Hacking Photoshop Simplicity for custom banners

[CorteX_]

If you're creating custom banners, photoshop is a must-have.
This is basically a tutorial that explains how to take advantage of the wonderful features and apply them for use with custom banners

In this example, we're gonna turn DK Country 2 into Secret of Mana with beautiful banners.

First, if you don't know how to decrypt virtual console files, follow this tutorial: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=912...p;#entry1217272

Grab a picture you would like to use.
I used this one.
Right click it and select copy.

Start photoshop, and click file --> new.
Enter 256 for width, and 192 for height, also set it to 8-bit color.
I can't stress this enough.. an image bigger will fuck your wii up, so just stick to this tutorial.

Now hit ctrl+v and your image should appear, just way off bounds.
Press M and then right click the image and choose free transform.

Now resize the image around til it auto-snaps on the picture frame, it's a perfect fit

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If you like, make a few adjustments, I did.

Looks fine to me

Now click file --> save as and enter what you like, but make sure you save it as a BMP!
Then inject your banner as usual.

Now for the savegame part..
Open the file that contains the images for savegames and extract the last image (the one that says only SNES).
Now, open your extracted file with photoshop, and paste the image you would like to use (I used the same) into it, transforming it to make it fit again.
Check the layers tab on the right, select the layer you just pasted in and play with the opacity slider to make sure that some of the SNES logo comes thru.
Then save the files individually.
These are mine:

25% Opacity

75% Opacity

100% Opacity

Now for the boxart.. extract it and just transform the image again.

Like this..

Inject with injectuwad or whatever and enjoy!
CorteX

 

[djdynamite123]

good tutorial, well done

 

[Hideki-kun]

Uh, how do you "inject" a banner into a WAD? Because last time I checked you could only do it by unpacking the wad, ect...

 

[legend101]

good tutorial, well done

yes well done this might help me alot

 

[CorteX_]

Thanks for the feedback!

Uh, how do you "inject" a banner into a WAD? Because last time I checked you could only do it by unpacking the wad, ect...

You still have to unpack all the files, link is at the top.
This tutorial is only for safe banner creation, because most bricks occur due to oversized images etc.

 

[Hideki-kun]

Maybe we can start a custom channel tips thread? Like how to make reflections and stuff... Cuz I guess I could contribute to that.

Good Job, though.

 

[CorteX_]

Maybe we can start a custom channel tips thread? Like how to make reflections and stuff... Cuz I guess I could contribute to that.

Good Job, though.

Personally I'd like to see a big section in the wiki about everything, from injections to creating custom banners etc.
Then we can put all the bits and pieces from everyone together and have a ton of information instead of searching thru the forums

 

[ChronoX_]

Maybe we can start a custom channel tips thread? Like how to make reflections and stuff... Cuz I guess I could contribute to that.

Good Job, though.

Personally I'd like to see a big section in the wiki about everything, from injections to creating custom banners etc.
Then we can put all the bits and pieces from everyone together and have a ton of information instead of searching thru the forums

I believe everyone can add stuff to the Wiki, why don't you start and ask people to update it?

 

[gundalf]

What is the problem with VCIcon8.0 or even the Icon Injector?

@ T-Hideki// + CorteX_
We have allready an Thread

http://gbatemp.net/?act=ST&f=108&t=91206

But not all stuff is on the first page(NES Savebanner is on Page 17 and C64 on the last).
No one knows why it is not sorted and why it has no Sticky.