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[Ghoti]

Hi folks,

I make my psp appz with Visual C++ and the PSP app builder. With it you can specify the icons and music etc. that you see in the psp menu when you can start the game. But how can you change this after you made the game?
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My PSP games:

Boxy II: http://www.ghoti.nl/boxyii.php
Elementals: http://www.ghoti.nl/Elementals.php

[nullp01nter]

You can try PBP Unpacker: http://www.pdc.me.uk/pbp/

Thoralt

[Ghoti]

That's not what i meant sorry, i have programmed the game in Visual C++ then right before i want to compile it i want to alter the images and stuff how is this possible?
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My PSP games:

Boxy II: http://www.ghoti.nl/boxyii.php
Elementals: http://www.ghoti.nl/Elementals.php

[LaMa]

Ehm.. I could be very wrong, but I think nullp01nter is in fact right.

Ghoti, the changing of the icons, background, music (all the stuff you see when you highlight an application on the memory stick) is all done after you compiled your program with MSVC.
It can be done with the tool nullp01nter linked to, but I peronally recommend a different tool called PSP Brew.
You can download it directly, from here.

I could be wrong but I think this is what you do mean.
If not, please excuse my ignorance. (I'm not a programmer)

-LaMa

[nullp01nter]

@Ghoti: With PBP Unpacker (and most likely with PSP Brew too - I didn't check that) you indeed can extract icons etc. from PBPs and you also can exchange things and make a new PBP out of that.

I agree there are better tools to hack around with PBPs, especially when compiling. Then you should have something you can operate from command line to automate the process. In the psptoolchain this is the tool "pack-pbp" which is automatically called in your makefile. You have to define the variables for icon and background gfx to get it packed automatically:

[Ghoti]

Ah yes this is what i wanted to know :) there is only one problem the way you describe (nullpo1nter) with the makefile doesn't work. I tried the things you said but the app stayed with icon PSPdev and the name also didn't change.( i have even tried only the title change but nothings changes.)

Since the normal way doesn't work i'll try doing it with psp brew( because that is already installed on my computer.) and if that doesn't work i'll try the piece of software you gave me.[/code]
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My PSP games:

Boxy II: http://www.ghoti.nl/boxyii.php
Elementals: http://www.ghoti.nl/Elementals.php

[Dr. Vegetable]

Remember that the make utility doesn't recognize when you have edited a makefile to determine that it should do a complete rebuild. So if you start with a fully rebuilt project, edit your makefile, and run make again, you will get a message that says "make: nothing to be done for 'all'."

Whenever you edit your makefile, you should always do a make clean operation to delete all output files, which will force make to do a complete rebuild of your project the next time you build it. I suspect this is why your rebuilt project doesn't use the new icons.

[Ghoti]

hmmm i tried doing that but then the following happened:

[Dr. Vegetable]

It looks like you might have broken your makefile. The compiler seems to be ignoring your .c program file, which is why it says that you haven't defined _main.

If you post a copy of your makefile then maybe someone can help you figure out what is wrong with it. Or else go back to a recent backup copy of your makefile and try making the changes again.

[Ghoti]

Yes you are right, i have just used a backup and it was solved copied the whole code into the old one and it worked like a charm :) i have also got the backgrounds and picto's working now. Thank you all for relplying it as a great help!
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My PSP games:

Boxy II: http://www.ghoti.nl/boxyii.php
Elementals: http://www.ghoti.nl/Elementals.php