Sprite Sheets

[mrhaboobi]

Hi Guys.

ive posted this in the other forum more specific to pc dev, but wondered if it would hurt to post in here aswell.  ( if so you can close the thread )

Im after sprite sheets for TG games, ive had little luck extracting myself, but wondered if anyone had a tool or could provide a web site that may have most of the ones im after.  Alternatively if there are arcade ports of the games ( like tonma ) then a resource for that would be fine

Thanks

"Hey Guys.

im dabbling in XNA and PSX coding, just getting my head general game concepts.

Wanted to use some PCE/TG16 games as a way to learn wondering if anyone knows of a good sprite resource for games like Legend of hero tonma, star soliders etc.. just wanting to re create the odd game and learn before making something totally original ( i cant draw for peanuts  )..

hope someone might be able to help

greg"

[Arkhan]

I swear I replied to this? !

have you tried opening Hero Tonma in Mednafen and using the vram viewer?  It shows all the sprites.

[mrhaboobi]

I swear I replied to this? !

have you tried opening Hero Tonma in Mednafen and using the vram viewer?  It shows all the sprites.

Yup you replied and so did i back to you mednafen didnt show the sprites, only the background.. i wastn able to find sprite or character data.  just a dark blue screen essentially.

[ParanoiaDragon]

As far as I know, there is know tool I know of for ripping or viewing sprites, but it sure would be nice to have one, no doubt!

[Arkhan]

did you be sure to do:

load game
go to actual game (not title screen)
alt-d (debugger)
alt-2 (vram viewer)
press right arrow key (sprite screen)
scroll down til you see sprites...

[mrhaboobi]

did you be sure to do:

load game
go to actual game (not title screen)
alt-d (debugger)
alt-2 (vram viewer)
press right arrow key (sprite screen)
scroll down til you see sprites...

Yup those were the steps i followed.  I scrolled a long way down intially i was presented with a large dark blue block.  After this, nothing essentially i was scrolling and there was nothing to see , just the numbers ticking up.  I could see all/most of the background, but character sprites were not there.  On the odd occasion i did some something other than the dark blue, this was normally right at the top of the scree, and at best it was a black or grey image, not very clear, perhaps issues with CLUTS ( does the PCE use these? )..  So no luck with Tonma and the debugger.  Welcome t give it a try and see if you have any luck, could it be an emu setting i have wrong..  does anyone know if MAME can rip sprites?

[Arkhan]

im going to try it out as soon as class is out and I find a hero-tonma rom. :-D

[mrhaboobi]

i used the Jap rom as the US one didnt seem to want to load..

[awack]

here are a few.


run, duck, shoot and jump.

[mrhaboobi]

ahh yes, how did you find those?

the best ive found so far is

http://pixel.garoux.net/game/5

which is good, but missing some of the things like bullet sprites etc..

[awack]

Those are from the pc engine port by the way.

I did them myself, just now.

[mrhaboobi]

how did you export them?  if you can get more id be very happy   what tools are you using?

[awack]

No tools, just one frame at a time, each one of these took me less than 3 minutes.

[mrhaboobi]

well you're better than me or at least more patient:)..  if you feel like ripping the entire game then that would be great, could you email me the original graphics?  any chance they can be put on top of a different background such as magenta ..  thanks alot for your help..

[awack]

any chance they can be put on top of a different background such as magenta

Like the shade of magenta below?

Are you using Magic Engine? you might want to download the emulator, Ootake, or wait to see if Arkhan can figure out hero tonma and the mednafen debugger.