Custom Warning released – Customise the Epilepsy Warning screen to your liking!
Recently, TheFlow has been on a coding spree and apparently, he’s interested in the PSVita’s useless features. Following the release of NoLockScreen, TheFlow released Custom Warning, a plugin that many will surely like!
What is Custom Warning?
With Custom Warning, you can create your own custom epilepsy warning screen!
Custom Warning is a user-land plugin, that hooks into SceShell, which lets you customise the epilepsy screen to your liking! If you don’t know what that is, it’s the screen that pops up about a health warning after the PS/Enso logo when you do a cold boot. With almost certainty, it can be said that this screen is useless to almost all PSVita users and many will be glad to customise it.
Thankfully, changing what’s shown on your epilepsy screen is pretty simple as you only need to edit a TXT file to do so. However, you must use Unicode Little Endian when writing in your custom screen or else it won’t work! Furthermore, it’s important you have “FF FE” if you want to show any text at all. If you don’t want any text, you can simply create a blank BOM (Byte Order Mark) file. It must be noted that this will only work with FW 3.60/5 as only they can use Enso!
How can I create custom epilepsy warning screens? How do I install this?
Thanks to Reddit user “S1ngyy”, creating a custom screen has been made pretty easy.
S1ngyy made some pretty crafty use of Custom Warning and outputted some ASCII art!
To create your own screen, simply do the following:
- Download the TXT from the Google Drive link found in the Reddit post linked below
- Open it in a text editor on your PC, such as Notepad
- IMPORTANT: VitaShell’s text editor can’t be used as it doesn’t properly understand the file’s encoding!
- You can delete everything in the file and write everything you want!
- Even if you delete everything in the file, the “FF FE” bytes at the beginning won’t be removed. You can check this with a hex editor if you want.
- Reboot your PSVita and enjoy your new epilepsy screen!
As editing the custom warning file is pretty easy, we will hopefully see some awesome ASCII art epilepsy warning screens!
Perhaps something like this would be pretty nice!
To install this plugin, simply place it under the *main section of taiHEN’s config file AND make sure you have a “custom_warning.txt” file in ux0:/tai .
Conclusion
If you find any issues, simply report them to TheFlow in the Issues Tab of the GitHub link below. You may also donate him a few bucks for his excellent work via Patreon!
Custom Warning README (very important to check out): https://github.com/TheOfficialFloW/VitaTweaks/
Custom Warning GitHub page(make sure you grab v2): https://github.com/TheOfficialFloW/VitaTweaks/releases/tag/CustomWarning
S1ngyy’s Reddit post to make your life easier: https://www.reddit.com/r/vitahacks/comments/92j2wv/custom_warning_in_action/
TheFlow’s Twitter (further updates): https://twitter.com/theflow0
TheFlow’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheOfficialFloW
Please note that what I did is a custom epilepsy screen warning, not a custom bootlogo! Image updated!
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LOL, it didn’t copy very well…Let’s try another one:
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Antoher fail…:D
gamers rise up
the five pro-gamers turn five keys
now the boot rootkit game userland saga if off again o0
meh bootable games Gilo95
Seemed like a psychological game theflow is playing, ever since he started patreon, he keeps releasing these not so important plugins, in a bid to gain more audiences to support him with patreon, as if “oh! Support me and I will release more stuff” not so useful stuff
what else do you want him to do? the guy released the hacks for your vita to play any game for free and he made it free and you’re complaining that he didn’t do better?
Other way around I suspect – he’s opened a Patreon, and people are paying him a few quid to commission little things like this.
Entitled ***! Without his work, we would have almost nothing. He’s basically 90% of the vita community at this point. He deserves get some recognition after all he did for free.
I like it and it is useful to me. Besides w/o him Vita would have been long dead so have a little respect.
can be just removed to speed up boot process?
No.
“Useful” or not, it’s one more thing we can do to customize our Vitas. I’m about it.
Don’t work for me. Still shows the original warning. hexedit shows the ff fe. plugin and txt are in ur0/tai/ and the plugin is listed in the config in the main section.
tried everything… renamed the plugin from custom_warning_v2.suprx to custom_warning.suprx, custom warning.suprx, moved the files to ux0… nothing.
Sadly…. Great Idea, and im so happy that the community is still alive.
Thanks to T_N
Do you use the .txt file from Reddit? And which FW do your Vita have?
I have 3.65 with v2 of the plugin and the .txt from the Reddit link and it works perfectly fine.
Hey, yes I used the file from reddit, and I habe the vita 1000 with 3.60 henkaku enso 10
If your plugins are located at ur0:tai you still need to put the txt file in ux0:tair
Winners don’t use drugs!
Just put “Nintendo” and show it to a friend and see how he reacts…..
Aurora; do you have a source for the windows ASCII that you posted?
Why not removing it completely and save some boot time with this unnecessary and useless message?.
I want the ascii gotse pic
I can’t get this to work :'(
I’ve edited both the ux0 and ur0 tai config files and placed the plugin in the ur0:tai/ folder.
I’d love this to work with a png file