Hacking Nintendont Themes and Custom Mods

[AbdallahTerro]

what about Carbonic?

 

[JoostinOnline]

JoostinOnline anyway to make it so text can be changed in nintendon-t itself, like something in the options menu to change the text to basic colors like red,white,black,blue,green
it would be useful for the custom themes
or even have a secondary branch of nintendon-t that is only for custom themes that has this feature but it still gets updated with the nintendon-t master branch so no commits with the custom themes get mixed in to the official nintendon-t, possibly could use something like orphis.buildbot.net to keep the custom theme branch up to date with the newest commits from nintendon-t while retaining the themes.

Unless themes can be coded to be installed the same way you did it for powercheck

I don't want to be rude, but I'm getting tired of saying this. Custom theme support isn't ever going to be supported. I'll give suggestions for other people to make it work easier, but that's it. I'm struggling to make ends meat at home, so I don't have a ton of free time.

 

[NicoCP]

Well... I failed to make my custom mod

Some strange thing happens:
If I try to edit the position of some of the verbose loading info, when I load Nintendont and it shows the list of games available, it seems to doesn't read the names that are on titles.txt. I just can't understand why that happens! I mean, I only touched the position of some text of the loading screen

For example, if I change on main.c:
PrintFormat(DEFAULT_SIZE, BLACK, MENU_POS_X, MENU_POS_Y + 20*16, "Init CARD...");

To this:
PrintFormat(DEFAULT_SIZE, WHITE, MENU_POS_X + 47 * 6 - 8, MENU_POS_Y + 20*18+5, "Init CARD...");

Then it doesn't show the names correctly xD
I tested recompiling it many times, also with different SD cards, and always happens the same.

Those values that I put are because I wanted the text below some logo on the screen (on Y), and centered (on X).

Also, the same happens if I had another if like this:
if(STATUS_LOADING == 11) {
PrintFormat(DEFAULT_SIZE, WHITE, MENU_POS_X, MENU_POS_Y + 20*18+5, "Done!");
}

What I wanted to accomplish was something like this:

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Initial screen:

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Loading game screen: (here all the loading text would print on the same line, below the logo)

 

[OriginalHamster]

Where I find Nintendont source code? how download it? Do I need devkit pro?

 

[AbdallahTerro]

Well... I failed to make my custom mod

Some strange thing happens:
If I try to edit the position of some of the verbose loading info, when I load Nintendont and it shows the list of games available, it seems to doesn't read the names that are on titles.txt. I just can't understand why that happens! I mean, I only touched the position of some text of the loading screen

For example, if I change on main.c:
PrintFormat(DEFAULT_SIZE, BLACK, MENU_POS_X, MENU_POS_Y + 20*16, "Init CARD...");

To this:
PrintFormat(DEFAULT_SIZE, WHITE, MENU_POS_X + 47 * 6 - 8, MENU_POS_Y + 20*18+5, "Init CARD...");

Then it doesn't show the names correctly xD
I tested recompiling it many times, also with different SD cards, and always happens the same.

Those values that I put are because I wanted the text below some logo on the screen (on Y), and centered (on X).

Also, the same happens if I had another if like this:
if(STATUS_LOADING == 11) {
PrintFormat(DEFAULT_SIZE, WHITE, MENU_POS_X, MENU_POS_Y + 20*18+5, "Done!");
}

What I wanted to accomplish was something like this:

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Initial screen:

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Loading game screen: (here all the loading text would print on the same line, below the logo)

can you relink the screenies, dropbox links don't appear as images unless you put them in public folder

Where I find Nintendont source code? how download it? Do I need devkit pro?

checkout link for the source is on google code page, devkitpro is needed to compile, sliksvn or tortoisesvn to checkout

 

[OriginalHamster]

checkout link for the source is on google code page, devkitpro is needed to compile, sliksvn or tortoisesvn to checkout

Thanks, now that I think I have another problem XD, is there anyway to include UStealth + new background?
I use this page to get latest boot.dol with UStealth enabled but they are binaries, and don't contain source code.

I'd wish this theme:

 

[NicoCP]

can you relink the screenies, dropbox links don't appear as images unless you put them in public folder

Oops, sorry, fixed!

 

[AbdallahTerro]

Thanks, now that I think I have another problem XD, is there anyway to include UStealth + new background?
I use this page to get latest boot.dol with UStealth enabled but they are binaries, and don't contain source code.

I believe for ustealth you only need a modded libfat

Oops, sorry, fixed!

