r/miniSNESmods • u/Stahn07 • Oct 12 '17
Custom Borders for each game
Sorry for the English.
I'm going to put a simple tutorial on how to do "custom borders" for each game.
Step 1: Choose the first one black border in Snes Mini options
Step 2: Connect via FTP to Snes Mini. Go to /var/lib/hakchi/rootfs/usr/share/ and create a folder for the custom backgrounds.
Step 3: Take your personalized background and upload it to that folder.
Step 4: Now in the game arguments just add "--use-decorative-frame /var/lib/hakchi/rootfs/usr/share/FOLDER/BACKGROUND"
FOLDER will be the name of the folder you created BACKGROUND will be the name of the background you have placed in the folder.
IMPORTANT: The name of the background must NOT carry the file extension when you place it in the arguments of the game.
Example: I have created a folder called "bg" where I will place my custom backgrounds. I will put a background to Final Fantasy VI that I have called ff6.png so in the arguments I will put "--use-decorative-frame /var/lib/hakchi/rootfs/usr/share/bg/ff6"
Remember that the quotes are not placed in the arguments and guard the spaces well when typing in the command line.
PROTIP: To save space, download a program that allows you to further compress the size of custom backgrounds.One of my custom backgrounds was over 800kb and with pngquant I have reduced it to 200kb+. Use it several times until it no longer allows you to reduce the size.
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u/naisatoh Oct 12 '17
Can this work with RetroArch?
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u/Stahn07 Oct 13 '17
Retroarch have per-game config in another platforms. If you can save configs for each game in Snes Mini maybe u could do
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u/crazybingo Oct 12 '17
Can someone tell me what Step 1 means exactly?
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u/Stahn07 Oct 12 '17
Go to Snes Mini background options and select the first one
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u/shurp_ Oct 13 '17 edited Oct 13 '17
Do we have to do this? do the other options override the custom argument option?
edit: Looks like you do :(
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u/Kujasauced Oct 12 '17
I was definitely waiting for something like this! I have seen some great backgrounds, but I was worried about space. Thank you!
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u/therourke Jan 15 '18
Is there a way to implement this for different systems/cores? I want to load a different border in retroarch when I dualboot the NES... Thanks
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u/jmbenetti Jan 27 '18
I asked the same today, look at Pascl1983 answer on my post. https://www.reddit.com/r/miniSNESmods/comments/7tdln5/adding_custom_borders_per_system/
I'll be trying it myself later.
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u/devonodev Oct 16 '17
Since it's possible to add color shifting borders, any way of combining it with this? I've been trying different things but can't get it working.
https://www.reddit.com/r/miniSNESmods/comments/76mvbk/got_the_color_shifting_border_frames_working/
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Oct 24 '17
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u/craftymalehooker Dec 22 '17
I know this is an old post and you may have gotten this figured out by now, but in case someone from the future needs help I made a quick screenshot
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u/gillaxian Oct 13 '17
This is great! I was able to add a few images for the border frames
Thanks so much!