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These are some basic instructions for CustomizeMii.
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At the very beginning, let me say this again: Don't install any WADs without a proper brick protection!
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Ok, so you want to create your own custom channels?
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First it is important to understand how the creation of a custom channel with CustomizeMii works.
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Skip this if you already know.
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Basically, you can't create a channel from scratch. Well, you could, but not with this application.
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You need a base WAD which you can modify. You can either download one within this application or use
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any WAD (must be a channel of course) from anywhere.
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You can then edit the WAD file.
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The editing of animations is for advanced users, so if you're not familiar with brlyt's and brlan's
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(I guess you're not unless you created your own animations), get a static base WAD or one with the
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animation you want.
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So, let's start to create a channel. Download a base WAD through the application or load one from your HDD.
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You can preview the downloadable WADs through the preview button.
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All options below are optional!
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MIXING BANNER, ICON AND SOUND
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The options below the downloadable base WADs are the "replace" options.
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Let's say you have loaded WAD A as a base, but you want the icon of WAD B and you have a 00000000.app that
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contains a sound that you want to use.
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No problem! Just use the dropdownbox which yet says "Banner" and choose "Icon". Click on the browse button
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next to it and choose WAD B. The icon of WAD B will replace the icon of WAD A.
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After that, choose "Sound" from the dropdownbox and browse for the 00000000.app, the sound.bin will be
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extracted and used instead of the one within WAD A.
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Note: These features are non-destructive, i.e. you can always use the clear button to get back to the
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banner/icon/sound of WAD A!
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CHANNEL INFORMATION
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You may want to change the channel information, i.e. the title and ID.
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Let's change the channel title first. It's the text that will be displayed when you hold your cursor
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over the channel. Goto the "Title" tab and fill a title for all languages. If you want to change the
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title for a specific language, just use the language's textbox. If you want a different title for every
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language, you don't need to fill in a title for all languages.
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Now, the title ID. Open the "Options" tab and you'll see a textbox for the ID. The ID is 4 characters long
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and only contains letters and numerics. Lower case letters will automatically converted to upper case.
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Change it to a unique(!) ID, because channels will overwrite existing channles with the same ID!
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I recommend not to use any title ID beginning with the following characters, because official channels
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use these and thus your channel may overwrite them:
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C, E, F, H, J, L, M, N, P, Q, W
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INSERTING A NEW DOL
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Let's bring some life into the channel. In the "Options" tab, use the browse button for a new DOL.
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Either load a forwarder or the DOL of any application. Note that some channles require more than just a DOL
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and thus may not work in a channel (e.g. MPlayer CE).
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Choose a NAND loader or just stick with the one selected (both will do fine).
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You can also use the built-in forwarder creation by using the forwarder button right below the browse button
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for DOLs.
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You need the ForwardMii.dll in order to use the forwarder creation.
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INSERTING A NEW SOUND
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For the sound, you can either use a wave file or the sound replace function to use the sound of an
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existing sound.bin/00000000.app/WAD.
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If you want looped sound, open your wave file with wavosaur and add loop points before.
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EDITING THE BANNER/ICON (If you're an advanced user and want to edit the brlyt/brlan, do that first!)
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So, let's begin with the real customization. I will only talk about the banner here, the instructions
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are the same for the icon.
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Goto the "Banner" tab. You shouldn't touch the add and remove buttons, they're for advanced users that
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change the animation. (However, they can't really harm your channel, as CustomizeMii will check for missing
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and unneeded TPLs while creating a WAD).
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You will see a list with all TPLs inside the banner.bin. When you select a TPL,
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it's current format will be shown in the "Format" dropdownbox. Note that CustomizeMii can read 8 different
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TPL formats, but only write 3 (RGBA8, RGB565 and RGB5A3), that should be enough for your needs.
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You can use the preview button to preview a TPL (obvious, right?), but you get one more important info,
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the image size. It will be shown in the title of the preview window. If your images aren't the same size,
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they will be resized! So be sure to have at least the correct aspect ratio, so your images wont be
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squeezed or whatever.
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Before replacing the image, choose a format from the dropdownbox.
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(RGBA8 = High Quality, Big Size --- RGB565 = Moderate Quality, Small Size --- RGB5A3 = Bad Quality, Small Size)
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Now you can use the replace button to insert your image. Preview the TPL after replacing to check the
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image. Maybe you want to use another format though? No problem, just replace the TPL again.
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Note: You can use the "Make Transparent" checkbox to make a TPL transparent, e.g. if you don't like
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one piece of an animation (It's non-destructive, i.e. you can always uncheck the box).
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EDITING THE ANIMATION (Advanced users only!)
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Skip this part, if you don't really know what brlyt and brlan files are and how they're structured.
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Goto the "Layout" tab. You will see the banner.brlyt and icon.brlyt there.
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Above the buttons is a text that will indicate whether you're doing actions on the "Banner" or
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the "Icon" (When you select the banner.brlyt, you're editing the "Banner" and vice versa).
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Now, just replace the banner.brlyt and icon.brlyt files as you want. You can use the list TPLs button
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afterwards to see all TPLs that are required by the banner.brlyt/icon.brlyt (Don't worry, CustomizeMii
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won't let you create a WAD, if you forgot a required TPL).
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Now, goto the "Animation" tab. It's similar to the "Layout" tab. You shouldn't touch the add or delete button
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unless your base WAD only has a banner.brlan and you want to use a banner_Start.brlan and banner_Loop.brlan.
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In this case, first add the two files and then delete the old banner.brlan.
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Else just replace the files with yours. Be absolutely sure the your brlan files only refer to panes that are
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indicated in your brlyt files!
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That's it, here's nothing left to do.
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CREATING THE WAD
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Well, your channel should be ready to be created.
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Goto the "Options" tab and check the Lz77 checkbox, if you want to compress your channel to safe some Wii memory.
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If your channel doesn't work, first try it again without compression.
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Now just click on the create WAD button (The big one with the different text each startup).
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CustomizeMii will do some failure checks and if all went fine, a save dialog will pop up.
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If you get an error or warning, read the message carefully. It should give you enough information to fix
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the problem yourself.
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So, if you got down to here, you're done by now. Please, if you find any bugs or have suggestions, take some
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seconds to report them at the issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/customizemii/issues/list |