Hacking R4 DS skins

[ahsan]

Nice! Thanks for that bladerx

 

[xler8]

All you guys have made such quality, nice skins. I am really enjoing them. Unfortunately a terrible idea for an R4 skin came to mind. It may be the worst skin ever. Enjoy and please accept my apologies in advance.

** Note: Full skin is not safe for work. **

Concept preview:

Download >here

 

[bladerx]

Oh, my god

 

[BlueStar]

My wii skin was already uploaded on zShare however i have now also uploaded on Mavis's website.

Clicky



I dig the Wii skin. I dowonloaded it from zShare and found that it didnt work on my R4. R4 showed pac man icons (is that R4's default?). The bmps looked ok in win explorer tho, so I resaved them using 'BMP - uncompressed'. They work fine now.

Same happened to me, that must be the default I guess.

 

[its-my-right]

Hello, I am french so sorry if I do not speak very flawlessly.I wonder if the skin are just images ? I do not understand because how does the M3 simply understand when with the stylus you touch this icon or that icon ? I mean, Is there limits betweens different icons ? i wish i could explain what i want to say totally in English but it is quite hard for me

 

[iamwhoiam]

Hello, I am french so sorry if I do not speak very flawlessly.I wonder if the skin are just images ? I do not understand because how does the M3 simply understand when with the stylus you touch this icon or that icon ? I mean, Is there limits betweens different icons ? i wish i could explain what i want to say totally in English but it is quite hard for meÂ

They are just images... the user interface is just on top of that. The R4 doesn't know you're touching the icon beneath it, but it knows you're touching the area above it.

And the area is always in the same place and the same shape, you are merely changing the background.

Thats why many skins are using light backgrounds, because you can't change the black font for selecting games.

Hope that clears it up!

 

[Qpido]

You speak in a way most of us can understand, I believe.
I was thinking the same thing, I have no idea how the R4 recognises what pixels he should use as in icon.

Hope they aren't at a prefixed location on the screen.

Q~

 

[Katalyst]

You speak in a way most of us can understand, I believe.
I was thinking the same thing, I have no idea how the R4 recognises what pixels he should use as in icon.

Hope they aren't at a prefixed location on the screen.

Q~

Haha, I wish it did do that (recognized certain pixels to use as the icon). It just knows that when you touch the screen in this area, it goes to the game browser. I mean, I could use a skin that's a full image of just the color red, nothing else, and it'd still know when I press the area where the game icon would be to go the browser. Hence, templates are used so people know where to put the "icon" images in their skin layout.

 

[Kaphis]

they are at a prefixed location

 

[lexus-8]

My wii skin was already uploaded on zShare however i have now also uploaded on Mavis's website.

Clicky



I dig the Wii skin. I dowonloaded it from zShare and found that it didnt work on my R4. R4 showed pac man icons (is that R4's default?). The bmps looked ok in win explorer tho, so I resaved them using 'BMP - uncompressed'. They work fine now.

so how do you resave the bmps to BMP incompressed

 

[its-my-right]

Ok, I have understand, thanks a lot

I hope I will succeed to create my own skins, since I have just learnt how does layers system go.If I find them cool, I will post them

 

[xler8]

My wii skin was already uploaded on zShare however i have now also uploaded on Mavis's website.

Clicky



I dig the Wii skin. I dowonloaded it from zShare and found that it didnt work on my R4. R4 showed pac man icons (is that R4's default?). The bmps looked ok in win explorer tho, so I resaved them using 'BMP - uncompressed'. They work fine now.

so how do you resave the bmps to BMP incompressed

"BMP - uncompressed" is the save as type in Polyview (a simple image viewer/editor). (here)

If you save in photoshop, the default bmp, windows, 24bit should be fine. All working versions of the bmp's seem to be 145k. I don't know if this always means they will work, but it may be indicative of the correct bmp type.

 

[vlkyr]

Lol im noob at photoshop, Just installed it a few days ago, Havent touched it in a few years haha

You don't happen to have this up for download do you?

 

[Syntheticfish]

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=42021

Just finished my skin - only tested on M3
from what I hear should work on the R4 too

 

[bladerx]

My wii skin was already uploaded on zShare however i have now also uploaded on Mavis's website.

Clicky



I dig the Wii skin. I dowonloaded it from zShare and found that it didnt work on my R4. R4 showed pac man icons (is that R4's default?). The bmps looked ok in win explorer tho, so I resaved them using 'BMP - uncompressed'. They work fine now.



so how do you resave the bmps to BMP incompressed

"BMP - uncompressed" is the save as type in Polyview (a simple image viewer/editor). (here)

If you save in photoshop, the default bmp, windows, 24bit should be fine. All working versions of the bmp's seem to be 145k. I don't know if this always means they will work, but it may be indicative of the correct bmp type.

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.

 

[Kurai]

Sorry bud, i deleted that skin

 

[vlkyr]

Sorry bud, i deleted that skin

Aw why I love Linali

Any possibility of putting it together really fast again?

 

[xler8]

If anyone is using Photoshop 9.0, definitely get the patch for 9.02. Runs much better on my athlon64 3500+.

Download here

 

[Kurai]

Sorry bud, i will give it ago again

 

[BlueStar]

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