Hi CapnScurvy;
First of all thank you for the quick tutorial.
I've done everything as instructed and the sub icon is gone. One problem though is that when you zoom out, you can still see some sort of black mark or wave stream. Pic link:
http://flic.kr/p/aAPseT
Sorry for the low quality I used an on-line BMP to JPG converter on the fly and unfortunately that was the final result. Anyway it doesn't change that much as you can see right on top of the mouse cursor there lies the sub's "mark". Bringing up my detective side I started to inspect all dds files in the SH4 folder but I was unable to identify which dds is that particular one.
I started looking at the small file size files but still no luck.