Cool hack

January 31st, 2007 by Andy Zilch Leave a reply »

While looking for a more recent version of the navigation DVD for our 2006 Civic Hybrid w/ DVD Navigation, I found a website that shows ways to update the opening image for the Civic which normally looks like this:

Factory Honda DVD Navigation Boot Screen

to this:

My new DVD Navigation boot screen

The website with the instructions had 2 errors which were easily correctable. In step 2 of the section on changing the splash screen, at one point in the instructions the link to bysin.zip is incorrect. The real link should be: http://www.guicide.com/cars/2006civic/nav/hacks/Bysin.zip instead of http://www.guicide.com/cars/2006civic/nav/hacks/bysin.zip. Also,
while that same step of the instructions contains text stating you should enter the command “bysin 06AVN2.bin extract Opening.bmp“, the image of the author actually doing that command (and the actual command that needs to be entered) “bysin 06AVN2.bin extract Opening1.bmp“.

Other than that, the instructions were dead on, and I was able to follow the procedure very well. The final product looks like:

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