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What I am going to show here is how to add a theme switcher to a "SECRAT MENU" accessed by code on the title screen.
First, you will need some themes. Use this tutorial.
On all of my themes, I have a 'mods' (or mods-green for j444mes, or mods-eternity for ITG eternity, etc) folder that contains a metrics.ini with this:
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[Global]
FallbackTheme=[arcade-green/arcade/arcade-eternity/etc]
[ScreenTitleJoin]
CodeNames=Secrat
CodeSecrat=Up,Down,Left,Right,Up,Down,Left,Right
CodeSecratAction=screen,ScreenSecratOptions
[ScreenSecratOptions]
Fallback=ScreenArcadeOptions
NextScreen=@ScreenTitleBranch()
LineNames=1
Line1=conf,Theme |
In this, the code is Up, Down, Left, Right, Up, Down, Left, Right on the pad and it accesses "ScreenSecratOptions", which falls back on the game options menu from the operator's menu (don't worry, there's no way in-game to screw with those settings). You can change the code to whatever you want.
Here is a key of what you can use on ITG2 in codes:
Left - Left on the pad
Right - Right on the pad
Up - Up on the pad
Down - Down on the pad
MenuLeft - Left blue button (yellow if you have an upgrade)
MenuRight - Right blue button (yellow if you have an upgrade)
Start - Green button
Select - Red button (dedicated cabinet ONLY)
To access the menu, enter your code on the title screen after you put a credit in (don't worry, you won't lose your credit).
Now, remember how that tutorial up there had a Static.ini? Well, what that does here is makes it boot up onto the original theme every time it reboots. In theory, you could delete the line from the Static.ini and it would boot to whatever theme it was set on last, but I've never tried it.
Remember that YOU CAN ONLY CHOOSE THEMES THAT ALSO HAVE [SCREENSECRATMENU] IN THEM OR YOU'LL HAVE TO REBOOT!
Also, this tutorial does not have to be followed exactly. For example, the /mods themes are not really needed (I actually only have them to make it easy to add more themes and I don't like modifying the originals). However, you do need to use your head when changing anything. |
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