After a decade of putting it off, I'm finally finishing up my Wii mod. I went with USB Loader GX because of it's abilities and versatility. I like all of the loaders capabilities but personally didn't need all of the buttons. I also felt that I wanted to rework the menu and make the GUI flow more for my wants and needs.
I'm a child of the 80's, so every Nintendo that came out after the NES was just a descendant of the original Nintendo Entertainment System. In my head the list goes like this:
NES
SNES
NES64
CubeNES
WiiNES
So naturally, I must dub this theme "Super WiiNES".
It's about 90% done. Have a bit more tweaking to do. I wanted to make it as true to form as I could for the Wii and it's era. The three big changes that make this theme different from any of the others out there are:
1) Pulled excess buttons. I figure if you need a button, revert back to vanilla theme. Trying to keep UX experience/flow clean here.
2) Stacked the buttons for the different cover flows into a rotation. Clicking in the same spot rotates through views. Seemed logical to me.
3) Added a custom center button. As Wii, GC, NAND, and vNAND are presented in main view, I wanted an easy way to access all my N64 and below emulators. Because USB Loader allows you to customize your homebrew folder path, this allowed me to make a custom emulator menu. Perfect.
This theme looks and works properly for both 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratios.
My questions to you are:
Are there any other improvements I can/should make? Suggestions?
What do you guys think? Thanks.
CaptainSmackdown
P.S. Please ignore the burnt out pixels in the bottom right corner of the screen. That's what happens when you have a two year that really loves his show...
I'm a child of the 80's, so every Nintendo that came out after the NES was just a descendant of the original Nintendo Entertainment System. In my head the list goes like this:
NES
SNES
NES64
CubeNES
WiiNES
So naturally, I must dub this theme "Super WiiNES".
It's about 90% done. Have a bit more tweaking to do. I wanted to make it as true to form as I could for the Wii and it's era. The three big changes that make this theme different from any of the others out there are:
1) Pulled excess buttons. I figure if you need a button, revert back to vanilla theme. Trying to keep UX experience/flow clean here.
2) Stacked the buttons for the different cover flows into a rotation. Clicking in the same spot rotates through views. Seemed logical to me.
3) Added a custom center button. As Wii, GC, NAND, and vNAND are presented in main view, I wanted an easy way to access all my N64 and below emulators. Because USB Loader allows you to customize your homebrew folder path, this allowed me to make a custom emulator menu. Perfect.
This theme looks and works properly for both 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratios.
My questions to you are:
Are there any other improvements I can/should make? Suggestions?
What do you guys think? Thanks.
CaptainSmackdown
P.S. Please ignore the burnt out pixels in the bottom right corner of the screen. That's what happens when you have a two year that really loves his show...
