PART# 2:Coldboot Text
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Coldboot Text Method #1(Extremely NooB Friendly)
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This method is fairly easy and just requires Coldboot Text Replacer V2(Included of course)(
Location:Coldboot Tutorial\Tools\CTR_V2).Load up the application till you see the menu with the following screens:
Screen 1:You will either load up an RCO you wish to change or select one of the firmware options(Firmware 5.00 or Firmware 4.01 or older).
Screen 2:In this tab you will pick color,text,size and font that you wish to use...once it looks the way you want it too..select save and place the resulting RCO in F0/vsh/resource...simple huh.
Screen 3:If you want to have a full screen coldboot..you go here...This turns an image into your coldboot..like so:
NOTE: Make sure to load RCO on screen 1 first)
Then select the image you would like to use(480x272 .BMP works great) and then save..and voila..your done and have a full screen coldboot.
Screen 4:Gameboot Delay which I think is pretty self explanatory..if not what it does is change how long a gameboot.pmf can be..so instead of the original 2.5 seconds you can make it..idk...8 seconds long.
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Coldboot Text Method #2(Slightly Harder) (More Text flexibility then method 1)
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Ok so first off open up GIMP(or a similar photo editing software) and start by going to File>New to create a new image for us to work with.You can leave the Width and the Height the sizes that they are(Will crop the image to the correct size later).The click on the Advanced Options drop menu and make sure that
Fill With: is set to
Transparency.Should look like this:
Then hit Ok and you will see a new work area pop up with a checkerboard like pattern on it.
Now the fun part.Find the text tool(Big Bold Letter A or press t).Select the font,color,and size that you wish to use.(I will be using
Dark Crystal Font size 50 Black & White)
Then write what you want your coldboot to say(Mine will say my username DarkFoxSniper)
Now when you are satisfied with the look of it right click and select Image>Autocrop Image.You will notice that your image's resolution has changed and become smaller then before...don't worry that's what we want to happen.
Next a little warning...keep in mind that the PSP's screen has the dimensions
480x272...so if you end up with a cropped image bigger then that size or close to it..most likely it will now work if you use RCO editor to insert it..but you could always use CTR_V2(
From Method 1) to do a full size coldboot with it...
All that's left to do is save it as a
PNG(Uncheck all boxes when asked to save)
Inserting Text Into Opening_plugin.RCO(RCO Editor Tut)
So now that we have or text saved and ready to use we must insert it into the RCO using RCO Editor..so go to the RCO Editor folder(
Coldboot Tutorial\Tools\RCO Editor)And click on
RCOEdit.exe and you will see the program pop up with this screen:
Select the Open RCO...and load the RCO for your firmware and you will see this screen:
The
[GIM] tex_logo is the coldboot text (
[GIM] tex_psp_logo is the gameboot logo for those that want to know to remover replace it with
[GIM] tex_psp_logo.png) so click replace,locate the PNG of your text and press Enter and you will see it show up where the Sony Computer Entertainment Logo was.
All that you have to do now is copy it to F0/vsh/resource and see if it shows up correctly.Here's what the finished product looks like:
(The above is of a better quality..stupid screenshot plugin making it look all shitty..)
Now if it does not show up right(I.E. you see a white box) it means that the color depth of the PNG was too much for the RCO to handle..but we have something that can fix this.Look for the
PNGforPTF folder in the RCO Editor Folder.Now this program converts 24-bit PNGs into 256 color 8-bit PNGs...which RCO Editor can handle...you may notice a slight loss in resolution but nothing that will be too big.
All you do is load the app and find your PNG then hit convert.Then load it into the RCO and test it out.Now remember an RCO does have it's limitations and will not handle everything that you throw into them.
See not too hard to do the text..now unfortunately we move on to the hardest part...the sound.
I say hardest because if a new version of BSR(
BootSoundReplacer) is not released yet when a new CFW arrives...you will have to HEX the sound in..