Updates Archives

No, we are not dead! I have loads and loads of schoolwork and otherwise to accomplish at the moment, blahblahblah same old story. Nevertheless, the pile of skins loading up on the forums and in my inbox serve as a reminder of this half-dead endeavour of ours, and the nearly-completed website for our new domain hovers in dark corners and mocks us while we're sleeping... WHILE WE'RE SLEEPING! The aforementioned issues will be dealt with. There will be a huge update this weekend, I promise... providing I'm still alive after telling my co-workers that I've promised this.

Duude. We had our release date for xBox 360 wrong. It was the space monkeys again, I'm sure.

The problem has been rectified. Thanks to Clayton for pointing it out.

Just a quick update today -- Added 18 lovely new skins by Kimi and Andrew for the RENT movie; added a new skin in the Zelda pack by Steven; added a skin pack for The Producers movie, by Ryan. They're all on the skins page. Thanks to you all!

Rather large update today! The following skins have just been added to/updated on the skins page:
::The Legend of Zelda
::Spider-Man 3
::XBox360 v2.1 (Added 1 skin)
::Harry Potter 4 v3.0 (Added 10 skins)
::Final Fantasy: Advent Children (Added 1 skin)
::RENT
::Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
::Da Vinci Code
::X-Men 3
Thanks to everyone who contributed to these packs! I've also updated the program with new release date presets, for your convenience. Thanks for the support, everyone!

Hey all... been a while! Though I've been slacking recently, I'll try to keep on top of things from now on. As for today, I've added skin packs for XBOX 360 (version 2), Events (featuring Graduation, New Baby, Retirement, Vacation, Wedding), E3 (version 1.1), and Talk Like a Pirate Day. You can find all these on the skins page. Thanks to Kaioshen, Chad, Conner, Chris, Eques_Ardor and Tim for their submissions to these packs! Keep sending those skins/requests in!

Added new XBOX 360 and Final Fantasy: Advent Children packs to the skins page.

OK! Since the high quality versions of the Harry Potter pictures have come out... I've added eleven more skins to the Harry Potter 4 skin pack. I've also added a new skin to the Harry Potter 6 skin pack, with contributions from Peter and Emily. Make sure to update your copies!

The School Break skin package has also been updated with some beautiful new skins for summer, which are a must-have. A new skin package for the E3 Expo has also been released. Get these and more on the skins page!

I have some other skins to add as well, so don't think I've forgotten you if you've sent some in and I haven't put them up yet! Keep sending the skins in, I'll add them as soon as I can! Thanks all!

It's HARRY POTTER TIME!!! That's right ladies and gentlemen... after a long delay of slacking off on my part, I've finally released two skin packages for Harry Potter 6 (Book) and Harry Potter 4 (Movie). Go pick them up now! Thanks for contributions from Mike, Emily and Tracy. Keep sending those skins in!

Alright - I've added some new skins that people have sent in, featuring two new skins for War of the Worlds by Brad, Batman Begins by Umsteakj, and another Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skin by Babis. They're all on the skins page!

Added a new skin by JiFish for PlayStation Portable. Also released version 1.2 of the Star Wars Episode III skin package, featuring 5 new skins, one of which is by DarthNigel. As usual, they're on the skins page. I also added some more release dates presets in the program. Enjoy!

Sorry for the downtime the past couple days... somehow the DNS entries for the programs.ywing.net subdomain got messed up. Everything appears to be back up, but feel free to let us know if something isn't working correctly.

Woots! Been a while... but I've finally added some more skins! I added a new skin package by StK for Sin City, as well as one from JiFish for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... and finally I've added 5 more skins, with one addition from StK, to the Star Wars Episode III skin pack. As usual, all these can be found on our skins page. I'm a little clogged up with requests and additions... needless to say, but I'll try and get caught up in the next couple of days. In the mean time, sign up and post on our pseudo-new forums ;)

By request, I made one more skin for Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. You can get it on the skins page. :)

The PhanTim3 forums have moved! The new URL is http://forum.phantim3.com. Note that if you had a registered account on the old forums, you'll need to re-register over there. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Added five new skins to the Halo 2 skin pack (thanks Tom, Flath12, Zexan and D_BRINGER). Make sure to pick up the new version on the skins page and use the skins before it comes out on Tuesday! :)

The Halo 2 Skin Pack has been modified with two new beautiful skins by D_BRINGER and JustDave. Thanks so much! Make sure to check it out.

