How to Create Your Own XMB

[nephron]

The following guid will show you step by step on creating your own XMB for the PSP! This took me a long time and I hope it will help you guys out!

The things you will need are:

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[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
Photoshop (I prefer CS2)
Fat PSP
USB


Index:

I. Icons
1. Insert the Icons to a topmenu_plugin.rco
2. Installing the icons

II. Waves
1. Creating the wave
2. Insert the wave to a system_plugin_bg.rco

III. Volume Icon
1. Creating a Volume Icon

Accessing the Recovery Menu

1. Turn on your PSP
2. When its turned on, Hold the power button off untill your PSP completely shuts down
3. Turn your PSP on but hold the R-Trigger Button to access the Recovery Menu
4. Welcome to the Recovery Menu

Accessing Flash0:

1. Now, scroll down to Advanced and make sure you have a usb connected from your PSP to your PC
2. Click on Toggle USB (Flash0)
3. A window on your computer will pop up
4. Welcome to Flash0 (Please do not delete/add anything unless you know what you are doing)

Making a Backup: *MANDATORY*

1. Create a folder called Original Flash0 on your desktop
2. Access Flash0
3. Select all the folders
4. Right Click and click on Copy
5. Open the folder you made on your desktop
6. Click on Paste
7. Now you have a backup, so if anything goes wrong you will be able to fix it.

Make more space in Flash0 for customizations:

Download this: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

1. Extract the FLASH_AGENT folder from the .rar file
2. Put the folder in the PSP/GAME150 folder
3. Launch it
4. Scroll down to Recovery on the main menu
5. Find Remove fonts (Free 2.5mb of Flash0) something like that. It is the last on in there.
6. Press O to go back
7. n the main menu, press on Recheck free flash space
8. It should be around 2500, the more the better
9. When its done, Press Home and then Press yes to exit.
10. You should now have 2.5mb free for flash!

I. Icons

1. I will not be teaching you on how to make icons since it is a difficult task and takes some skill using Photoshop. So for that, search it on google or just download a set that you want.

2. If you want to make an icon, the size should be 64x64. If you have seperate pictures that you would like to use as icons that you have downloaded, follow this:

Open RCOEdit and drag and drop your topmenu_plugin.rco (found in flash0:/vsh/resource) to the blank white screen. Also make sure you are on the General Resour. Tab. It should look something like this:

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Now, on the left side, click on the icon you want to replace and then on the right side press the "Replace..." button:

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Now, choose the 64x64 icon you have, by the way, the icons have to be in bmp form.

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Ok. Now you have your icons!

To rename your icons, Use [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

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To use:

1.Put your topmenu_plugin.rco in RCO Swapper folder

2.From the scroll down menus, choose the icon's name you want to change.

3.Right below the icon's name, there is a place to type the new name you want the icon to be.

4. Press Temp Save after changing the name of the icon, and move on to the next one. *After every icon name change press the "Temp Save" button*

5. After you finish changing the name, press the ! Swap It! button and wait untill it is complete.

Ok! You are done. Now just overide the topmenu_plugin.rco you edited with your old one in the flash0 folder.


II. Waves

Welcome to the Ultimate Wave Creating Guide!

This will guide teach you:

1. Flashing
2. Creating Name Waves
3. Creating Tunnel Waves

The Tools that will be needed are:

1. A PSP with an OE firmware
   
2. A USB Cable
3. A Hex editor (included in the Name Wave pack)
4. An image editing program, perferably Photoshop

Ultimate Flashing Guide

The first thing you will need is to know how to access Recovery

1. Fully shutdown your PSP by holding the power button up untill the PSP as been shut down.
2. Turn on your PSP, Hold the R-Trigger button while turning it on
3. Welcome to the Recovery menu

The 2nd thing you need to know is how to access your flash0

• Flash0 is were all the files are located that run your PSP. An example is the button icons, waves, button functions, sounds, web browser, etc.
  

