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Wii Message Board Image

Super Hackio edited this page Dec 16, 2023 · 3 revisions

The GLE has a special feature for when you get every single registered star - A Message will be sent to the Wii Message Board.
Normally, this is just the picture with all the stars in SMG2, but you can customize this to send a custom letter and a custom image.
Currently, the GLE only supports the use of AllCompleteImage.bin.

Note: You can disable the use of this feature by going into GameSettings.bcsv and setting Data for AllCompleteMessage to "x". (Without quotes).
Turning this feature off is not available in GLE-V2.

The text is inside LocalizeData/<Language>/MessageData/SystemMessage.arc, in WiiMessage.msbt.

Below is a list of information on what is and is not supported by the System:

  • The image must be 512x424 pixels in size
  • The image must be in JPEG format
  • The JPEG must be encoded with Huffman coding
  • The image program must use Baseline DCT encoding (Progressive DCT isn't supported)
  • The image must not contain an embed color profile
  • You can strip metadata off of the file to reduce it's filesize
  • YCbCr 4:4:4 and everything below seem to work
  • Keep the resulting file (with or without metadata) below 150 kb

Once you have a JPEG image, rename it to AllCompleteImage.bin and replace the file inside ObjectData/WiiMessageImage.arc

Note: The programs on this page have been tested already. Other programs may work, but are untested.

Adobe Photoshop CS4

Here are the settings to use when saving the image in JPEG format.

Adobe Photoshop

Paint.net

Here are the settings to use when saving the image in JPEG format.

Paint dot net

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