--Added a small skin pack for Nintendo Dual Screen, that can be found on the skins page. Yes, it's only two skins. But I'm lazy, it's a platform, and altogether not very interesting. Maybe if it got up and danced or put on something sexy, it would merit more skins than that... but as it is, that's all you're getting. So stop your whining!

It has been brought to our attention that a malware detection utility known as "PestPatrol" is producing a false positive with the Halo 2 Skin Pack. Please be advised that this is indeed an incorrect report. We have attempted to contact the company responsible for PestPatrol to inform them of this glitch, but have not received a response thus far. Any new information will be posted on the forums.

A small Half-Life 2 skin pack has been added to the skins page, now that it finally has a release date (lol).

--Added a skin by Joseph for The Black Mages II Album coming out in December. I also included two new Halo 2 skins to the ever-growing plethora; these ones by Sean and and another by D_BRINGER. Make sure to grab the latest version of the Halo 2 skin pack! You can get these on the skins page (where else would they be!).

Thanks to everyone spreading the word and giving suggestions for PhanTim3! We appreciate the user feedback and hope you will continue to give us your input :D

A new Gamers Skin Pack has been added to the skins page! Targeted at gamers for any platform (or computer...), this pack features skins for 10 upcoming games including Battlefield 2, Half Life 2, Metroid Prime 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, and many more! Be sure to check it out!

--Added two new skins to the Halo 2 skin package, by Mikael and Jyaashu. Thanks so much! Also added a new skin pack by Ken Molen, for the upcoming movie Serenity. You can grab both of these from the skins page, as usual. Enjoy!

Released version 2.1 of the Halo 2 skin package, featuring three new skins by D_BRINGER and Wes; Also it is correcting the previous name of Nancy, with the actual author of Sothpaw :) Enjoy!

Thanks everyone: we've just passed 5000 downloads! A large chunk of these have occurred in the last month or so (thanks Halo 2 players) after we were linked off of a large Halo 2 fansite. Please continue to spread the word, and if there is enough demand, we may just release another version :)

Due to popular demand, more Halo 2 skins have been added to the skins page. If you have the old version of the package, it'll work fine to download the new one and install it over top of the old. Thanks also to Sothpaw for his contribution. Enjoy!

Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars skins added to the skins page.

Hey just a small thing; thanks to Howard pointing it out; there was a mistake in the recent Star Wars III skins. I had one labelled as Bai Ling, where that was actually the actress' name! The name has been updated to Senator Bana Breemu, as appropriate. If it really matters to you, you can download the skin pack, install it, and then delete the old folder for Bai Ling. Sorry for the mistake!

I have finally added the long awaited Star Wars Episode III skin package to the skins page. Go grab em now! Hopefully as time goes on better pictures will be released and I will make an appendage (hehe that sounds naughty) to the package. But for now, enjoy!

Added a new skin package for the upcoming Xbox game - Halo 2. You can grab em on the skins page, as usual. Enjoy!

Added a new skin by Sebastien, for Kill Bill Vol2 DVD; thanks so much! Grab it off the skins page :D

Also redid the Van Helsing skin package with beautiful new skins for the Van Helsing DVD! Thanks so much Karin :D You can also get those off the skins page... gogogo!

Added a small Alien vs. Predator skin package, with help from Sebastien :) You can download it on the skins page. Get it quickly before its Theatre release on the 13th of August!

Added a beautiful new skin package by Karin! It contains skins for Van Helsing, which is released on DVD September 28, 2004. You can download this package on the skins page. Thanks Karin!

I've added an explanation on how to do advanced customization of skins (change font colour, face, size, and positioning of the numbers) to the make your own skins page. This tutorial was long overdue - sorry it took so long! :) If you run in to any difficulties, feel free to ask for further explanation on the forums.

