So to start off things, yes, marijuana is tryna get its revenge on me. These days, I've been almost craving for weed. I know I quit a while ago, but man, for whatever reasons, I want to smoke soooooo f*cking bad lately. Guess I miss the old days when I'd smoke 24/7 and it gave me a very good feeling. Ah well, I am still fighting, Mari-Jane!
Now, I've got a new hobbie for now: PSP Custom Themes. As some of you who own PSP's, you probably know of the last update featuring and all new custom theme option. They have released very few official themes to download such as Cookies, Lemmings, Wipeout, etc. Today I found something else though.. I found out that Playstation of Japan released a Custom Theme Maker on their website. I jumped on it right away. Unfortunately, I'd have a hard time figuring it out first since the PDF guide is in japanese. But in the end, it turned out pretty simple, xept for figuring out how to work Photoshop to have my icons to work, although they were the perfect size, format and everything. It was all about figuring out Photoshop. Eh, I'm no expert at this stuff! Anyway, I've been working on an Insane Clown Posse theme which is taking me a while. See, you have the category icons (6 of em for the old PSP's, 7 for the PSP Slim) which are the main icons on the XMB. Then you got the first level icons, which consist of the first level after the main category icons (22 for the old PSP and 23 for the PSP Slim, somehow they forgot the "location free player" icon) which is the longest to do and hardest since I'm running out of ideas. The first level icons includes the memory stick, umd, etc. Settings such as power save, usb connection, basicaly all of these. hen you got the 2nd level icons which are the settings found after the first level.. Example: You go to change your video options in the Settings category, all the icons found INSIDE the video options are changeable as well, but consist of only one icon. The same icon for all the second level. Thing is..for the 1st and 2nd level, you can notice how the icon "glows" on your PSP, which only means each icons are in fact two icons flashing one after the other, making twice the number of icons to change. You can also change the wallpaper and also you gotta make a preview icon and image cause when you go to Theme Settings - Custom Themes, your theme will be represented by a preview icon and on the left side there'll be a preview of the theme, which is the preview image.
Sure can take a while to make a custom theme but I really like it. After my Insane Clown Posse theme, I'll make a Kottonmouth Kings theme and a Megaman theme for sure. All hail custom themes!
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