The VG Resource

Here I'm going to share my thoughts and WIPs as someone who's new to sprite ripping. Right now I'm interested in ripping from arcade games only but that might change.

https://www.spriters-resource.com/arcade...et/216955/

Currently working on: Tetris: The Absolute – The Grand Master 2

Future plans: Saboten Bombers, Hippodrome, Puzzle Uo Poko

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So, TGM2. The reason why I've decided on this game is simple: I love the animated backgrounds of it and couldn't find them in good quality. I obviously didn't expect this to be easy, but little did I know what awaits...
To put in short: I cannot understand why background animation frames are stored like THAT.

Each animation consists of 32 frames, which are stored in groups of 4 sprites, scrambled like this: frame 1 row 1, frame 2 row 1, frame 3 row 1, frame 4 row 1, frame 1 row 2 and so on. One can imagine how tedious was the process of separating and rearranging rows in the correct order. Yeah, and also backgrounds are stored not in an order they appear in game. Good thing they all use the same pallette which changes dynamically. Which is also a bad thing since you need to actually reach level 900+ to get a correct pallette. At least my previous experience in TGM1 and the magic of save states helped with that a plenty.

Whew, it's been a while since my previous project. First of all, I improved some technical stuff, like doing a rewrite of my photoshop scripts and making a small tool to generate palette swaps from MAME screenshots. Going to improve the functionality for future projects or maybe even for public release.


So, Puzzle Uo Poko, an arcade puzzle made by CAVE and published by Jaleco. I mostly wanted to get sprites for playable characters (especially that rather brutal game over screen), maybe I'll return and grab some other assets outta here. One thing worth mentioning is that this game stores a good half of graphics data in 16x1 tiles, like this:

Wasn't much of a pain to get rid of the gaps though, but scripts took a while to finish it nonetheless.

Next is either Saboten Bombers or something old, fast and easy like Time Tunnel.