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It's about time I've done some sort of update for all the themes I've created. A long while back, Aurelio made it so you could easily make any 640x480p or 800x480p image your background or "theme" for RVLoader (depending on if your portable's screen is 4:3 or 16:9). After this update, my themes became obsolete, and not long after that, they became outdated. Nowadays they're so outdated that they kinda break RVLoader. For this reason I recommend against using my old themes, although I will be leaving them up for preservation purposes.
With all this said, I won't be updating the themes themselves since they're just going to break eventually anyways. Instead, I'm going to release the backgrounds for each one of them and in this thread, I'll explain how to update to just using backgrounds instead. I'm going to assume you already have the latest version of RVLoader installed, and you're already using one of my old outdated themes. If you don't have the latest version of RVLoader installed, then step 0 will be to update RVLoader which can be found here.
First, you're gonna want to connect your portable's file system to your computer and navigate to the "rvloader" folder. Within that folder there should be another folder titled "themes" (the "/rvloader/themes" directory). In this folder you'll probably have a folder named "main" along with folders named something else such as "Zelda Theme 1 - By Cyframe" - you'll want to delete all the folders in here except for "main".
Now, if you want to update the background or "theme" you were using before, download the archive I've attached, and navigate through it until you find the background image you want to use.
Back out of the "themes" folder, go into the "backgrounds" folder (the "/rvloader/backgrounds/" directory), and copy the background(s) you want to use into there.
When you're done, you can disconnect your portable, turn it on, and navigate to the settings menu in RVLoader. From here go to the "Loader" tab, and then under "Background image:" toggle through the background image you want to use. Once you've found the one you want to use, go down to "Save config" and press A. RVLoader will automatically set the image you selected as your new background.
Congrats! You've now updated to using a background! Backgrounds don't have the same set of visual features that themes did. But they're much easier for people to put together, and are a future proofed version of the themes of yesteryear.
Since backgrounds are much easier to make, I'll probably be posting backgrounds for RVLoader more readily. It really is just a matter of resizing an image you find on the internet to either 640x480, or 800x480. So feel free to make your own background images compatible with RVLoader!
Below are the pngs I ripped from the old themes as well as some new backgrounds I made. You can click on the preview for each of these and download them for your own use:
Mario backgrounds(No 16:9 support):
Zelda backgrounds:
Steins;Gate backgrounds(No 16:9 support):
Here are some extra backgrounds I cropped for this:
With all this said, I won't be updating the themes themselves since they're just going to break eventually anyways. Instead, I'm going to release the backgrounds for each one of them and in this thread, I'll explain how to update to just using backgrounds instead. I'm going to assume you already have the latest version of RVLoader installed, and you're already using one of my old outdated themes. If you don't have the latest version of RVLoader installed, then step 0 will be to update RVLoader which can be found here.
First, you're gonna want to connect your portable's file system to your computer and navigate to the "rvloader" folder. Within that folder there should be another folder titled "themes" (the "/rvloader/themes" directory). In this folder you'll probably have a folder named "main" along with folders named something else such as "Zelda Theme 1 - By Cyframe" - you'll want to delete all the folders in here except for "main".
Now, if you want to update the background or "theme" you were using before, download the archive I've attached, and navigate through it until you find the background image you want to use.
Back out of the "themes" folder, go into the "backgrounds" folder (the "/rvloader/backgrounds/" directory), and copy the background(s) you want to use into there.
When you're done, you can disconnect your portable, turn it on, and navigate to the settings menu in RVLoader. From here go to the "Loader" tab, and then under "Background image:" toggle through the background image you want to use. Once you've found the one you want to use, go down to "Save config" and press A. RVLoader will automatically set the image you selected as your new background.
Congrats! You've now updated to using a background! Backgrounds don't have the same set of visual features that themes did. But they're much easier for people to put together, and are a future proofed version of the themes of yesteryear.
Since backgrounds are much easier to make, I'll probably be posting backgrounds for RVLoader more readily. It really is just a matter of resizing an image you find on the internet to either 640x480, or 800x480. So feel free to make your own background images compatible with RVLoader!
Below are the pngs I ripped from the old themes as well as some new backgrounds I made. You can click on the preview for each of these and download them for your own use:
Mario backgrounds(No 16:9 support):
Zelda backgrounds:
Steins;Gate backgrounds(No 16:9 support):
Here are some extra backgrounds I cropped for this:
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