Editing PlayStation 3 Theme (P3T)

*Installation methods

**Downloaded from PSN (SEN) store

**USB, CF, SD, MS, external storage from path: '''device:/PS3/THEME/Theme Name.p3t'''

**Game discs extras icons (see: [http://www.ps3devwiki.com/wiki/PARAM.SFO#Creating_Discs Creating Discs])

==P3Tcompiler==

*Download links

With the program there is a sample theme ready to compile, you can separate the program folder and the sample folder to any path in your pc, and compile the sample theme just by "drag-and-drop" the simple.xml over ps3compiler.exe (or create a "direct access icon" in the desktop to the program and drag-and-drop .xml files over it). The compiled theme .pt3 is created in the same folder of the source .xml + lot of .gim files (this .gim files are generated in the conversion from .png--->.gim as a previous step before compiling, after compilation the .gim files are not erased)

This is the settings file of the theme, needed by the compiler to build the theme, it contains information about the theme and the author, and lists all the files that composes the theme.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<theme>

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If the theme doesnt contains <localizedinfo> the default texts from <info> are used , so <localizedinfo> is not mandatory, and usually is not needed (most of the <info> contents doesnt need to be translated)

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Background image that appears at top-right corner of XMB for system messages (used e.g: to notify when a trophy is unlocked)

==Mouse Pointers (.PNG)==

Create the sound files in WAV format @ 44100Hz/16bit-Mono (or lower quality to obtain smaller files). Then use MFaudio v1.1 to convert from WAV to VAG

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==Background (.JPG .RAF)==

===Static Background (.JPG)===

The basic entry for 1 background in two aspect ratios (16:9 and 4:3). Is highly recommended to add both aspect ratios for compatibility with all TV's

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Every time the PS3 boots or every time the theme is applyed, the system time is readed (seconds) the number of backgrounds is counted starting from top of the list and one of them is selected based in the number of seconds in ps3 time. E.g. if the theme contains 24 images and is applyed at time 23:58:00 the first background is displayed, if the theme is applyed at 23:58:23 the last background is displayed, after the last background it loops to the first background of the list e.g: if the theme is applyed at 23:58:24 the first background is displayed

<!-------------------------- Backgrounds linked to PS3 time (seconds) -------------------------->

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Note the maximum number of background images supported is 24. You can link them to the 24 hours of the day. Or you can divide the day in 3 periods of 8 hours and use 3 backgrounds for "morning" "evening" and "night"

<!-------------------------- Backgrounds linked to PS3 time (hours of the day). Time in "HH" Format -------------------------->

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Usefull for special days of special months: a birthday, christmas, etc... The background is visible the same days of all years because the year is not specifyed

<!-------------------------- Backgrounds linked to PS3 time (days of months). Time in MMDD Format -------------------------->

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Useful for special days of special years: the next olympic games, the next apocalypse, etc... it can be used for restrictions too, in the example the image is visible for a period of 1 year (from 31 december 2012, until 31 december 2013)

<!-------------------------- Backgrounds linked to PS3 time (days of years). Time in "YYYYMMDD" Format -------------------------->

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This is the entry that links to the .RAF background in the main '''Theme Scene.XML''' file. Note inside the .RAF there is another '''RAF Scene.XML''' that is very different. For more information about this RAf files see: [[Rich Appearance Format (RAF)]]

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In this example the image "safe" is used when the time doesnt match with any of them, the image "win" is used only the day 1 of january of years before 2010 and after 2020, the image "1" is used during the period from 2010 until 2020 included the days 1 of january (in this day "1" and "win" collides and "win" is deprecated because is at the bottom of the list)

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====Static and Dynamic backgrounds linked to PS3 time (seconds)====

This combines static (.jpg images), and dynamic (.raf animations) backgrounds, selected based on seconds

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