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Graphics > Sprites Question

#16782 - jayzeboss2k4 - Wed Feb 25, 2004 12:47 am

Hi folks !

I would like to know one thing...
My problem is that i would rip some sprites in a gba rom, but the screenshot / OAM Viewer is too cheap, i make a sprite by an hour, and i almost never take the good sreen at right time, so is someone can tell me if it exist any program than can extract directly from the Roms any grpahic ?
And if i do not, please link me some documentation about rom and i'll try to make one :D

Thx


(forgive me if you do not understand what i say, but i'm french 8)...)

#16783 - yaustar - Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:24 am

Cant you use the tile viewer from Visual Boy Advance, save as a bmp and rip it that way? All the tiles used for animation should be there...
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#16786 - RaBBi - Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:50 am

Hi jay ! ^^

I'm French too, perhaps we could talk in private ;)
Don't hesitate, french people are few on gba scene ^^

Anyway, the VBA emulator allows you to disable some BG.
You might use the following menu entries :

Options>Video>Layers (last choice on VBA 1.7)

In addition to CTRL+N (next frame) and File>Screen capture...

Then with an imagery tool, you'd do your sprite stuff.

Hope it helps ^^
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#16808 - jayzeboss2k4 - Wed Feb 25, 2004 8:11 am

Hi !
Thx for your answers ;)
I didn't know the CTRL+N tip, i think it will grantly help me ^_^, but what i was talking about was a program that can extract directly from any rom the sprites ? :D


(nous pouvons biensur parler ensemble en priver si tu veux RaBBi, ca serai avec plaisir :))

#16831 - tepples - Wed Feb 25, 2004 6:14 pm

Not always. Sprite cels in many GBA programs are compressed, and especially for larger sprites, they may not be ordered in left-to-right and top-to-bottom reading order but instead some sort of optimized scattering produced by tools such as Objective.

Still, if a program uses the most straightforward storage for its sprites (uncompressed, 4-bit or 8-bit packed, left-to-right and top-to-bottom), you can rip the data with any tile editor such as 8TED, Tile Molester, etc. This probably won't give you the palettes though.
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