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Ok I spent the last day and a half working on a Moonshell skin that resembles the DS Firmware. Yes I'm aware that there is already one out there, but mines quite a bit different.....I think. I never actually tried that skin, so if mine looks a bit like it...Its a coincedence!
Anyways, the primary feature of my skin is the custom boot animation and custom startup sounds. Everything else is rather basic, but should be easy on the eyes.
Here's a preview on what the startup animation will look like (please note that you must have Moonshel v1.71 or greater if you want to use my boot animation)
That gif file is a direct frame by frame copy of what I used, so what you see there is what you get! (except the bottom part of the image will be on the bottom screen of coarse!)
The name of the skin is: DS Moon-Firm
Download Page
install this FIRST) http://gbatemp.net/index.php?download=2784
V1.1 Upgrade: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?download=2786
v1.1 Startup/shutdown audio correction pack: http://www.mediafire.com/?o4m374j3mxt (lol just a fancy way of saying I updated the startup sounds to the currect ones)
Don't ask how I made the boot animation, its Level 9 security clearance access only....Just kidding. I simply dumped my DS Firmware into No$GBA and used a screencap program to record the bootup animation from the emulator.
This boot animation was done using only MS-Paint and the skin maker program that goes with Moonshell. I used Ulead GIF Animator to make the preview GIF you see above. And no I didn't just screencap it and animate it. If you look act it carefully, you will notice that i changed the Nintendo logo on the top screen (the one in inside the oval) to read "Moonshell" instead. Due to that fact that part of the image fades in and out during animation, it wasn't a simple and quick editing job. Especially since I only used MS-Paint to edit. I would have edited the bottom screen to read "Ignore the Touch screen to continue" but since that part of the animation only plays during that last part and only displays for a second or less, I didn't see it worth the time to do. (it would have taken awhile!)
Also the startup sounds plays AFTER the boot up screen.Unless someone here knows how to get the startup sound to play DURING the boot up animation, then I'm stuck with it like this. But its only a minor drawback.
Sorry, I don't have screencaps of the theme itself, but the boot screen should be enough to convince you to try it!.
Sorry in advance if my boot up animation is just as annoying as the offical Nintendo version
Feedback please! ;D
UPDATE:
I have made some improvements to the boot animation. I also fixed a bmp file. This warrented another upload.
V1.1 update package can be found here:
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?download=2786
Make sure you have installed v1.0 FIRST, before installing this. GIF animation above, has been updated to reflect the improvements in the animation.
Change log:
v1.0 - Skin created
v1.1 -
Removed compression artifacts and deleted a duplicate frame. The video capture software software I used left minor compression artifacts in the animation. The duplicate frame made the animation "appear" to lag abit. I thought it was just Moonshell having trouble with it, but later found that the animation lag was present in the GIF preview file as well. I deleted the duplicate frame and solved the issue.
Made a change to c_text.bmp so that it would look better when used on the bottom screen.
That's about it for now. Unless I find a major flaw somewhere, this should be the last update for this.
To better show what I did the the animation here is the old and new version side by side:
Old Version-->
Anyways, the primary feature of my skin is the custom boot animation and custom startup sounds. Everything else is rather basic, but should be easy on the eyes.
Here's a preview on what the startup animation will look like (please note that you must have Moonshel v1.71 or greater if you want to use my boot animation)
That gif file is a direct frame by frame copy of what I used, so what you see there is what you get! (except the bottom part of the image will be on the bottom screen of coarse!)
The name of the skin is: DS Moon-Firm
Download Page
install this FIRST) http://gbatemp.net/index.php?download=2784V1.1 Upgrade: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?download=2786
v1.1 Startup/shutdown audio correction pack: http://www.mediafire.com/?o4m374j3mxt (lol just a fancy way of saying I updated the startup sounds to the currect ones)
Don't ask how I made the boot animation, its Level 9 security clearance access only....Just kidding. I simply dumped my DS Firmware into No$GBA and used a screencap program to record the bootup animation from the emulator.
This boot animation was done using only MS-Paint and the skin maker program that goes with Moonshell. I used Ulead GIF Animator to make the preview GIF you see above. And no I didn't just screencap it and animate it. If you look act it carefully, you will notice that i changed the Nintendo logo on the top screen (the one in inside the oval) to read "Moonshell" instead. Due to that fact that part of the image fades in and out during animation, it wasn't a simple and quick editing job. Especially since I only used MS-Paint to edit. I would have edited the bottom screen to read "Ignore the Touch screen to continue" but since that part of the animation only plays during that last part and only displays for a second or less, I didn't see it worth the time to do. (it would have taken awhile!)
Also the startup sounds plays AFTER the boot up screen.Unless someone here knows how to get the startup sound to play DURING the boot up animation, then I'm stuck with it like this. But its only a minor drawback.
Sorry, I don't have screencaps of the theme itself, but the boot screen should be enough to convince you to try it!.
Sorry in advance if my boot up animation is just as annoying as the offical Nintendo version
Feedback please! ;D
UPDATE:
I have made some improvements to the boot animation. I also fixed a bmp file. This warrented another upload.
V1.1 update package can be found here:
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?download=2786
Make sure you have installed v1.0 FIRST, before installing this. GIF animation above, has been updated to reflect the improvements in the animation.
Change log:
v1.0 - Skin created
v1.1 -
Removed compression artifacts and deleted a duplicate frame. The video capture software software I used left minor compression artifacts in the animation. The duplicate frame made the animation "appear" to lag abit. I thought it was just Moonshell having trouble with it, but later found that the animation lag was present in the GIF preview file as well. I deleted the duplicate frame and solved the issue.
Made a change to c_text.bmp so that it would look better when used on the bottom screen.
That's about it for now. Unless I find a major flaw somewhere, this should be the last update for this.
To better show what I did the the animation here is the old and new version side by side:
Old Version-->
