Creating your own PS3 themes
- Posted November 8th, 2007 at 06:01 EDT by Mike Harradence
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Step 1: You will need to download the official PS3 Theme Tool by visiting Sony’s Japanese website, then clicking on the button in the bottom right.
Step 2: Extract the file to a folder on your computer
Step 3: Open command prompt and navigate to the folder.
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Step 4: The folder should contain a sample folder, a GrimConv folder, a p3tcompiler.exe and other assorted files. To create your theme you will need to run the p3tcompiler.exe passing in the sample.xml.
Example: If you are in the p3tcompiler_v101 folder, you run: p3tcompiler .sample�1sample.xml
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Step 5: This creates a number of .gim files and a sample.p3t files in the sample /01/ directory. Take the sample.p3t file and transfer it to a memory stick in the following location: PS3->THEME
Step 6: Plug the memory stick into your PS3 and select the theme setting, where you will be given an option to install; do so, and you will have your sample theme.
Step 7: To construct your own custom theme, it’s a case of editing all of the .png files in the sample directory, and re-run all of the above.
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Source: Gunlager blog
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SecretSquirrel |
SeventhAxes- 6:20am GMT - November 8th, 2007
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Alright people get busy now, I need some cool themes!
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HalfOfZero |
HalfOfZero- 6:41am GMT - November 8th, 2007
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Will have to give this a go later on! So it's not in Japanese, it's just from the Jap server?
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DantheMan_69
- 8:43am GMT - November 8th, 2007
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This is a kool download but when i go to run p3tcompiler.exe it comes up for 1 sec then goes can anyone tell me whats going on lol
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Jax Twinblade |
Jax-Twinblade- 8:47am GMT - November 8th, 2007
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and when are they gonna post a proper PSP theme tutorial...
I have Photoshop n all, but I can't figure it out!!!
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Dave-The-Rave |
Dave-The-Rave- 10:21am GMT - November 8th, 2007
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to get it to work go into the p3tcompiler/sample/01/sample.xml (right click it go to open with and select p3tcompiler.exe) then copy the .p3t file onto amemory stick...
The sample theme is awesome !! way better than the one that came with the firmware !!
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PS3-The Ultimate Machine
- 2:00pm GMT - November 8th, 2007
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That looks AWESOME!!!And just like ScretSquirrel said,get busy and create something cool.
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JMelillo57 |
jmelillo57- 4:42pm GMT - November 8th, 2007
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Nice I can't wait to get home from work tonight and download everything.
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TheRizeofWar
- 11:31am GMT - November 9th, 2007
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This is how to do it for people that are having trouble. I tried to just right click the sample and open with the p3tcompiler.exe but there was no "open with" command. So this is how i did it. Save the p3tcompiler_v101 file right in the main C: drive where you will find your windows file and programs file. It just makes it easier and less typing. Go "run" and type this but use the back slash instead of writing "backslash" C:"backslash"p3tcompiler_v101"backslash"p3tcompiler.exe"space"sample"backslash"01"backslash"sample.xml you should see the command prompt screen pop up and then just save it to your memory stick and pop it in the ps3 and there ya go. Have any problems just repost and ill try to help. I know it looks confusing, we just cant use backslashes while posting for some reason. PSN name jratdn2
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soopergooman
- 12:04pm GMT - November 9th, 2007
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goto this link http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3media&message.id=72115to get themes. Check out my warhawk theme, i'm SOOPERGOOMAN187 on there. WARHAWK THEME
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TheRizeofWar
- 12:34pm GMT - November 9th, 2007
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hey soopergooman i tried the link and it said it was deleted?
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prosecondbase7 |
prosecondbase7- 4:50am GMT - December 7th, 2007
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this bull don't work It keeps insta closing and when I drag it to run It fails. I don't know what to do. Im not a computer wiz but I can follow these crappy instructions and they don't work
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LucasCain
- 11:01am GMT - December 17th, 2007
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Dear dear. You needn’t be a computer whiz to run this program. OK, here are the simple steps to create your own themes.
1. p3tcompiler_v101--sample--01--sample.xml
Find this .xml file. As above, it is in p3tcompiler_v101 folder. Then open sample folder, then 01 folder, then find the file which is named sample. This should be an .xml file. It should be easy enough to spot but if you’re not sure check on the properties of the file to find the file type.
2. Once you have found this file, right click it. Chose Open with. Browse through the programs on your hard drive until you find the pstcompiler.exe program. Open the sample.xml file using p3tcompiler and it will run through a set of commands. This usually takes a few seconds and then disappears. Viola. Inside the sample folder (where you found the sample.xml file) you will find another file named sample. This time it will have an extension of .p3t. This is the file you need to install on your ps3 (in other words your ‘theme’).
Anybody who has any further problems you can e-mail me and I’ll gladly try and help. lukejennings85@yahoo.co.uk -
Centurion-Legion777 |
Centurion-Legion- 9:30pm BST - April 15th, 2009
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to me it just opens for a sec then closes just like #3 and #8 said, once it toldme that one of the files was not installed correctly but i have installed and unzipped the file like 5 times now.
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