1. While in recovery, enter the Advanced section of the main menu
2. Connect a usb to your PSP and your computer
3. In the advanced menu, select Access Flash0
4. Welcom to flash0, please do nut delete anything in there unless you know what your a doing.

Ultimate Name Wave Guide

• !Before you do anything, make a backup of your flash0. If anything happends, you will always have your backup!

Download: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

Layer Introduction:


Layer 1: The Text (It is flipped, leave it like that becuase the PSP reads it normally)

To Change the Text:

1. Double click on the Boxed "T" Image and type in the text
2. Click the "T" again to set the text

Layer 2: The Hue (The color of the wave)

To Change the color:

1. Double click on the circle image that is half black and half white
2. This will open a window. On the bottom right of the image you have to Check box options; Colorize and Preview. Check both of them
3. The normal, best looking wave is using these settings for the Hue:

• Hue: Mess with it to get the color you want
• Saturation: 100
• Lightness: 0

Layer 3: The wave pattern.
Don't touch. No need to

Layer 4: The background
Don't touch. Will just mess up your wave

Creating the Wave after setting all your options

• !Before you do anything, make a backup of your flash0. If anything happends, you will always have your backup!

1. Make sure you like what your wrote, and the color you want
2. Index the picture:
   
3. 
4. It will ask you to flatten the layers, press OK
5. It will bring up a window. Copy the following options
   
6. 
7. Go to File -> Save As...
8. Save it as a .tga (no spaces)
   
9. 
10. The file should be 17,196 bytes
    
11. No, go to the Hex editor, and open XVI32.exe
12. It will open up. Open your tga file
13. Scroll down near the end. You will see tons of FF in boxes
    
14. 
15. Delete 24 of those FF boxes. Delete by pressing the "Delete" button on 24 Diffrent boxes.
16. Save it. The file should now be 17,172 bytes
17. Now take your wave.tga and put it in the TGA folder included in the Name Wave Maker
    
18. Now press and open Start
    
19. It should open up a message
    
20. 
    
21. Press OK
22. Another message should open up
    
23. 
24. Press Cancel
25. Another message should open up
    
26. 
27. type in the name of your wave (ex. namewave.tga). Make sure you put in the .tga and that ur file name has no spaces.
28. You should get 1 more message that says "Process completed, open output folder for "opening_plugin.rco" and "system_plugin_bg.rco""
29. Go to the output folder and delete the opening_plugin.rco.
30. Flash the system_plugin_gb.rcon to flash0:\VSH\Resource
31. Enjoy your Name Waves!
32. To create more, just follow the steps again, and make sure to delete the stuff in the output folder.

Name Wave Example:


Creating Tunnel Wave Guide

• !Before you do anything, make a backup of your flash0. If anything happends, you will always have your backup!

Download: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

1. Get a picture from google
   
2. [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
3. Link to the above image
4. Save the picture to your desktop and open it up in your image editor
5. Change the image size
   
6. 
7. A box will open. Enter the following options
   
8. 
9. Index the picture
   
10. 
11. A window will open. Enter the following options
    
12. 
13. Save it as a .tga to your desktop (no spaces in the name)
    
14. 
15. Put your wave.tga in the tga folder in the Tunnel Wave Maker
16. Click and open Start
17. It should open up a message
18. 
    
19. Press OK
20. Another message should open up
    
21. 
    
22. Press Cancel
23. Another message should open up
    
24. 
25. type in the name of your wave (ex. tunnelwave.tga). Make sure you put in the .tga and that ur file name has no spaces.
26. You should get 1 more message that says "Process completed, open output folder for "opening_plugin.rco" and "system_plugin_bg.rco""
27. Go to the output folder and delete the opening_plugin.rco.
28. Flash the system_plugin_gb.rcon to flash0:\VSH\Resource
29. Enjoy your Tunnel Waves!
30. To create more, just follow the steps again, and make sure to delete the stuff in the output folder.

