, you can change them yourself. The tools are out there and so are tuts. I just dont have time to change everything everyone wants. I cant please everyone.

This is how I made it and I like the hexagons. Its very Metroidy.

Cheers

VGM out...

 

[mvgc3]

That's perfectly understandable

If you don't my asking though, was the channel shape a simple thing, or one of the more complicated aspects of the mod?

I don't mind doing the legwork of hunting down the tools and tutorials, but it would be nice to know what I should look forward to.

 

[VGMStudios]

If you change the shape you will have to find out also how to change the effect the channels make as well when you go over them with your cursor.
and I cant remember where that is. Diddy might be able to tell you. This is one of the reasons why I dont want to change them. Sorry.

I found out the problem with the Disk Channel.

Thememii ruins the theme. It changes the Disk Channel as well as the cursor.
Use MyMenu.exe to make your CSM's! Why does Thememii do this I do not know.

VGM out...

 

[diddy81]

the channel shape and hover over are controlled by the chansel.ash

the files to change are
ChannelBorder4x3
ChannelBorder16x9
ChannelStroke4x3
ChannelStroke16x9
MouseOverBorder
ShowChannel

thats if im remembering correctly