Hacking New Theme for EZ-Flash Omega!

[ShadowOne333]

I have modded the dark theme slightly for anyone that wants a slightly darker theme.
this is using the latest SimpleDE fw made by Sterophonick.
I Have also included my custom border pack for Game Boy Interface.

View attachment 288423

Huge thanks to Sterophonick for all his

Files:
SimpleDE_SuperDark.rar: Precomplied fw file ready to flash
All_In_one.rar: Game Boy Interface addon borders

New versions available on github:
just search "f3bandit/omega-de-kernel" on github

Is this only for the Omega Definitive Edition?
Also, do you have pics of the Gameboy Interface borders you mention?

 

[f3bandit]

Is this only for the Omega Definitive Edition?
Also, do you have pics of the Gameboy Interface borders you mention?

Yes it's only for the DE version as it's built from Sterophonick 's SimpleDE source.

 

[Sterophonick]

Looks amazing. Mind if I port it to the EZ-Flash IV?

Yeah, I'd love to see that!

 

[magic_maik]

EDIT: I accidentally double-posted so I deleted the content of the first (this) post. Sry!

 

[magic_maik]

Hello y'all,

I'm relatively new to all of this, and up to this point I've always been a quiet reader of the forum
I created my own thumbnails for a few Homebrew GBA Games etc., but the skinning is driving me nuts! I edited some icons, and after that it won't compile... See the attached screenshots.

IDK if any of this helps, I'm a complete noob when it comes to programming and stuff like that

What I found out by myself tho is, that the build.bat file needs to be adjusted to where your devkitPro is installed. Is that right? Because if you edit build.bat, it mentions the directory of devkitPro (or where it would be by default) a few times and I changed every line where this is the case, idk if I made a mistake here?

If any of you can find my mistake... Please let me know

Greetings from Germany!

 

[Sterophonick]

Hello y'all,

I'm relatively new to all of this, and up to this point I've always been a quiet reader of the forum
I created my own thumbnails for a few Homebrew GBA Games etc., but the skinning is driving me nuts! I edited some icons, and after that it won't compile... See the attached screenshots.

IDK if any of this helps, I'm a complete noob when it comes to programming and stuff like that

What I found out by myself tho is, that the build.bat file needs to be adjusted to where your devkitPro is installed. Is that right? Because if you edit build.bat, it mentions the directory of devkitPro (or where it would be by default) a few times and I changed every line where this is the case, idk if I made a mistake here?

If any of you can find my mistake... Please let me know

Greetings from Germany!

It's finding the compiler correctly, but what appears to be most likely is that one or more of the icons isn't named correctly.

Consult these two images. The small image is the correct name syntax.

 

[Markusjuan]

Hello guys
Is there a way to put a background picture to the ez flash omega DE?thanks in advance

 

[Markusjuan]

I want to put a backgroud picture is that possible?

 

[magic_maik]

It's finding the compiler correctly, but what appears to be most likely is that one or more of the icons isn't named correctly.

Consult these two images. The small image is the correct name syntax.

Thank you for your answer and your time, however, I believe that I am doing it right, but it still isn't working...

I found out that the code in the original file, for example icons.h, differs from what Usenti throws out as icons.c, even if I dont edit the image. I marked the stuff in red.
I made 2 screenshots showing the original icons.h from your source (image 1) and then the icons.c file that I get after exporting the unedited icons.bmp from the source with Usenti (second image). The number in brackets differs and also the what I believe is a hex code? If I'm not wrong, it shouldn't differ as the image was not edited by me here.
I double checked the Usenti settings from your guide and renamed the file ending to .h and also changed "XXXBitmap[1234]" to "gImage_XXX[1234]", not changing the numbers in brackets or anything else of it.

Also what I marked blue, differs from the original. Is this where the error comes from? I will try that out in a minute.

Thank you for your time, much appreciation for your projects!

 

[Sterophonick]

Thank you for your answer and your time, however, I believe that I am doing it right, but it still isn't working...

I found out that the code in the original file, for example icons.h, differs from what Usenti throws out as icons.c, even if I dont edit the image. I marked the stuff in red.
I made 2 screenshots showing the original icons.h from your source (image 1) and then the icons.c file that I get after exporting the unedited icons.bmp from the source with Usenti (second image). The number in brackets differs and also the what I believe is a hex code? If I'm not wrong, it shouldn't differ as the image was not edited by me here.
I double checked the Usenti settings from your guide and renamed the file ending to .h and also changed "XXXBitmap[1234]" to "gImage_XXX[1234]", not changing the numbers in brackets or anything else of it.

Also what I marked blue, differs from the original. Is this where the error comes from? I will try that out in a minute.

