Windows & PS3 Theme (plus Lightning!)

[Abriael]

Again, thanks! I've deselected the pics to leave the one background on my PC. I don't see a way of doing this on the PS3. No matter - not like I leave the thing on (like PC) or that even when it's on, that I'll have the wallpaper showing

Yeah, I don't think you can change it on the PS3 at all.

[Zerosion]

Quick instructions for getting the desktop pictures on Macs, FYI:

　1. Download the themepack file.
　　　* The filename is "FINAL FANTASY XIV-A Realm Reborn.themepack".
　2. Download a program called The Unarchiver. More info on its product site.
　3. Drag the themepack file onto The Unarchiver application icon.
　　　* This creates a folder called "FINAL FANTASY XIV-A Realm Reborn".
　4. The desktop images are inside that folder, in the "DesktopBackground" folder.
　　　* The images are 1920x1200 in size (16:10 aspect ratio).

Instead of doing this you can just rename the FINAL FANTASY XIV-A Realm Reborn.themepack to FINAL FANTASY XIV-A Realm Reborn.rar and extract them with Winrar. 7zip works too. And I imagine any other program that can extract files.

The problem is indeed that there are reference to Japanese files in the theme. Either western operating systems can't read them, or they simply can't find them in your system.

I fixed it real quick. You can grab it here while Square Enix gets around fixing their own file.

Abriels worked well for me. Although instead of using it I conbined all the stuff from this theme pack(wallpapers), the older theme pack(sounds, wallpapers) and the theme I use and love for the windows menus.

[Abriael]

Abriels worked well for me. Although instead of using it I conbined all the stuff from this theme pack(wallpapers), the older theme pack(sounds, wallpapers) and the theme I use and love for the windows menus.

hehe that's exactly the same I did for my own use

[Rowyne]

Abriels worked well for me. Although instead of using it I conbined all the stuff from this theme pack(wallpapers), the older theme pack(sounds, wallpapers) and the theme I use and love for the windows menus.

Me too! The first theme released back in May (the Win8/IE10 collaboration) had two wallpapers and 7 sounds, while this one had 7 wallpapers and one sound (a sound that already came with the first theme, so it wasn't anything new). I just put the new wallpapers in the DesktopBackground folder of the old theme and combined them for super fantasticness!

Edit: Now that they've fixed the NA theme, it appears that what seemed to be only one sound was actually an unzipped soundpack. There are 11 sounds with the new theme, and some of them are redone and fit better with the ARR sound scheme.

[ArkhamNative]

Instead of doing this you can just rename the FINAL FANTASY XIV-A Realm Reborn.themepack to FINAL FANTASY XIV-A Realm Reborn.rar and extract them with Winrar. 7zip works too. And I imagine any other program that can extract files.

Did you miss that my instructions were for Mac users? If not, boring Mac-relevant details follow.

I was a little shocked that there actually is a version of "WinRAR" that runs on Macs. However it's a unix command-line executable, which isn't nearly as simple to use as drag-and-drop with no rename. I didn't try 7zip for Mac because it requires the extra step of downloading it via BitTorrent, and that's already more complicated than the one download I suggested.

The theme file is actually a Microsoft .cab file. Many Windows file extractor utilities will unarchive them, but pure .rar ones don't (like UnRarX on Mac: "not a RAR archive"). "The Unarchiver" does, and also doesn't choke on the kanji in the sound filename.