Smb3 Skin In The Works!

[Sonic-NKT]

really nice skin!
but i think it would be better if all icons have the same kind of pixels. (big or small) i like in your skin the big, retro looking ones better.

we need a skin selector in a new version of the firmware (without writing to nand every time)
btw, this should be quite easy with symlinks...

PS: the gp2x logo is awesome

 

[Rayek]

i agree, sonic, but not everything's so small or large... i was going to edit the video one to only accept three lines and stretch them out to fill the space, and do the same for ebook icon. still, it's a start.

thanks for all the comments!

btw, if noone can see it, mario is the only difference between on/off icons, so he moves from one to the other, kind of like the levels in the game!

ideas: make mario different, like fire mario, or big mario, or frog mario, depending on what the background level is.

 

[Rayek]

i've made the necessary changes... thanks for the input!

edit:

 

[Natrius]

Too bad we can't have "background music" in the menu..
It would be cool to have a SMB 3 song in the background while being in the menu..

 

[Sonic-NKT]

you could easily have
just write a script which replaces the gp2xmenu.
then put into this script that first a mp3 (or whatever player), which runs in background, gets started and then the original gp2xmenu.
really easy to do. but if you do something wrong your gp2x could be a brick for some time

 

[Rayek]

i wanted that, but i can't code anything. i might as well be doing gymnastics or tai chi without any training. i'd look like a bumbling fool. i wanted to know that in the other thread because i wanted to see if i could animate the icons, so mario could go into tubes, and a that sound could play when you select a menu... it would be a nice touch!

 

[Sonic-NKT]

you dont really have to code.. i wanted to try the mp3 player thing when i have time, maybe i can even use a precompiled debian arm package
than it would be really easy. ok we will see.

edit:
hmm tried several things, even the gp2x mplayer binary but none played the mp3.
tried this
#/bin/sh
cd /usr/bin
./mplayer /mnt/sd/test.mp3
cd /usr/gp2x
./gp2xmenu

but it didnt worked, after seeing 1 second a black screen it started the gp2xmenu again.
strange that mplayer didnt play the mp3, argh i need console output

 

[Rayek]

i don't even have my gp2x, no linux, no nothing. no ARM toolchain or whatever. the closest thing to programming i've done is editing files in DOS. so, if you're checking it out, that's cool, i'm just saying that i'm as inable at programming as a stubbie is at swimming.

i've added the minor fixes, scroll up for the preview image (i'm just replacing them)...

 

[Sonic-NKT]

you may just need some scripting, its like editing the autoexec.bat of dos.

 

[Rayek]

thanks for trying, i really don't have time to learn a new programming language today, but i did as one of my linux aquaintances if he a) knew about the gp2x b) if he would teach me how to code for linux and c) where he learned to code for linux. he didn't have answers for any of them, because neither i or him had the time for it, but he was really interested in the gp2x.

 

[iignotus]

The "Explorer" icon seems like it is aligned too far to the right in the skin, and it seems like "Music" and "Utility" can stand to be aligned a pixel or two closer to "Photo" and "Settings", respectively.


That being said, this skin is FANTASTIC! I will definitely be using it when those things are fixed (unless I'm completely imagining them ).

 

[Rayek]

it all has to do with the size of the icons. the word 'explorer' simply couldn't fit into the normal size of icon, and so i made a larger one so as not to throw the whole size thing off. also, i found out that the gp2x aligns the icons based on their top-left corner, as i tried to make a fullscreen loading splashscreen, and it only showed that corner.

unless there's a hidden way of arranging the icons that i have no clue about, i really can't do anything about that.

[edit: you're definitely not imagining them ... i noticed that when i was making it, unfortunately... lol]

 

[Rayek]

actually, i found out a way... it says 'explorer, but i could make it say 'explore'... long shot but i'll see how it turns out.

 

[Rayek]

Finished the battery page.
view it here.

i placed the background perfectly so it looks as if mario and the bone koopa are actually on the ground.

will add ghost and a pipe from the ceiling.

edit: done.

 

[Drak]

Finished the battery page.
view it here.

i placed the background perfectly so it looks as if mario and the bone koopa are actually on the ground.

will add ghost and a pipe from the ceiling.

edit: done.

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NICE battery status!

 

[Rayek]

finished the 'not supported file' splashscreen, world five castle compiled with a world one, level three box...

 

[Rayek]

finished the movie selector background, all from the pyramid level of world 2:

 

[Rayek]

finished the explorer page:

the ebook page:

and i chose a font, i'm previewing the movie page:

it's definitely coming along! so many little things to do...