Hacking R4 DS skins

[jdearauj]

Could you put a few skins in folders on your card and swap them on the go with the DS Organise file browser? Or does the R4 lock system files or keep the skin files in use while it's on rather than loading them into the memory?

Of course the easy way for me to get an answer would be to try it myself

Let us know if you can do it! I would be interested to know...

 

[Killermech]

Could you put a few skins in folders on your card and swap them on the go with the DS Organise file browser? Or does the R4 lock system files or keep the skin files in use while it's on rather than loading them into the memory?

Of course the easy way for me to get an answer would be to try it myself

Works fine, copy the file one by one and paste them over the ones in the _system_ folder and they will get replaced.

 

[mflo]

A new skin I put together, I call it Nippon Sunrise

Download here I used desktop wallpapers I found on DeviantArt, I just cut them up,resized, and added my own stuff to them, they should be easy to point out

Buttons made by me. Btw, You don't have to leave the bckgrd_2 a blank color. It can be a picture since when you highlight a game, a white box will appear over the picture with the text inside it, so you'll still be able to read it.

 

[dazinith]

I've noticed the limited palette the M3/R4 interface displays and I use a little more complex method to make my skins look better, I export the images as gifs (256 colors, dithered) and then save them as 8 bit bmps. This way the images look exactly as planned.

hey, thanks for that tip, does that actually work? i hope so, that would help out a good bit of the skins i've made (and downloaded).. thanks again!

 

[mflo]

What is the difference between 8-bit and 24-bit?

 

[Kryptonic]

What is the difference between 8-bit and 24-bit?

16bits?

 

[mflo]

Lol, Very funny >.>

 

[Killermech]

What is the difference between 8-bit and 24-bit?

Color depth is a computer graphics term describing the number of bits used to represent the color of a single pixel in a bitmapped image or video frame buffer. This concept is also known as bits per pixel (bpp), particularly when specified along with the number of bits used. Higher color depth gives a broader range of distinct colors.

# 8-bit color (28 = 256 colors) Most early color Unix workstations, VGA at low resolution, Super VGA, AGA

QUOTE

24-bit Truecolor uses 8 bits to represent red, 8 bits to represent blue, and 8 bits to represent green. 28 = 256 levels of each of these three colors can therefore be combined to give a total of 16,777,216 mixed colors (256 x 256 x 256). Twenty-four-bit color is referred to as "millions of colors" on Macintosh systems.

Yay for wikipedia

 

[digital_sin]

hey mflo, can you please upload your skins on mavis's website, this filehost doesn't work for me.

http://www.mavisxp.com/r4

thanks

 

[mflo]

hey mflo, can you please upload your skins on mavis's website, this filehost doesn't work for me.

http://www.mavisxp.com/r4

thanks

Yeah, No problem.
Nippon Sunrise Here
Jun Natsukawa 1 here
Jun Natsukawa 2 here
FLCL-Orange here

 

[4saken]

Oh my, Nippon Sunrise looks so nice! Please make more

 

[BlueStar]

Yeah, I'm using Nippon Sunrise on my R4 at the mo. Looks great on my white DSL

 

[mflo]

Yeah, I'm using Nippon Sunrise on my R4 at the mo. Looks great on my white DSL

Heheheh, I knew it would look good on the white DS, Thats why I made it

 

[BlueStar]

Cheers dude, much appreciated

 

[mflo]

New skin, I call it "I heart SUSHI"

Download here

 

[digital_sin]

lol, i dont like sushi.

but i love your skin

 

[xler8]

New skin, I call it "I heart SUSHI"Â

 Download here

Subarashii!

 

[animalsex]

GUI

The icons are centered in the selection box
The line at the bottom lines up with the clock/selected info/etc
Games

The square in the middle lines up with the ROM information
The line at the top is the directory info thing

Download here

 

[Mars]

Can someone please, please, make a Homestar or The Cheat skin?

 

[mflo]

A skin I put together. The picture I used was created by Ketchup-Suicide from DeviantArt. His picture is titled "A few more hearts"I didn't add anything to the backgrounds because I felt that they shouldn't be changed.(Gotta give proper credit

)
The text on bckgrd_1 might not show up very well. Lets email R4 about giving us an option to change the text from black to white on the game selection screen. I WANT MY DSL AND R4 ALREADY! I WANT IT NAO~!
Download here