Banner File For Game Disc Information And Displaying It In Ipl Main Menu; Figure 2 : An Example Of Game Disc Information Display - Nintendo GameCube Manuallines

5.4 Banner File for Game Disc Information and Displaying it in IPL Main Menu

On the Nintendo GameCube
into the IPL Main Menu once, disc information is displayed on the screen. Banner files are used in this
situation.
In order to display disc information, the following information must be specified in the banner file:
u8 image[2 * DVD_BANNER_WIDTH * DVD_BANNER_HEIGHT]
(DVD_BANNER_WIDTH＝96; DVD_BANNER_HEIGHT=32)
Banner-format image data.
The size is 96x32 (the same as the memory card banner), but the only format that can be used is RGB5A3.
Identical data is used on the menu screen and on the gameplay screen.
There is no problem if the data does not match the memory card banner (although you can use the same data).
u8 shortTitle[32]
The title of the game displayed on the Main Menu screen.
u8 shortMaker[32]
The name of the maker displayed on the Main Menu screen.
You can include just the maker name, or the maker name and the production date (the year).
u8 longTitle[64]
The title of the game displayed during gameplay.
u8 longMaker[64]
The name of the maker displayed on the gameplay screen.
You can include just the maker name, or the maker name and the production date (the year).
u8 comment[128]
Comments displayed on the game play screen.
Example: Luigi's Mansion
Luigi's Mansion
shortTitle
2001 Nintendo
shortMaker
Luigi's Mansion: Lugi's Big Adventure
longTitle
2001 Nintendo
longMaker
The house Luigi won in a sweepstakes is a haunted mansion!
comment
To find his brother Mario, he must explore the big mansion!
Menu Screen
Game Play
Luigi's Mansion
2001 Nintendo
shortMaker
: An example of Game Disc information display
Figure 2
The characters that can be used are the same as those that can be used by the FONT API. Game
Discs intended for the Japanese market can accommodate Level 1 Shift-JIS characters as well as
ASCII and single-byte ("hankaku") katakana characters. Discs intended for the non-Japanese market
can accommodate ANSI 8-bit (WinLatin1) characters. Line feed codes can also be used in comments.
However, if you use many line breaks and characters with wide character widths, there is a possibility
that the comment will not be displayed completely within the frame. In such cases, you would need to
revise your text to make it fit completely within the frame.
© 2001-2002 Nintendo of America Inc.
TM
, when the game is not started immediately and is started after going
banner
longTitle
shortTitle
longMaker
Game Play Screen
Press START/PAUSE to begin.
PRESS
START
Luigi's Mansion: Luigi's Big Adventure
2001 Nintendo
The house Luigi won in a sweepstakes is a
haunted mansion! To find his brother
Mario, he must explore the big mansion!
comment
15
Optical Disc Drive Guidelines
DOL-06-0026-001-A5
Released: 4/18/02