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Graphics > sprites extractor

#7806 - toto36 - Wed Jun 25, 2003 10:01 am

is there a tool for extracting all the sprites and maps of a rom
in visual boy advance i can save the graphics that are only active on the screen
thanks :)

#7830 - tepples - Thu Jun 26, 2003 6:21 am

toto36 wrote:
is there a tool for extracting all the sprites and maps of a rom
in visual boy advance i can save the graphics that are only active on the screen

To extract uncompressed sprites from a ROM, you could try 8TED or Tile Molester. However, many GBA games use data compression to squeeze more sprites into 8 MB; for that, you can try logging Huffman and LZ77 decompression calls, but it's much more work. The gurus at this are the ROM translation hackers.

But why would you want to do this? Capcom owns a copyright on the sprites of Mega Man and Street Fighter games.
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#7852 - toto36 - Thu Jun 26, 2003 6:06 pm

thanks for your help :)