ROM Hack [Tutorial] Edit the HomeMenu

[Zan']

Oh right, I forgot this shit...
Yeah, try to edit bat files, and change ONLY the name

Why not use systemapp.0000.* in the batch script? If that can't be passed rename it with
ren systemapp.0000.* 0.cxi
And then pass 0.cxi instead.
Or do a file exist check if you prefer that.

 

[Mr.ButtButt]

all i have are .bin files. When i try to decompress them, it says to save as, and there's no extention base.
so i have to choose what it's name is anddd it's extention..

 

[Asia81]

Why not use systemapp.0000.* in the batch script? If that can't be passed rename it with
ren systemapp.0000.* 0.cxi
And then pass 0.cxi instead.
Or do a file exist check if you prefer that.

I can of course, but it just an older script without the ren

 

[iAqua]

Should I install it through fbi to nand or sd? Im assuming nand. @Asia81

 

[Asia81]

nand, of course

 

[iAqua]

nand, of course

One more thing. What should the decrypted home menu files be named when first dumped? Im not sure what on my sd card is the decrypted files.

 

[Asia81]

Note: If you don't see any decrypted files, it's normal. Decrypt9WIP decrypt the game itself. Check the date, it can also be something like 01/01/2000.

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One more thing. What should the decrypted home menu files be named when first dumped? Im not sure what on my sd card is the decrypted files.

Note: If you don't see any decrypted files, it's normal. Decrypt9WIP decrypt the game itself. Check the date, it can also be something like 01/01/2000.

 

[iAqua]

Note: If you don't see any decrypted files, it's normal. Decrypt9WIP decrypt the game itself. Check the date, it can also be something like 01/01/2000.

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Note: If you don't see any decrypted files, it's normal. Decrypt9WIP decrypt the game itself. Check the date, it can also be something like 01/01/2000.

So the decrypted files should just be " Homemenu.cia "

 

[duffmmann]

So what exactly can this do besides change the wording on that screen? I guess what I'm ultimately looking to find out is, are we able to remove the 300 title limit with this?

 

[Mr.ButtButt]

it worked, first try <3
thank you everyone! Papa bless!

 

[chronoss]

Time to brick my 3DS, good luck for me

 

[Trinitro21]

I seem to be getting errors because of a missing Logo.bcma.LZ.

3dstool.exe -cvtf cxi SystemApp.0000.00000083 --header NCCH.Header --exh DecryptedExHeader.bin --exefs CustomExeFS.bin --romfs CustomRomFS.bin --logo Logo.bcma.LZ --plain PlainRGN.bin
load: NCCH.Header
load: DecryptedExHeader.bin
ERROR: open file Logo.bcma.LZ failed

load: PlainRGN.bin
load: CustomExeFS.bin
load: CustomRomFS.bin
ERROR: create file failed

MakeRom.exe -f cia -content SystemApp.0000.00000083:0:0x00 -o HomeMenu_Edited.cia
[CIA WARNING] Common Key could not be loaded, CIA will not be encrypted

 

[chronoss]

Time to brick my 3DS, good luck for me

It work very well , thanks @Asia81

 

[Faru]

Got it on my first try, fam.

Thanks @Asia81

 

[polarbernd]

Nice Tutorial! And... #TeamOnodera! (The best choice!)

 

[ultramario1998]

using mstb editor... doing tools>Manage LZ11>Decompress (or Compress) doesn't pop up anything. The Manage UMSBT option from the same menu does... is it just me? (also, 3ds explorer keeps trying to crash whenever I go to open the file. fun.)

 

[Ryccardo]

So what exactly can this do besides change the wording on that screen? I guess what I'm ultimately looking to find out is, are we able to remove the 300 title limit with this?

If someone with a disassembler wants to edit the decompressed .code.bin (as extracted by step1 it's compressed), maybe...

not that I would want anything close to 300 titles with the crap performance of any 9.0+ home menu!

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using mstb editor... doing tools>Manage LZ11>Decompress (or Compress) doesn't pop up anything. The Manage UMSBT option from the same menu does... is it just me? (also, 3ds explorer keeps trying to crash whenever I go to open the file. fun.)

Yeah, "mstb editor reloaded" is broken for that feature, use the plain "mstb editor" or the compression plugin in 3dsexplorer (not the main program itself, and remember to change compression from lz10 to lz11)!

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I seem to be getting errors because of a missing Logo.bcma.LZ.

It's normal, Home doesn't have a bootlogo, but those are more like warnings than errors!

 

[ZoNtendo]

cia editing ? Nothing new

 

[Halvorsen]

First, it told me to get a dll file. Got it, now this.

 

[Ryccardo]

Do you have an x64 system? IIRC at least one of the tools is 64-bit only...