[Tutorial] How to Create XMB Themes

[Peza]

Nice guide mutevict1m! Thread stickied.

[mutevict1m]

Thanks, hopefully people will see it and learn how

[Mudbone]

Wow man!! Great job putting this all together!!

i would maybe add xander's scrambles gui.. a bit easier to use in my opinion! just my 2cents lol

[stuart93]

Brilliant tutorial, this will help a lot of people for sure, and maybe get some more creativity in the PSP Theme scene.

[Psyko]

This is what I call a tutorial
Details, screenshots and almost all programs you need

This thread really deserves the sticky it got

[PSPFreak2007]

Thanks now i can finish my idea from ages ago

[tuyul41]

Excellent guide!

question..

TIPS:

- If your running low on resources (Images are disappearing) then lower the quality of the image, or make it a bit smaller.

does this mean that the psp won't be able to handle high quality icons? or does it just depend on the file size of each icons?

i'd like to try n create a theme.. but i'd like to keep the quality of each icons. like keeping various colours without being pixelated. So what is the largest file size for each icon can the psp handle before it starts to pixelate?

Thank you!

[Akira]

Looks very nice but I got a bit more of specific question and I'm doing some research on how to make themes because I'll download a theme and want to tweak it a tiny bit.

So here's my question: when my PSP starts up, the normal XMB waves can be seen for a small bit and they are moving erratically which annoys the hell out of me, how would I go about changing this?

[mutevict1m]

Originally Posted by tuyul41

Excellent guide!

question..



does this mean that the psp won't be able to handle high quality icons? or does it just depend on the file size of each icons?

i'd like to try n create a theme.. but i'd like to keep the quality of each icons. like keeping various colours without being pixelated. So what is the largest file size for each icon can the psp handle before it starts to pixelate?

Thank you!

It is capable of supporting high quality icons, as long as they arent humongous. They must be a reasonable size. The psp will not pixelate the icons, if it cant handle it then it will not show at all.

Originally Posted by starfox444

Looks very nice but I got a bit more of specific question and I'm doing some research on how to make themes because I'll download a theme and want to tweak it a tiny bit.

So here's my question: when my PSP starts up, the normal XMB waves can be seen for a small bit and they are moving erratically which annoys the hell out of me, how would I go about changing this?

I'm not sure about this question.

[tuyul41]

what about the image format? does it only support .png? or is it possible to substitute them with formats such as .gif for animation?