Download needed icons and place them into sd:/_nds/TWiLightMenu/icons/
Icons should have exact rom name with extension included.
E.g. rom file named gbagame.gba
should have gbagame.gba.png
named icon placed into icons
folder.
You also could use custom icons for folders.
Just name your icon as the folder name
E.g. folder named NDS
would have NDS.png
named icon.
To use custom back button icon you should name file like ...png
(Yes, triple dot, two for folder name (1) and other for extension delimiter (2))
Download either GIMP (free) or Aseprite (paid for prebuild binaries but free if you can compile yourself).
As of this Twilight Menu commit:
The icon is converted from a regular PNG file to the nds banner icon format on the fly, so it’s subject to the same restrictions.
32x32
, and no more than15 solid colors with 1 transparent color
. As a fallback, images of the wrong size display as the unknown icon, while images with too many colors will render the extra colors as transparent.
So it means icon should be 32x32 pixels size and 16 colors maximum.
You can set first color in color palette as transparent.
(thats what worked for me at least, both for .png and .bin files)
Edit/draw needed icon how you like it.
Also you can make corner pixels transparent to make icon look nicer.
Before exporting image you need to set it to indexed mode.
Image > Mode > Indexed
Either Generate optimum palette
with Maximum number of colors
set to
or use custom palette with max 16 colors.
Sprite > Color Mode > Indexed
And choose needed color palette from left menu (folder icon).
You can set Palette Size
from the menu (burger icon right to the folder icon).
Then export image as .png
file.
Download NDS Banner Editor
You can use already existing .bin
banner to edit or create new.
File > New
So to make animation you need:
- Prepare
.png
images to import into Banner Editor. - Import them into each bitmap slot. (#1 and #2 on picture above)
- Add animation frames. (#4)
- Set bitmaps to animation frames. (#6)
- Set frame duration if needed. (#5)
- Set game title. (#3)
- And lastly, save
.bin
file.
Gameboy Icons | |||
Mr. Driller | Wario Land 1 | Wario Land 2 | Wario Land 3 |
Gargoyle’s Quest | |||
Misc Icons | |||
Back button | NDS Cartridge |
Feel free to open issue if you want to ask a question for now.
Later i either leave better way to contact me or make this readme better.