Thank you for your time, much appreciation for your projects!

First image has the settings to change in Usenti marked. Second image has the settings corrected.

 

[magic_maik]

First image has the settings to change in Usenti marked. Second image has the settings corrected.

That was not the problem, but I found it out by myself
The .h files under source>images use different type of code than the files in its subfolders, so source>images>dark and source>images>light.
The Usenti settings you give in the guide are only right for the images contained in source>images, but not for the ones in source>images>dark and source>images>light.
The right settings that I found for these are marked in the pictures below ("u8" instead of "u16").

Spoiler: Right settings for images in source>images

Spoiler: Right settings for images in source>images>dark/light

Also I made simple, different color scheme as soon as I got it working! Wanted to share this too

Spoiler: My purple version of Simple

Greetings!

 

[Sterophonick]

That was not the problem, but I found it out by myself
The .h files under source>images use different type of code than the files in its subfolders, so source>images>dark and source>images>light.
The Usenti settings you give in the guide are only right for the images contained in source>images, but not for the ones in source>images>dark and source>images>light.
The right settings that I found for these are marked in the pictures below ("u8" instead of "u16").

Spoiler: Right settings for images in source>images

View attachment 291483

Spoiler: Right settings for images in source>images>dark/light

View attachment 291484

Also I made simple, different color scheme as soon as I got it working! Wanted to share this too

Spoiler: My purple version of Simple

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Greetings!

THAT LOOKS SO GOOD!

 

[daddu3]

Heyy, been really amazed by the progress made on this theme. Little sad to see you go but you have done a ton for us on enjoying EZ Flash to it's fullest @Sterophonick!

Anyway, I haven't ended really talking about it for a long while but I noticed that Jagoomba doesn't look to save the configurations for the game settings inside (say I wanna boot it t SGB over GBC on Display-settings) - this seems related to the issues I talked around a year ago regarding how Goomba Paletted-build boots me on empty EZ Flash-menu and also the Goomba Color-fork inside not also saving game configurations from it's settings.

You said something about reset codes, can I somehow implement it myself to fix at least the first bug?

Through some of my own testing in the past with different plugins, I found that if the exit and soft reset is performed real wonky, it can cause the SD card to not be initialized in the menu. I was able to mitigate this using an swi 0x26 instead of an swi 0x01 during the reset code.

 

[Sterophonick]

Heyy, been really amazed by the progress made on this theme. Little sad to see you go but you have done a ton for us on enjoying EZ Flash to it's fullest @Sterophonick!

Anyway, I haven't ended really talking about it for a long while but I noticed that Jagoomba doesn't look to save the configurations for the game settings inside (say I wanna boot it t SGB over GBC on Display-settings) - this seems related to the issues I talked around a year ago regarding how Goomba Paletted-build boots me on empty EZ Flash-menu and also the Goomba Color-fork inside not also saving game configurations from it's settings.

You said something about reset codes, can I somehow implement it myself to fix at least the first bug?

I don't think that with Jagoomba Color it'll fix it, I believe the problem lies with the way it saves configuration data.

If needed I'll compile separate versions of Jagoomba that force SGB on for both Omega and Base cartridges, like I did not too long ago. How's that sound?

 

[magic_maik]

@Sterophonick
I got one last question regarding the skinning of the EZ-Flash.
The Splash screen Image, or more specific, the .h file of it in your source code shows this comment in the first line of the code:

Spoiler: (screenshot)

Is it not safe to change it?
If so, why?
Greets!

 

[daddu3]

If needed I'll compile separate versions of Jagoomba that force SGB on for both Omega and Base cartridges, like I did not too long ago. How's that sound?

If it's not too much trouble, then sure. Could you set it as "Prefer GBC over SGB"? Mainly would enable the borders while keeping GBC-colorization.

 

[Sterophonick]

@Sterophonick
I got one last question regarding the skinning of the EZ-Flash.
The Splash screen Image, or more specific, the .h file of it in your source code shows this comment in the first line of the code:

Spoiler: (screenshot)

View attachment 291755

Is it not safe to change it?
If so, why?
Greets!

That's output by the tool. That should only apply if the data is compressed, which it shouldn't be. Ignore it.

 

[ZiggityZeke]

I would kill for a pure black theme for the EZ Flash Omega...

 

[D2DEZEL92]

Hello, would it be possible to update the GBC emulator to have the vibrations as on the last official update for EZ Flash DE

 

[EvilJagaGenius]

Hello, would it be possible to update the GBC emulator to have the vibrations as on the last official update for EZ Flash DE

I'm not sure. I only have a stock Omega, not a DE to test with. It looks like EZ-Flash uploaded the source for their rumble-patched Goomba, though, so it seems possible.