SwitchStrobe

A very basic edit of switchbrew's simplegfx example.

It is somewhat like WiiStrobe, but for Switch. It can also toggle a scrolling stripe effect where you can customize the colors.

Note: Please use caution if you have a medical condition that can be triggered by flashing patterns, such as epilepsy.

Installation

Place colors.txt and SwitchStrobe.nro to the switch folder on the SD card.

Custom colors:

The file containing the colors has to be named "colors.txt" without the quotes.
Colors have to be hex values of the form BBGGRR.
For example, 8807ff would be Blue:136, Green:7, and Red:255. Casing doesn't matter for hex values. One hex value per line.

You can toggle stripes by pressing D-Pad Left and D-Pad Right at the same time.

The stripes also scroll along the screen. But you can't control/toggle the scrolling.

Plus - Go back to HBMenu

D-Pad Up - Increase number of frames between color swaps (maxes out at 60)

D-Pad Down - Decrease number of frames between color swaps (bottoms out at 1)

Minus - Reset number of frames between color swaps to 10

A - Cycle color 1 right through color list

Y - Cycle color 1 left through color list

X - Cycle color 2 right through color list

B - Cycle color 2 left through color list

D-Pad Left+D-Pad Right - Toggle Stripes

Generic Colors Only:

R/ZR - Increase/Decrease color 1 brightness

D-Pad Right/Left - Reset color 1 brightness to full

L/ZL - Increase/Decrease color 2 brightness

0.2.1 2021/09/29

Realized I might have to update this when it suddenly started crashing after I updated my firmware to 12.1.0 from like 9 or 10.something for Skyward Sword. Might do the same for Mandelbrot Set Viewer.

0.2.0 2019/12/12

I added stripes. You can toggle them by pressing d-pad left and d-pad right at the same time. The stripes also scroll along the screen. You can't control/toggle the scrolling... yet. Also cleaned up my spaghetti code a teeny tiny little bit.
Realized I had resetting color brightness to full mapped to clicking joystick left/right instead of d-pad left/right. Whoops. That's fixed now.

0.1.1 2019/11/16

Just a very basic edit of switchbrew's simplegfx example.
I put a limit on how many colors you can use, should top out at 50 colors. I have not tested this.
I also learned how to edit the makefile to customize the icon and metadata. In a previous version, I used NRO Asset Editor for this purpose.
Generic color list is back to {Black, Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, Magenta, White}.

v0.1.0 2019/11/05

I added support for files, so now you can strobe your own custom colors. If you don't have a colors.txt file, you'll just use a generic list of colors.

v0.0.4 2019/07/04