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How to change the R4DS theme.ini

Posted in Gaming, Internet, Nintendo DS, R4DS by aceman on May 30, 2007

Putting a skin on the R4DS is easy, it’s just the matter of making 4 8bit or 24bit bitmap (.bmp) images, naming them correctlyThe theme.ini and transferring them onto the R4 (well, Micro SD card).

Making the skin ‘work’ better is how the text looks and that’s where the theme.ini file comes in. In that file are the ‘color’ commands to tell the R4 what colour text and stuff should be and this post is to show you which ‘color’ is for what. You can download a basic ini file from here which has the info in the pic on the right there (click for bigger pic) –>

There isn’t a specific way to ‘tell’ you how to change the theme.ini, it’s just a case of opening it up in notepad and changing the values of each hex number, there’s a chart below which has all the basic colours, but if you’re after a more obscure colour, using a paint/photo imaging program would be more useful.

Due to some big images, the post will continue after the jump…

The colours of the rainbow and more

There is the chart of all the standard colours which should get you started on making that skin a bit more unique, the next 2 images show the colour numbers and their theme.ini names.

Colour numbers and their theme.ini names

Colour numbers and their theme.ini names

I hope that’s given you the info needed to tweak your theme.ini to however you want it to make the colours in your skin appear, just remember to put it in the same folder as your skin for it to take effect. By the way, if anyone would like the Spongebob skin as used in the images, it’s available on the Spongebob skins page.

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  1. Scott said, on June 25, 2007 at 0:55

    cheers!

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  2. jef said, on July 15, 2007 at 23:54

    Thanks. It is helpful having english in the comments of the theme. You rock!

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  3. Drew said, on July 18, 2007 at 9:04

    Excellent tutorial. Thanks! :)

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  4. Azkridth said, on July 22, 2007 at 6:22

    Hey thanks! Really needed this. Well done AceMan!

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  5. jeff said, on July 28, 2007 at 12:27

    very helpful. now if only i can change the images. i drop in properly-renamed bmp images but they don’t show. help?

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  6. aceman said, on July 28, 2007 at 13:05

    They have to be EXACTLY 256*192 pixels or they won’t show, double-check the size of the image before putting it onto the R4. I made that mistake a few times when I first started making them. :(

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  8. Litium said, on February 28, 2008 at 22:58

    That was pretty useful!

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  9. KinaestiK said, on March 7, 2008 at 21:05

    pretty nice man!!!!!

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  10. Ian said, on April 29, 2008 at 19:14

    What a star – my boy wanted his R4 skinned with a Portsmouth FC theme (argh?) so after some amateur graphical work and this theme information he is very happy. Thankyou

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  11. Adrian said, on July 29, 2008 at 15:09

    Thanks for the AWsome Work

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  12. o-o said, on September 5, 2008 at 23:27

    i dont get it

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  13. Stu13 said, on September 11, 2008 at 13:05

    Very useful, especially the screen prints showing where each of the colours is displayed on the top & bottom DS screens.

    Thanks again

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  14. GFK said, on October 4, 2008 at 9:52

    I love you.

    <3 <3 <3

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  15. luke said, on October 12, 2008 at 19:05

    I tried making my own. Somehow the colours changed but the background stayed the same. Whats wrong with it?

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  16. Matie said, on January 28, 2009 at 19:50

    man I like you, You helped me a lot!!!

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  17. MMK said, on March 9, 2009 at 13:38

    Great pictures. Simple and easy to understand.

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  18. Noyzi said, on June 11, 2009 at 15:11

    hehe, really helpful tutorial. thanks n good work, been getting confused with the colour’s part

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  19. dfh said, on July 12, 2009 at 8:09

    why doesn’t it work, the background colors are retarded

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  20. Sylvia said, on July 23, 2009 at 7:15

    haha. nice. thankssss a million

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  21. klotedrolfuck said, on July 30, 2009 at 10:20

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  22. Radien said, on November 22, 2009 at 11:29

    A picture’s worth a thousand words. That was very useful, thanks! (The DS photo, specifically; I already know hexadecimal color codes)

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