Custom Skins for DraStic (Updated)

Enhance your DS emulation experience on Android with this set of custom skins for DraStic! This is a follow up to the popular set of DraStic skins I have made years ago, but now the buttons are fully reactive! In addition, the buttons are now movable rather than a static background image. Mix and match buttons and backgrounds to create dozens of different combination and layouts. New skins and layouts are planned to be added with no ETA.

Plus Skins

Making skins is hard work! To show support, please consider purchasing the "Plus" skin collection! This collection includes alternative backgrounds/virtual buttons and exclusive sets! Both free and plus collections will be updated, however some skins will be exclusive to plus. 

Plus currently includes:

• GBC Midnight blue backgrounds
• GBC Pikachu Edition virtual buttons
• Kirby Canvas Curse backgrounds
• Kirby Canvas Curse  virtual buttons

How to Setup DraStic

Due to newer version of Android requiring scope storage, installing skins is a bit tricky, but just follow these steps and you should be good to go. You must use Scoped Storage, otherwise DraStic will not be able to have access to the skin assets. If you already have DraStic setup, you can skip these steps and go onto "Installing Skins". 

Scoped Storage Setup

1. Open DraStic
2. Go to "Change Options"
3. Go to "General"
4. Scroll down and go to "System Directory"
5. Select "Scoped Storage Folder"
6. Create a new folder (e.g. DraStic)
7. Select "Use this folder"
8. Restart DraStic

Installing Skins

Note that the following instructions are not for legacy skin files

1. Download skins and backgrounds from this page
2. Put the virtual_controller folder in your selected scoped storage folder
   1. 1. If done correctly, your folder structure should look like:
         
         - your selected scoped storage
                 - virtual_controller

Installing Backgrounds

Backgrounds currently support the following aspect ratios:

• 16:9
• 18:9
• 19:9
• 19.5:9
• 20:9
• Foldables (inner screen)

If your phone's aspect ratio is not listed above, please leave a comment requesting it.

Since there are many different backgrounds for different devices, it is recommended that you only add backgrounds that you want to use to the backgrounds folder

1. Download skins and backgrounds from this page
2. Navigate into the backgrounds folder inside the downloaded zip
3. In each of the folders, you will find various backgrounds, only extract backgrounds you are planning to use
4. Put your selected background(s) into your selected scoped storage  > backgrounds
   

Applying Skins

1. Open DraStic
2. Go to "Change Options"
3. Go to "Virtual Gamepad"
4. Select "Skin"
5. Select the skin you want to use

Applying Backgrounds

1. Open DraStic
2. Select "load new game" or "continue"
3. Select "Start game"
4. Click on the menu button (center bottom of screen, may have an up arrow icon)
5. Select "Menu"
6. Go to "Edit Screens and Virtual Pad"
7. Select the layout you want to apply the background to
8. Select "Menu"
9. Select "Set background image"
10. Pick the image you want to set as the background
11. Select "Menu"
12. Either select "Save as global layout" to apply this to all games, OR select "Save for current Game" to only have the layout and background applied to the current game

Looking for the legacy version? Download for the old version is provided here as well (DraStic custom skins legacy).