How I turned iZune hack into Multi-BG.

[lassard]

INTRO

Since I saw Multi-background Classic Hack, which the author says:

Originally Posted by beans307

I've seen some themes that use a multi-background Classic hack but I've never seen the hack itself. So I loaded all of the Classic resources onto the Touch firmware to make one.

... I've been wondering how exactly to do that, and now that I discovered, I'm here to share with you.

First thing you need is the iTouch 2.0 firmware or any other iTouch based hack, there's no problem. The only important thing here is that it has Multi-BG, so any other Multi-BG hack should work too, maybe with some differences in the steps. I did the conversion with the iZune hack, so you might go into some different things too. Help me improve this topic relating your problems following it.

I won't give too much details, if you don't understand something here, try to learn by yourself like me and everybody else did. These threads should help you:

• The iPod Hacking Bible
• Official Resources Documentation Thread

HACKING

1. Open up the firmware of the iZune or other hack which will be transformed into a Multi-BG one.
2. Save all the Pictures in a special folder for them.
3. Save the Fonts that you know that were changed, eg. the Podium Sans 28 in the iZune hack.
4. Save the String Lang Block 24.
5. Save all Scheme Layouts, Menus and Font Types resources, in a special folder for each of these groups.
6. Open up the iTouch firmware.
7. Notice that Picture 138 (pic21997) is for Main Menu and Picture 282 (pic24395) is for Now Playing screen. You'll have to make some different images for them according to your theme. After you do them, just replace the respective pic2xxxx.bmp in the folder you saved the pictures.
8. Load all pictures, fonts, strings and resources that you saved before.
9. In the Scheme Layouts, find 19328. Change it to be like this - z3: 2561. left: 0. top: 0. right: 0. bottom: 240. Keep the other things like they are.
10. Write, open it again to be sure all changes were applied and Write to iPod!

THE END

If you tested, whatever was the result, post here. If you liked this how-to and you want to make me happy, give me some Rep. or iPH$ ;D

/rice2

[Tylertut]

the best thing to do when editing specific resource is to post the resource in case some people cant get it to work
but nice work!

[lassard]

I attached resource 19328 for iZune Multi-BG as tylertut suggest.

Thanks for the tip