Universal Theme Flasher

April 13th, 2008, 22:22 Posted By: wraggster

News/release from Super Sheep:

This is my first program I have released on PSP.

This program as its name suggests attempts to be a Universal Theme Flasher. My aim is to make switching between themes as easy as possible.

I noticed many people have trouble installing flash0 themes and are not sure what to do. Most of my friends also screwed up their firmware when installing themes aswell so I wrote this flasher for this reason (and to refresh my memory :P)

The supported firmwares are 3.90, 3.80, 3.71 and 3.52. I didn't do the earlier firmware as I dont believe many people use at all.

Ok so onto the main deal.

The flasher uses configuration files to flash themes and give details about the theme (name, author, firmware etc)

Combine this with security checks and a hardcoded list of all the files then you have some pretty good security. Themes should be in a zip archive with a configuration file named "theme.conf".

Themes should be put into a folder called THEMES in directory with the Eboot.pbp. (such as PSP/GAME/UTF/THEMES)

When you first boot you will get a menu screen like this:



Here you choose the theme you are going to flash. In my case I shall choose ClearXMB Black.

Press X.
It will say something about extracting a configuration file. It will be quick then you will get another menu looking a little like this:



I recommend you backup your current theme first so you can have something to revert to.
If you have or just dont want to then click Install theme.

It will do the rest for you.

Here are screens:



I've also include a sample theme.conf so thememakers can easily make their themes usable by UTF.
Like always read the readme.

I know flashers are outdated now and flash0 usb > UTF but i'm sure someone will benefit from this.

Credits to
Davee - Programmer of UTF
Anonymous Tipster - I modified his zip extraction code
A_n00b - I modified his confParser
Jono - For the basic fundementals of a file browser

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