Not yet

 

[Acidflare]

Abz are you custom theme dol files always kept up to date with the master source code of nintendon-t? I tested that them I requested that you made, love it but I want to know if there is a way you are able to keep the themed dol files up to date with the nintendon-t master source code? the only thing that comes to my mind about autobuilding the new sources with the themes would be http://orphis.buildbot.net.

PPSSPP the psp emulator uses orphis.buildbot.net to keep the newest beta builds updated without having to manually build, compile, upload. http://orphis.buildbot.net takes care of all of that for them, maybe we can use the same setup for the custom themed dol files.

 

[NicoCP]

Not yet

Now?

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[AbdallahTerro]

Abz are you custom theme dol files always kept up to date with the master source code of nintendon-t? I tested that them I requested that you made, love it but I want to know if there is a way you are able to keep the themed dol files up to date with the nintendon-t master source code? the only thing that comes to my mind about autobuilding the new sources with the themes would be http://orphis.buildbot.net.

PPSSPP the psp emulator uses orphis.buildbot.net to keep the newest beta builds updated without having to manually build, compile, upload. http://orphis.buildbot.net takes care of all of that for them, maybe we can use the same setup for the custom themed dol files.

updating the source might be a pain and should be done manually.
Another thing, newer builds are not always stable, and I like to update only when it's worth it
if you want the sources I can share them here but it's already in OP anyways

 

[AbdallahTerro]

Now?

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ok I see them now
it seems your problem can be solved by replacing "20*18+5" and "47 * 6 - 8" you need trial and error to find the numbers but try not to incluce minus

 

[NicoCP]

Yeah, I'll try later maybe with other numbers (or put a single number and not a formula). I have to study for some finals now so I can't test it.

But it's strange that modifying some lines of code has an effect on other things totally unrelated... they're just prints xD
And it happens only with some of those prints: I managed to change the position of the "Init config..." but not the "Init CARD..." for example.
(What I mean is that it doesn't show the names found in the titles.txt if I change some of those prints)
Also, changing the background sometimes leads to the same issue.

Maybe I should give up and leave only the background

 

[AbdallahTerro]

we can ask joostinonline which part of the code is used for the position of titles then we know which part not to touch
I really don't care about making a new verbose mod, the official dol is great, I'm only interested in no verbose/ usb loader addin

 

[JoostinOnline]

we can ask joostinonline which part of the code is used for the position of titles then we know which part not to touch
I really don't care about making a new verbose mod, the official dol is great, I'm only interested in no verbose/ usb loader addin

https://code.google.com/p/nintendon-t/source/browse/trunk/loader/source/menu.c?spec=svn228&r=226#350

 

[AbdallahTerro]

that explains it then, he moved sd/usb to the bottom

 

[NicoCP]

But I never touched those lines xD Except, BLACK to WHITE.

All the changes I made were:

1. Changed all BLACK to WHITE in every PrintFormat (main.c, menu.c, loader.c, etc)
2. On menu.c, changed to position of "Returning to laoder...", "No games found in %s:/games !", "No FAT device found, or missing %s dir!", and commented some lines of PrintInfo() function (leave only the Nintendont's version).
3. On main.c, I carefully deleted all the if(STATUS_LOADING > ...).
4. On main.c, I changed one by one the position of the verbose, to the bottom center: for example, if the call to the PrintFormat included "MENU_POS_X, MENU_POS_Y +20*7", I changed it to "MENU_POS_X, MENU_POS_Y +20*18+5". I compiled each time I made a change to these, and the titles on the game menu showed correctly (that is, show the names that are in titles.txt). BUT, when I changed: PrintFormat(DEFAULT_SIZE,WHITE,MENU_POS_X,MENU_POS_Y+20*14, "Init HID devices..."); to PrintFormat(DEFAULT_SIZE,WHITE,MENU_POS_X,MENU_POS_Y+20*18+5, "Init HID devices..."); those games showed like there was no titles.txt file! If I leave that PrintFormat unchanged, it works (but of course, it doesn't show the loading text where I wanted it )

I just don't understand why that happens. I'm only changing the vertical position of the text in the loading screen of a game, nothing to do with the game menu list
Anybody can see the changes I made on this repository:
https://github.com/nicodiaz55/nintendont-mirror/commits/e72a1511ef52c2d5fd639310745e53935d317080

 

[Acidflare]

updating the source might be a pain and should be done manually.
Another thing, newer builds are not always stable, and I like to update only when it's worth it
if you want the sources I can share them here but it's already in OP anyways

So when the source code has had many improvements you intend to update the dols?

 

[AbdallahTerro]

So when the source code has had many improvements you intend to update the dols?

yes sure

 

[Acidflare]

yes sure

Sweet, I have no problems using a themed dol over the official ones if it gets updated every so often