3DS:Editing the HOME Menu

HOME Menu edits are not the same thing as custom themes; they require significantly more setup/knowledge to create. If you just want to install or create a theme, see 3DS:Custom themes.

This page will cover how to edit the 3DS HOME Menu. By following this guide, you will be able to:

Replace text and words on your HOME Menu
Customize the positions of things like the wireless indicator bar and the time/date display
Edit your Sleep Mode screen completely
Change the color of applets and the words that appear when you open them

Using LayeredFS to customize your HOME Menu

Some things in this guide will require hexadecimal colors and knowledge of coordinates.

What You Need

Home Menu Rebuilding Tool
HME Positions
The latest version of HxD
The latest version of MSBT Editor Reloaded
The latest version of Cheat Engine

Section I: Prep Work

If you can't extract the .7z or .rar filetypes, download and install 7-Zip before continuing.

Download and extract the contents of HMRT_Dev_Build_v0.7.7z
Download and install HxD, or alternatively download and extract the portable version
Download and extract the contents of the latest MSBT.Editor.Reloaded.rar file
Download and install the latest version of Cheat Engine
Download the HME Positions file

Section II: Obtaining and Decompressing your HomeMenu.cia File

Insert your SD Card into your console if you do not already have it in
Power on your console while holding the START button to open GodMode9
- Navigate to [1:] SYSNAND CTRNAND
- Navigate to title
- Navigate to 00040030
- Navigate to the folder corresponding to your region:
  - USA: 00008F02
  - EUR: 00009802
  - JPN: 00008202
- Navigate to content
- Press (A) on the .tmd file → TMD file options... → Build CIA (standard)
Turn off your system and insert your SD card into your computer
Navigate to /gm9/out on your SD card
Rename your dumped .cia file to HomeMenu.cia and place in the same folder as the Home Menu Rebuilding Tool
- The name of this file will include the name of the folder corresponding to your region above
Launch the Home Menu Rebuilding Tool.bat file from where you extracted it
In the newly opened window, press 1, let it complete the action, and then press 5

Section III: Editing the HOME Menu and Sleep Mode Screen Text

Launch the MsbtEditor.exe file from where you extracted it
Open /ExtractedRomFS/message/<Region of your console>_<Language of your console>/menu_msbt.LZ in MSBT Editor
- You may now edit any of the text by selecting a string from the list on the left and editing the text in the top left box
  - Depending on what you edit, your changes may not appear in the places you want them to
- If you're only wanting to edit the sleep menu text, the strings to edit are as follows:
  - lau_b_shutdown
  - lau_press_pow_u0
  - lau_press_pow_u1
  - lau_press_pow0
  - lau_press_pow1
  - lau_press_pow2
  - lau_press_pow3
  - lau_press_pow4
  - lau_press_pow5
  - lau_press_pow5_flw
- When you are done, click File in the very top left corner and click Save

Section IV: Editing the Sleep Mode Screens Colors

Launch HxD from wherever you installed or downloaded it
Open the /ExtractedRomFS/sleep.LZ file in HxD
- These are the values you can modify:

Description	Bottom Screen	Top Screen
Background	0x00001260	0x00001CD4
Background Glow	0x00001264	0x00001CD8
Background Stripes	0x0000125C	0x00001CD0
Header Color	-	0x00001D70
Text Color	0x000012FC	0x00001DA4
Footer Color	0x0000122C	0x00001EA8
Line Color	0x00001554	0x00001E24
Button Text Color	0x000014D4	-
Button Text Mask	0x000014A0	-
Button Color	0x0000132C 0x000013E4	-
Button Glow	0x00001330 0x000013E8	-

To jump to a value, press Ctrl+G and enter everything from the offset value excluding 0x
Each of these values are 3 size offsets, so only edit the next 3 pairs of hex for each offset
After you are done replacing the hex values with the colors you desire, click File in the top left corner and click Save

Section V: Editing Applet Colors

Open the /ExtractedRomFS/launcher.LZ file in HxD
- These are the values you can modify;

Icon	Color 1	Color 2
Miiverse	0x00031DA8	0x00031DAC
Internet Browser	0x00031E84	0x00031E88
Notifications	0x00031F60	0x00031F64
Friend List	0x0003203C	0x00032040
Game Notes	0x00032118	0x0003211C

To jump to a value, press Ctrl+G and enter everything from the offset value excluding 0x
Each of these values are 3 size offsets, so only edit the next 3 pairs of hex for each offset
After you are done replacing the hex values with the colors you desire, click File in the top left corner and click Save
You will need to edit banner colors separately in their own unique files;
- /ExtractedRomFS/3D/BannerAppletFriend.LZ (Friends)
- /ExtractedRomFS/3D/BannerAppletMemo.LZ (Game Notes)
- /ExtractedRomFS/3D/BannerAppletMvs.LZ (Miiverse)
- /ExtractedRomFS/3D/BannerAppletNews.LZ (Notifications)
- /ExtractedRomFS/3D/BannerAppletWeb.LZ (Internet Browser)
Color offsets for these files are different, they are the same for each file;

Color 1	Color 2
0x00001D7C	0x00001D80

After editing all of your files and replacing all the colors, close HxD

Section VI: Editing the HUD

Launch Cheat Engine from wherever you downloaded or installed it
Open the file /ExtractedRomFS/hud.LZ in Cheat Engine
- If an error occurs, just press Okay and continue
Drag and drop the HME Positions .CT file into the Cheat Engine window
- You may now edit the color and position values of elements as you please
- Colors here are not in hexadecimal format, they are in RGB format
- Refer to the below image for coordinates;
- If you want to remove an element, you can edit the position values of the corresponding element to a very high number
- This does not work for the connection status bar. If you want to remove it, open hud.LZ in HxD and change the following offsets to 00:
- 0x000097E2
- 0x000098A2
- 0x00009962
- The above are 1 size offsets, so only edit the pair your cursor jumps to when entering the offset value
- When you are done editing the values, check the box of each one you edited and close Cheat Engine

Section VII: Using LayeredFS to Apply your Changes

Launch the Home Menu Rebuilding Tool.bat file from where you extracted it if it is not already open and press 6
Navigate to the luma folder on your SD card
Create a folder named titles if it doesn't already exist
Go into your newly created folder and create another folder with the name corresponding to your region;
- USA: 0004003000008F02
- EUR: 0004003000009802
- JPN: 0004003000008202
Copy your ExtractedRomFS folder from where you extracted the Home Menu Rebuilding Tool to the /luma/titles/<name according to region above> folder
Rename the ExtractedRomFS folder you just copied to romfs
Put your SD card into your console
Power on your console while holding SELECT to bring up the Luma Configuration menu
Use the D-Pad to scroll down to Enable game patching and press A to enable it if it is not already enabled
Press START

You should now see your changes when your console boots. Keep all the files in the Home Menu Rebuilding Tool folder in case you want to make more edits later. If you do want to make edits later, start this guide from Section II step 7 and only press 5.

Credits

Thank you to anyone who has helped improve or perfect this guide.

Thank you to whoever made this page.