Hacking Skin: R4PSP

[Katalyst]

Added teal color.

 

[Deleted User]

These are good. I'll be using the black one for sure. I was going to use the tribal one but these are better. Thank-you.

 

[Katalyst]

These are good. I'll be using the black one for sure. I was going to use the tribal one but these are better. Thank-you.

Yeah, herge1's black version looks like it'd go good with a black DS. The grey one I did looks like it'd be pretty smooth with grey DS's. And both the blue and teal go really good with white.

 

[skfields01]

Very very nice. Love the simplicity of them. I think having things uncluttered is so much nicer looking. Kudos.

Maybe try a few other colors... Burgandy, Yellow, Purple, Orange. Try them a bunch of ways. The more we have to choose from... the more everyone will have a different looking setup.

 

[Nenyana]

These skins are the best I have seen so far, they are uncluttered, professional and clean. I am using the blue one on my White DS. I also like the wavy lines in the background since I am used to this being on the XMB of my Psp. Thanks for creating these skins. By the way, the R4 is the best card I have ever used and the only one so far that plays Ultimate Spiderman flawlessly!!

 

[Kosmo]

Very sexy Kat. Nice job!

 

[KINGOFNOOBS]

Sorry for leeching your skins guys, but it looks great on M3 Simply

 

[ZAFDeltaForce]

Thanks for the killer skins! Anyone know how to change the color of the font in the Game menu? With the black skin, I can barely see any of the font...

 

[tacklebox]

awesome job, guys.

 

[skfields01]

I am using these skins on both my R4 and M3 Simply. Works the same.

Katalyst... I found these on my computer from my PSP days. Thought you might be able to use some of these for different styles if you like. Got them in a ton of colors too.

 

[dazinith]

i tried out the skins (which look good btw!) and noticed that the skins are apparently down sampled to a lower color depth on the R4..

in other words, while the color changes in your skins look great on the PC, when they are displayed on the R4 they show some serious color banding.. as a test i made a background with a gradient from black to white, and on the DS it was displayed as only 12 different colors..

it may be worth figuring out exactly how the color palette works on this thing, perhaps it uses a set 256 color palette of some sort? anyone know the details already?

 

[Densen]

I'm not sure if this is why because I don't have my R4 yet, but, I noticed on the R4 site that it says the following:

"Do not change the picture's name;
Make sure the picture is .bmp format, 8-bit/24-bit;
Make sure the picture is 256*192 pixels."

Does this mean that the photoshop default of 16-bit colour is not supported? As I said I can't test this theory, but someone might be able to. So maybe when saving a bmp in photoshop, try selecting 24-bit when the prompt appears.

Might work, might not.

 

[SkH]

Very good!!!

Could you make a Yellow and a Orange one?

Thanks!

 

[Katalyst]

Just did yellow and orange for ya SkH. Also did pink for the ladies (not to imply that only ladies would use the pink skin

). For those few who do have a pink DS, I can only imagine how good it would look on that ;p. Also did a dark red skin using the BG that skfields01 provided. Any other requests, just let me know. And yeah Densen, I did notice that earlier tonight. I'm probably gonna mess around with a few things and test some stuff, see what the deal is with that. iirc though, I do think I saved these as 24-bit.

EDIT: Alright, as far as the lowered color depth, apparently that's just how R4 shows them. I tried just about every option/combination of saving with different color depths. A lot didn't show up, the rest didn't change at all. I decided to even try dropping it down to indexed (256 colors only). Still didn't do a thing. So it's pretty much just save your skins with the info specified by the R4 site. Can't change the color depth it's showing them as. Hey, still looks good nonetheless

 

[ejp]

Nice - thanks for the hard work on these, they look great

 

[Preacher]

Something I would like is to have the PS-controller changed to something else something that has something to do with DS, like a cart or the image of the console, but in the same style as the other two icons...

It's not a request, just an idea... hopefully I can do it myself; only I'm not sure I can do it any good with shadows etc.

 

[manomanx2]

Is it just me or would the orange skin look frigging badass with the black DS lite?

 

[Katalyst]

Something I would like is to have the PS-controller changed to something else something that has something to do with DS, like a cart or the image of the console, but in the same style as the other two icons...

It's not a request, just an idea... hopefully I can do it myself; only I'm not sure I can do it any good with shadows etc.

Yeah, that's a decent idea. I was just using PSP's base logo's, doing that would actually take a bit of work

But give it a shot man, I won't stop ya ;o Eh, if I'm bored later on I might entertain the idea for a bit and try.

Is it just me or would the orange skin look frigging badass with the black DS lite?

I thought the same thing, don't have a black DS to test it on though. On a side note, I actually decided last night to try all of these (I had only put blue and teal on mine and just made the rest without testing). Orange looks pretty nice on a white DS and I'm liking the way pink looks

 

[mstaspawkl]

i dont have my r4 yet, its on its way, but im just loving these skins. what are ur guy's best/favorite combination DS and skin color.. so far i heard it was orange on both white and black DS.. or pink on white DS.... what are some other good ones?


i have a white one...

 

[Preacher]

I use the blue one with my White DS, never even bothered to try any of the other ones, although they all look good. And I bet the orange one won't look half bad with the white.

I'm now done with editing the blue PSPskin, combining it with the buttons that hmvh1 posted in:

Another thread about skins

I have a hard time believing I'll change that in the near future... although it would look better if it was possible to change the square boxes to just highlight the icons...