3DS:GYTB

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GYTB (an acronym for Give You This Budge) is a homebrew app for the 3DS that can install image files as custom badges. GYTB only works on system firmwares 9.3 and above.

This page will explain both how to install and how to use this app.


What You Need

  • A 3DS console that can access the Homebrew Launcher
  • The Homebrew Launcher boot.3dsx on the SD root
  • GYTB.zip

Instructions

Section I - Prep Work

  1. Power off the console
  2. Insert your SD card into your computer
  3. Create the folder badges on the root of your SD card
  4. Obtain images you want to use as badges and put them into the badges folder
    • These images must be .pngs whose dimensions are divisible by 64px - Theme Plaza has a large collection of such badge images
  5. Extract GYTB.zip into a folder
  6. Copy the 3ds folder from inside the GYTB folder onto the root of your SD card
  • If you are using macOS, hold the ⌥ Option key while dragging the folders to the root of your SD card, then click Merge
  1. Reinsert your SD card into the console

Section II - Launching GYTB

  1. Power on the console
  2. Open the Homebrew Launcher using any method
  3. Launch GYTB from the list of homebrew
  • If followed properly, you should see your badges flash on the screen, and be sent back to the HOME Menu afterward.

What You Need

Section I - Prep Work

  1. Power off the console
  2. Insert your SD card into your computer
  3. Create the folder badges on the root of your SD card
  4. Obtain images you want to use as badges and put them into the badges folder
    • These images must be .pngs whose dimensions are divisible by 64px - Theme Plaza has a large collection of such badge images
  5. Reinsert your SD card into the console

Section II - Installing GYTB

  1. Power on the console
  2. Open Universal-Updater
  3. Tap the magnifying glass on the bottom screen, then search for GYTB
  4. Press A while hovering over GYTB from the list of homebrew
  5. Choose GYTB.3dsx
  6. Wait until the app installs
  7. Close Universal-Updater

Section III - Launching GYTB

  1. Open the Homebrew Launcher
    • If you already have a Homebrew Launcher icon on the HOME Menu, use that
    • If you do not have this icon, do the following set of steps:
      1. Open Download Play
      2. Open Rosalina (the most common keycombos for the menu are L++SELECT and X+Y
      3. Go into Miscellaneous options, then select Switch the hb. title to the current app
      4. Press B until you exit Rosalina, then close Download Play and reopen it - at this point, the Homebrew Launcher should appear
  2. Launch GYTB from the list of homebrew
  • If followed properly, you should see your badges flash on the screen, and be sent back to the HOME Menu afterward.

Troubleshooting

If GYTB causes an exception when you open it, it is usually one of two reasons:

  1. There is an image whose dimensions can't be divided by 64 in the badges folder
    • preview.png is a common instance of this, especially when downloading from Theme Plaza. Check for this file and delete it.
  2. There are more than 1000 images inside the badges folder
    • The 3DS can only have 1000 badges installed. This is a hard limit that cannot be bypassed; remove images until you are under the limit again.