How to Skin the Supercard Menu - Discontinued

[CowFighter]

so i cant set the background color with just windows paint right? cause i do have photo shop except i dont know how to use it (i know i suck) :?

EDIT: Nevermind, i figured out how to do it. Made myself a Megaman themed one though its not great.

[Devil_Spawn]

im trying to make a skin and i was wonderin how u change the background colour?? or did i miss it in the tutorial

also can you recommend some software?

I use photoshop myself.

not confusin it helps loads

[Jabba]

I keep getting the message "it has not been possible to open firmware.gba"

[arcc]

I keep getting the message "it has not been possible to open firmware.gba"

Hard to say what could be wrong. Make sure its:

SD or CF v1.63 firmware only, extracted directly from your supercard.

My best guess is that you may have not had the most up-to-date version of the firmware on your supercard. If still you cannot get it to work you can try downloading the dumps from this page. (use at own risk)  

[Jabba]

Supercard SD v1.63 fimware, i guess i'll have to try the dumps... at my own risk, watch how i will regret this lol

[arcc]

Supercard SD v1.63 fimware, i guess i'll have to try the dumps... at my own risk, watch how i will regret this lol

Did it work out for ya?

[Jabba]

Erm, im confused by all the spanishness, lol, which one should i download? The second set on that page?

[arcc]

Erm, im confused by all the spanishness, lol, which one should i download? The second set on that page?

I think the first set, but not totally sure. I think the second set is their spanish translation.

[boldbull]

   This banner is limited to 16 colors, sucky,
   so you have to get creative with your skinning.

Actually it is possible to create banners with way more colors than 16. I succeeded in creating some tests with more than 128.



The process is to :
1) create a banner in full colors RGB mode.
2) reduce to Indexed Color
3) Modify your Color Table so #1 is main background, #128 is hover font and #142 is normal font
4) save optimized as a 8-PNG without changing depth color and you're done with a hi quality skin !

palette :


Result :

[arcc]

   This banner is limited to 16 colors, sucky,
   so you have to get creative with your skinning.

Actually it is possible to create banners with way more colors than 16. I succeeded in creating some tests with more than 128.

Oh, awesome! I shall give it a try as well. Will definately make for better skins.  

[boldbull]

Yeah, I think the race for the best SC skin can now start seriously  

[kalabaw]

im having trouble with the zelda and the pokemon skins. the buttons looks great and all but the bottom is all black. is there a way to fix this or am i doing something wrong? oh yea, the mario and sonic skins works great.

My bad. fixed now. You can renab them in my post above (be sure to refresh the page first) or re-download the lump.  Forgot to set the background color.

Thats what I get for posting banners I didn't test first. :3 I am apparently the king of little mistakes!

is your link scz.zip now fixed? cause there's no way i cant fix my sc if i mess up.. i dont have an extra flashcart and i dont have wifi connections :cry:   but i really wanted to skin my sc

[arcc]

is your link scz.zip now fixed? cause there's no way i cant fix my sc if i mess up.. i dont have an extra flashcart and i dont have wifi connections :cry:   but i really wanted to skin my sc

Yeah, I think the kinks have been worked out. Just follow everything step by step and you should be fine.  

[kalabaw]

your the first to know if i succeed!!!!

[ZAFDeltaForce]

Thanks for this great software!

I've got a problem though. When I rename my BIN file to 'firmware.gba', it remains a BIN file.

How do I change that BIN file into a GBA file?

Thanks!