This is the evolution of the 4+4-skin CG52. I have added a new folder into the Skins folder called Custom and inside that are the startup/shutdown animation and sound, which now can be changed via Windows Explorer in the same way as before with the skins.
Installation is the same way as before.
First
download the package and unpack.
Then select "Storage Device" or "Memory card" in USB Settings in Connection and connet to PC via USB cable and wait until Windows has recognised the V8 "User" partition, Open Windows Explorer and copy the "Skins" folder with all the content into the "root directory" of the V8 User partition. (In plain English now: the V8 shows up as Removable Disk F: in my Windows Explorer, so I copy the "Skins" folder from the package into F: - F: is the "root directory"!).
Once that is done then you can flash the flash (Total-Custom-CG52.sbf) onto your V8 with RSD.
Now the animation files can be any name, as long as they are still animated gif files. Best are not longer then 3 seconds animation and not much bigger then 400 KB.
The sound files have to be the exact same name always, so you can use a file called "Dirty_Punk.wav" and rename it to "ui_power_up_mono.wav" if you want it to be the startup sound or into "ui_power_down_mono.wav" if it should be the shutdown sound. Also here are sound not much longer then 3 seconds best.
Now that is me done, you can change 4 skins (once the iconres.ezx can be edited), the startup sound and animation and the same for the shutdown, all via Windows Explorer, no more need to create CG52's.
You also can use the filemanager on the V8 to browse the folders and files.