Tunnel Wave Example:

I cant get into my XMB! How can i fix this????

Downgrade back to 1.5!

1. Download the Recovery Folder
   
2. Go into recovery or XMB and access your usb
3. Put the RECOVERY folder in the PSP/GAME folder which should include the UPDATE.PBP which is the 1.50 update eboot
4. Close ur USB and access your Recovery menu
5. Make sure you have 75% battery left becuase this will flash your psp and format ur flash0
6. Click on Run program at /PSP/GAME/RECOVERY/EBOOT.PBP
7. Do not turn off your psp. Let it go untill it asks for you to restart manually.
8. Check your PSP Settings and you should be back at 1.5
9. Now you have a choice of staying at 1.5 or going back up again to 3.40 OE-A.

OR

1. Get your flash0 backup
2. Take the system_plugin_bg.rco from your back up
3. Go to recovery and open up your flash0
4. Go to flash0:\VSH\Resource
5. Replace the system_plugin_bg.rco with your backup
   

III. The Volume Bar

1. First Open your flash0:/vsh/resource folder and find impose_plugin.rco and drag and drop it into our RCOEdit
   
   
2. Now, create a new folder on your desktop, I made mine "My Volume Icons"
3. Now that you got that done, go back to RCOEdit and press the "Extract all..." button
   
   
4. It should open a window, so point to the new folder you made and press OK
   
   
5. Ok, now open the "My Volume Icons" folder that you made and scroll all the way down. You will find tex_volume_bar.8bit.bmp, tex_volume_bar.32bit.bmp, tex_volume_dot.8bit.bmp, and tex_volume_dot.32bit.bmp.
   
   
6. Now, go to Photoshop and open the files tex_volume_dot.32bit.bmp and tex_volume_bar.32bit.bmp
   
   
7. I will not show you how to change the Icons, since each person likes something different, so just temper around with the shapes and colors of the dot and bar.
   
   
8. Once you are done, we will save it as a 32 bit bmp file and an 8bit bmp file. So lets do File --> Save as...
   
   
   
   Name it whatever you want, as long as the Format is under BMP
9. Press the save button and you should get the following window:
   
   
10. Dont change anything, Press OK. This will be our 32 bit image.
11. Now we will make the same image as an 8 bit image. Go to Mode --> Indexed Color...
    
    
12. Follow these options and press OK
    
    
13. Now again, go to File --> Save as...
    
    
14. Press Save and another windows should popup
    
    
    
    Make sure it is on 8bit, and press OK
15. Ok, we are almost done. Make a new folder called "Renamed Icons" and place your new made volume icons in the folder.
16. Now, rename the files to what they used to be
    
    
17. Ok, now go back to your RCOEdit and press the "Replace Multiple..." Button.
    
    
18. A windows should popup, so now select your "Renamed Icons" folder and press OK
    
    
19. Do the same thing for the Volume Bar icon, since it is the same process.
20. There you go, now you have a new Volume Bar!

IV. Battery

V. Paf.prx and VSH.prx

[mizou_sentissi]

WOW it's just amazing ^^ thanks ! I think I gonna make my own theme

[Bonez]

Thankx for teaching us how to make our own XMB but what if they wanted to make it a ptf then how would i do that

[nephron]

i will add that as soon as a i can. I am still working on it.

[armando211]

WOW! This is f-en crazy. Did you learn all that. I will try on my spare time.

[nephron]

ya i learned all that, i tought myself most of this, but i still need to add the battery PTF creation and editing the paf.prx and vsh.prx. Give me a day or 2 to finish it up

[yanko693]

just another perfect nephron guide nothing to see here. lol

[nephron]

not perfect yet. Im sorry i cant finish it this week since im doing comunity service stuff all this week and will be back this weekend to completly finish up this guid.

[C-Gamer]

Wow amazing tutorial.

[nephron]

thanks still need to find time to finish it. I will soon, just having some busy times at school...