Homebrew [Tutorial] How to make a custom badge

[ultramario1998]

Also, is there a program out there that could generate these icon shapes from an on-screen GUI or an imported image file (where white pixels are made to equal 0 and colored pixels are set to F)? I'm not a programmer yet, but I would make something like that if I could...

Unfortunately for my sanity, there is not.

 

[PF2M]

Could we use a method like this for editing images in other games? (e.g. Animal Crossing New Leaf TPC Card portrait editing, Pokemon Art Academy art editing) I tried using hex editing to replace my AC:NL portrait and I was able to extract my villager's picture, but injecting it back in after editing resulted in the AC:NL editor I used throwing an error at me. It'd be cool to mess with Miiverse by doing stuff like that, but I can't figure out how to fully edit them, so does anyone know?

 

[Damin72]

shape data can now be dumped and written

Download




formula for bclim and shape I used is: (0x318F80 + ((0x2800 * BADGENUMBER) - BADGENUMBER)) and ((0x31AF80 + (0x2800 * BADGENUMBER) - BADGENUMBER))
bclim 0x2000 bytes and shape 0x800 bytes for reading and writing

now, bed time ... it's 4:47am o.O

Can't launch programm on Win8.1 RUS. How to fix?

 

[DaBlackDeath]

Can't launch programm on Win8.1 RUS. How to fix?

I have tested this on my Win8.1 VirtualPC and it runs fine.
Win8.1 GER
Maybe you need .NET Framework 4. You can get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/de-de/download/details.aspx?id=17718

 

[Damin72]

I have tested this on my Win8.1 VirtualPC and it runs fine.
Win8.1 GER
Maybe you need .NET Framework 4. You can get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/de-de/download/details.aspx?id=17718

Nope. Allready Installed. =( And... This file "freeze" in the "System". How stop it- i don't know... =(

 

[Deleted member 373223]

Nope. Allready Installed. =( And... This file "freeze" in the "System". How stop it- i don't know... =(

freeze the windows or the 3ds system? if is the 3ds just yutn on the 3ds without sd.

 

[Mega-Mew]

Could we use a method like this for editing images in other games? (e.g. Animal Crossing New Leaf TPC Card portrait editing, Pokemon Art Academy art editing) I tried using hex editing to replace my AC:NL portrait and I was able to extract my villager's picture, but injecting it back in after editing resulted in the AC:NL editor I used throwing an error at me. It'd be cool to mess with Miiverse by doing stuff like that, but I can't figure out how to fully edit them, so does anyone know?

Yeah it's possible with acnl

Spoiler

It work like my tutorial

 

[Damin72]

freeze the windows or the 3ds system? if is the 3ds just yutn on the 3ds without sd.

Programm freeze...

 

[Deleted member 373223]

Programm freeze...

ah. then i don't know how to help you.

 

[DaBlackDeath]

Programm freeze...

strange, I just tried the app on Win7 64bit, Win8.1 64bit, Win10 64bit and my old WinXP SP3 32bit.
No freezes or errors. Sorry, I'm out of ideas.

 

[Damin72]

strange, I just tried the app on Win7 64bit, Win8.1 64bit, Win10 64bit and my old WinXP SP3 32bit.
No freezes or errors. Sorry, I'm out of ideas.

Well. Thanks for that. I try to fix this problem... =)

 

[DaBlackDeath]

hmmm, is anyone working on Shape editor/converter ?
I'm too stupid to load the data in correct way. Could need some help how to load the 3DS tiles from byte array to get the correct result.
For now I can load shape/png and convert shape <-> png. Of course not the correct format because I dont know what formula I have to use to read the byte array in C#.

this is how my little "not proper working" app look

so if anyone know how to solve the tiles array reading...feel free to let me know

 

[PF2M]

Yeah it's possible with acnl

Spoiler

It work like my tutorial

Which tutorial? I couldn't find one.
Do you mean the one on this post? I didn't see anything in there that worked for ACNL.
I know how to get to my picture's offset and take the picture out, but I can't get it back in. Can you show how to do that?

 

[101239]

despite making a thread about if you should update, i dont vene know if i should update to 10.3. good job! if i ever decide on 10.3 ill give this top priority.

 

[Ericzander]

Hey guys, so my video tutorials are up now for anyone struggling! I have two of them, one using the extdata tool method (homebrew) and the second using savedatafiler (emuNAND)

Here is the homebrew method.

And here is the emuNAND method.

 

[Mattshark]

hmmm, is anyone working on Shape editor/converter ?
I'm too stupid to load the data in correct way. Could need some help how to load the 3DS tiles from byte array to get the correct result.
For now I can load shape/png and convert shape <-> png. Of course not the correct format because I dont know what formula I have to use to read the byte array in C#.

this is how my little "not proper working" app look

so if anyone know how to solve the tiles array reading...feel free to let me know

I do not know the formula for figuring it out, but I do know the general format:


(Yes, this was made in less than 5 minutes with paint; I don't have any fancier way of making images)

Each number represents ONE hex digit, as Steveice10 mentioned a few posts back (a single # is only one 0 or F, not an 00 or FF).
So this code:

Would create a shape:

Hope this helped!

 

[RetroBitMig]

Does anyone know why after the first time I dumped the BadgeData.dat, it doesn't dump anymore? It just says "Copy failed!"

 

[RetroBitMig]

The shading data is in the usual 3DS tiled format (some information on that here: http://3dbrew.org/wiki/SMDH#Icon_graphics). Each half-byte (single F or 0) represents 1 pixel.

While I'm at it, I'd like to point out that the image data is NOT a BCLIM. It's just raw pixel data in the tiled format, which ends up working with a matching BCLIM header attached.

So, this means I can do an 0F and get one invisible and one visible pixel?

 

[DaBlackDeath]

yep, that's correct.
0F = 1x transparent 1x visible

 

[RetroBitMig]

yep, that's correct.
0F = 1x transparent 1x visible

Awesome, that means my manual counting has not gone wrong yet!