sfangc, maybe it is just me but i tought providing a gui romtool such as xipport would be painless enough... you would not want to try serious rom editing without it
(even though i did the first released rom version that way. 2.0 was made using xipport
). and i provided a base rom and packages for it, apparently i managed to make the description of xipport usage too complex, or i don't know - can you explain what your trouble with it is?
anyway Rich's tool is very nice because it sums up the steps for you in a clickable GUI and will take care of the NB0/BIN conversion and saves you from the pain of entering the commandline commands for the registry scripts.
but you still have to use xipport, so please let us know what your problem is with it. thanks