I just added a skin pack for The Sims 2, a game I personally can't wait to get my hands on. :) It's on the skins page.

Hey all, added a new skin package for the upcoming movie The Phantom of the Opera. You can download this on the SKINS page!! Go go!

It's that time again! Did we hit another landmark in downloads? Not quite... but we're almost at 3000 downloads, so hopefully with this new news item we can push it over:

NEW VERSION 1.1.0 You can get it from the download page. This version includes an installer/uninstaller, adds a few items to make skin creation even more painless (like a "Refresh" button on the skin chooser), adds an "Opacity" option to make PhanTim3 translucent if you wish, and adds a "Presets" drop-down to the Choose Date/Time window. The latter is definitely very cool since the presets are dynamically downloaded from the PhanTim3 website each time you run the program, so they always stay up-to-date! For now there are only a few, but be ready for lots of new ones to "magically appear" in the near future. As always you can e-mail us or post on the forums if there are specific types of Presets that you don't see and would like to. For a full list of changes and updates, see the included Readme file. *NOTE: be sure to read the notes on the download page if you are upgrading from an older version! Star Wars Original Trilogy Skins New skin pack on the skins page. That's right: 17 beautiful new skins by Amy to help pass the time until the Star Wars DVD release, or even Episode III (and those two dates already appear as presets; be sure to check it out!). *NOTE: the new skin packs will only install/work correctly with version 1.1.0 or above, so make sure to install the new version of PhanTim3 before downloading the new skins!

So there you have it! Be sure to upgrade to the new version and enjoy all of the new features and skins. As always, comments and suggestions are welcome!

We've hit 2000 downloads! Woots! Maybe this'll motivate me to actually do something ^_^

Added a beautiful skin package by Katie. It includes skin backgrounds for school breaks (spring, summer, winter). Mucho thankies!! You can download it from the skins page.

Added a new skin package by Magma. You can see it on the skins page. Thanks so much!! If you want to submit your own you can use the form or leave us a message on the forum.

In light of us reaching 1000 downloads (yay!), we have released several new things:

NEW VERSION 1.0.3 You can get it from the download page. This version allows the changing of font, placement and colour of the numbers on the skins. A tutorial will be up shortly describing how to do this. *NOTE: make sure any running PhanTim3s are shut down before installing a new version. Harry Potter 3 Skins New skin pack on the skins page. These skins are included in the new version so there is no need to download them again. *NOTE: these skins will ONLY work properly with the new version 1.0.3, so if you have an old version of the program you will need to download the new one if you want the HP3 skins to work.

I will be adding more skins periodically over the next couple of days, so stay tuned! And remember to join our notify list (at the bottom of the page) to be informed of new updates!

Once Upon A Time In Mexico Skins released. They can be downloaded from the skins page. I apologize in advance for the bad naming scheme on some of the skins, I was too lazy to look up people's names :) If it really bothers you, you can change the folder name and it'll change it in the program. These skins are not included in the program and have to be downloaded separately.

For those of you using PhanTim3 to count down to a holiday like your birthday or Christmas, I've created a holiday skin pack. Skins are included for Christmas, birthdays, Halloween, Easter, Valentine's Day, Thanksgiving, and New Years. Get it on the skins page. They are NOT included in the program and must be downloaded separately.

Version 1.0.2 released. This release attempts to address some issues with certain windows display settings.

Troy skins released, you can download them from the skins page. Note that they are NOT included in the program, so you must download them separately. Enjoy.

Version 1.0.1 released. Changed/fixed the sorting of the Skin Chooser list. See the Readme for a full list of changes.

There was a discrepancy in the RotK skins as to the "SECS" not being lined up under the numbers. They have been fixed so this won't affect anyone downloading the program now, but anyone who has previously downloaded PhanTim3 and wants their RotK skins fixed will have to download the skin package from the skins page separately. The new skins extract themselves to the skins folder, and simply overwrite the old ones.

Site Opened, Version 1.0.0 released.