Have you ever wondered if it was possible to make a title logo with 256 colors?
Well I sure did, and here it is:


Title logo with 256 colors:

This is best used when the the titlescreen cutscene is disabled.
I could have changed the OAM properties of the other logo but it's much simpler that way.
As always this thread is really useful for those who can't get the ASM-Template working.


Normally I should have covered all the possible bugs, but in the event that a sneaky one managed to get under my radar, here is an alternate solution:
_IF the title screen appears scrambled, delete the 3rd function in the ASM patch (repl_020CDD88_ov_09: and below) and save again the .s file;
_Decompress overlay 9 if not already decompressed and at offset 0xF790 paste the following:
D02088C100010000
D020C8C120010000
D02008C040010000
D02048C060010000
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
B82071C100000000
B820B1C120000000
B820F1C140000000
B82031C060000000
F82071C180000000
F820B1C1A0000000
F820F1C1C0000000
F82031C0E0000000

The second solution is bug free, but I'll have it as the main - and only - solution only if the first one happens to be glitchy (which I hope not).





Images:
The new OAM properties make the code read the title logo picture as chunks of 64×64 pixels, and there are 16 of them.
This means that only pictures with 65536 pixels are allowed.
I could have used a 256×192 pixels large image but to stay on the safe side I wanted to use an image that would give a total area that can be written as a power of 2:
_which is the case of 65536 (2¹⁶)
_which is NOT the case of 49152 (or 256×192)

For example let's say you want to use the Beta title logo:



First delimit the 16 parts:

You won't need squares 13 to 16.
Open your image in Photoshop or GIMP.

If you want the logo to appear in the screen exactly as in the original image, follow this advice:
_no matter what the output image must be in a 64×1024 format (64 pixels long and 1024 pixels high).
_realistically only 64×768 will be needed since 64×768 is the same as 256×192, which is the number of pixels of a NDS screen.
This is where you would place each of the 16 parts in this new format:
    
Remember, each chunk is a 64×64 square.

Save the image and exit you Picture Editing software.

In NSMB Editor:
_go to ROM File Browser > FILESYSTEM > root > ARCHIVE > mg_entry.narc > FILESYSTEM > root > mg_entry and extract d_2d_mgvs_bg_title_ncg.bin.
_this image meets the 2 necessary requirements, it is a 8bpp image AND is 256×256 in size.
_then go to ROM File Browser > FILESYSTEM > root > ARCHIVE > menu_title.narc > FILESYSTEM > root > menu > title and extract UE_title_ncl.bin.
_now go to ROM File Browser > FILESYSTEM > root > uiStudio and import d_2d_mgvs_bg_title_ncg.bin into UI_O_menu_title_logo_o_u_ncg.bin and UE_title_ncl.bin into d_2d_UI_O_menu_title_logo_o_u_ncl.bin respectively.
Now you can open both d_2d_UI_O_menu_title_logo_o_u_ncl.bin and UI_O_menu_title_logo_o_u_ncg.bin located in the uiStudio folder.

Before importing your image in the new format, make sure View in 4bpp format is NOT ticked since you actually want to import the image in 8bpp.
Now change Tile Width from 32 to 8, and only then you can import by clicking Import all bitmaps with all palettes and finally Save all.






In-game:


The video comes from an older version of the mod.




Enjoy!

Wow very impressive

I guess the times where shit like this were considered as looking impressive are now over
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This is rather neat. Too bad it removes the copyright, though :l

The workaround would be adding the copyright text near the logo in the NCG file, before this gets solved.
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Code updated.
Now you have enough tiles to cover the whole screen!

Excellenté, excellánté

This is fantastic, this could make for some really dynamic title screens!
I'm going to try this out sometime.
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Weird.

Well the image is from UE_title.ncl, true, however the file used is still UI_O_menu_title_logo_o_u_ncg.bin.

What you can do is download the archive on this post:
https://nsmbhd.net/post/49237/

Then patch on a ROM than you can sacrifice(either patch will do), that way you can extract both d_2d_UI_O_menu_title_logo_o_u_ncl.bin and UI_O_menu_title_logo_o_u_ncg.bin and import them in Endless Earth to see if the problem persists.

I assume that you still have all your ASM hacks in the source folder right?

You can try this:
_copy the source folder elsewhere so as to keep all the files
_delete all the ASM Hacks but the title logo one
_Do a Run 'Make clean' and then a Run 'Make and insert'

_If this time it works, then I think the reason the Title logo wasn't functioning was because an ASM clash was happening between the Title logo hack and one of your other ASM hacks.

An ASM clash happens if somehow different codes were hooked at the same offset on the same overlay.
Sadly NSMBe doesn't detect this, all the codes that happen to be hooked at the same address will be successfully implemented, but only the last one will be taken into account.

I don't think any other hacks use any of those hooks. I hooked slide cutscene to 0200A4DC, which is close, but 'ts it. Unless one of yours does somewhere?

...And now I'm having the same problem. Very weird.


EDIT: There's something specific about the NCL you used that you can't reproduce in NSMBe. Which one did you use for your image?

This is the file I used to replace d_2d_UI_O_menu_title_logo_o_u_ncl.bin with:
FILESYSTEM > root > ARCHIVE > menu_title.narc > FILESYSTEM > root > menu > title > UE_title_ncl.bin

Also once you have imported the palette, LZ Compress it.

It sounded so obvious in my head yet I actually forgot that step in my opening post.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
Of course.

Okay, if there are no big glitches anymore, then I add it to my hack!
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Thank you
~Shavo