Tools required#

• Nitro Paint
• Image editor of your choice. paint.net will be used for this tutorial.

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Top screen#

Making a basic title screen replacement#

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Preparing your image#

First off, we need to make sure our image has a size of 256x192. To do so, I'm going to resize this image using paint.net After our image has the correct resolution, we are going to expand the canvas downwards in such a way that the image is now 256x256. There should be a transparent 256 x 64 rectangle below our image, the purpose of this gap will be explained better Once this is done, our image is now ready to be saved as png and get converted to the format used by the game

Converting your image#

Drag and drop your image into NitroPaint and select the create BG option The default import settings are fine, only make sure that the char compression setting is off. Click on Generate to convert your image. You will notice that 3 new windows appeared. These windows represent your image's palette data, character data (think of it as if your image was split into multiple 8x8 tiles), and screen data (think of it as a tile map that tells the console where to draw each tile). Go into File->Save All or press Ctrl+Shift+S to save the generated files. After that, refer to the following table to know what file you should replace

Save/Rebuild your ROM and you should be ready to go!

Restoring the logo fade in effect#

Extended palettes#

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Bottom screen#

Replacing the bottom screen#

Editing the buttons#

Moving the buttons#