Mega Guide for Theme Basics and Knowledge (3.90 and 4.01 CFW)

[atangg]

good job on this tutes!

[muny21]

i have been following your guide which is very good and full of detail but i am having a few problems. i am on firmware 4.01m33 and i have been able to create my own icons but the problem i am having is that the shadows of the original psp xmb icons are visible behind my icons. is there any way to remove them. also i would like to know how to increase the size of the xmb to allow for larger icons. and one final question. does anyone know the offsets for 4.01 . thanks for all your help.

[mutevict1m]

Originally Posted by muny21

i have been following your guide which is very good and full of detail but i am having a few problems. i am on firmware 4.01m33 and i have been able to create my own icons but the problem i am having is that the shadows of the original psp xmb icons are visible behind my icons. is there any way to remove them. also i would like to know how to increase the size of the xmb to allow for larger icons. and one final question. does anyone know the offsets for 4.01 . thanks for all your help.

heres a link for the offsets
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[muny21]

okay i was able to customize a few more things but i am still stuck with the psp xmb shadows behind my icons. anyone know how to fix it. and also how to increase the size of the xmb i am on 4.01m33 thanks for your help.

[mutevict1m]

just replace the shadows with a image that 1x1 pixels.

thats what i do

[muny21]

sorry if i am being a pain but i was just wondering if it was possible to make the xmb larger for 4.01. i saw a tut for it for 3.80 but can't find out how to do it for 4.01. by the way the advice you gave me so far has helped and it worked. thanks.

[osnap1584]

Originally Posted by muny21

sorry if i am being a pain but i was just wondering if it was possible to make the xmb larger for 4.01. i saw a tut for it for 3.80 but can't find out how to do it for 4.01. by the way the advice you gave me so far has helped and it worked. thanks.

what do you mean? You wanna make your icons bigger just replace shadows and glows in the top_menu_icon, top_menu_plugin, system_plugin, system_plugin_fg as stated. Follow the suggestions so you have disappearing icons when using bigger and high quality icons. You can use the offsets and set the space between main icons to space them out. Check back in the original thread since I update that often.

[muny21]

Yes i want to make the icons bigger. but i thought i had to increase the size of the xmb to do so because the original xmb icons are 64x64 and i thought i would have to increase the size of the xmb to be able to increase the size of the icons or can i just increase the icons and then set the space between them? i will try that while i wait for your reply. thanks for your help.

[osnap1584]

Originally Posted by muny21

Yes i want to make the icons bigger. but i thought i had to increase the size of the xmb to do so because the original xmb icons are 64x64 and i thought i would have to increase the size of the xmb to be able to increase the size of the icons or can i just increase the icons and then set the space between them? i will try that while i wait for your reply. thanks for your help.

You can have them a big as you want as long as it doesn't take up resources and make the icons disappear. You have hex edit the paf to set the space between these icons or they will overlap. Note if you want increase the WHOLE XMB you have to edit the page data values in the top_menu_plugin.rco and edit the stretch. This increases the size of the font as well, I believe.

[muny21]

thank you very much again. that was exactly what i was looking for. i hate to ask another question but i am a noob at this and i been searching for days and i just can not figure out how to remove the xmb wave from the background. i do not want to replace it and that is all the tuts i can find. sorry again for so much questions as your tuts are very thorough and i must have missed this info somewhere. thanks again for the help.