How To: Build your own Custom ROM! - Page 5

**colonel** · #41 (**permalink**) 01-21-2007, 06:27 PM

Yep, adding REGEDIT4 then saving as Unicode before any editing. I have not noticed any reformatting in the text file. Do I leave the REGEDIT4 in there when I convert back? Getting the hang of things, but I am going to start fresh since I really didn't do that much yet and I want to get rid of all corruption.

**Wideawake** · #42 (**permalink**) 01-21-2007, 06:33 PM

yea leave it in there

have u edited initflash? If so did u hex edit afterwards?
~Mike

**colonel** · #43 (**permalink**) 01-21-2007, 06:45 PM

Yep and yep. I only added one thing, but it did not seem to work. I did this a while back when I could get it to boot. I think the boot issue is somewhere in a corrupt registry.

When you edit initflash, do you have to do anything else such as creating a .lnk file?

"Directory("\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Games"):-File("Pocket Chess.lnk","\Windows\Pocket Chess.lnk")"

In this example from the first post, am I correct in assuming that all you are doing is naming a target directory, naming the file to be linked, and naming where it is found? There does not actually need to be a Pocket Chess.lnk file?

EDIT: Figured it out (I think). You need the shortcuts which are .lnk files. Don't know how to create them though, but I can steal them from cabs if they are available. Also got it to boot by skipping the boot.hv step and just recompiling the dumb to nba to nbf.

**Wideawake** · #44 (**permalink**) 01-21-2007, 06:59 PM

yea I found that making the .lnk on my ppc and active syncing to easiest way for me

**colonel** · #45 (**permalink**) 01-21-2007, 07:06 PM

Were you just dumping the rom after that?

**Wideawake** · #46 (**permalink**) 01-21-2007, 07:11 PM

huh? You lost me. The dumps on the computer, and I would take the .lnks of my ppc and move to the dump folder then rebuild my nk.nbf.
~Mike

**colonel** · #47 (**permalink**) 01-21-2007, 07:29 PM

I read your last post wrong. Slight case of retardedness. What about from scratch?

**Wideawake** · #48 (**permalink**) 01-21-2007, 07:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colonel

I read your last post wrong. Slight case of retardedness. What about from scratch?

new text document type in 24#"\Windows\something.exe" save as select save file type all files, something.lnk. You need to change the number to match the number of characters located after the # sign. (also simple)
~Mike

**colonel** · #49 (**permalink**) 01-21-2007, 08:47 PM

Thanks, getting it. Brain hurts. Need football distraction.

**colonel** · #50 (**permalink**) 01-21-2007, 11:35 PM

Still having trouble getting reg edits to stick. Mostly something is gettng corrupted when converting back from txt to .hv. The batch cranks out a 28kb .hv file that is much smaller than the default.hv in the dump file. When I convert it back to text it is only a few of the registry lines. Not sure what is happening. Have you seen this?

For instance, I will do something very simple like .hv to txt. Open, add REGEDIT4, save as unicode. Then just do the quick change to enable smartdialer. Save, close, txt to .hv and everything is gone. Hopefully this will ring a bell.