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Tutorials - Maxpphire - 07-17-2013
Yo, who here can point me in some direction on how to Rip GBC sprites?
I don't care if it is a link to a tutorial or if you wanna explain stuff to me or what have you.
I have these games and I feel the urge to Rip the Sprites.
RE: Tutorials - SuperFlomm - 07-17-2013
I know 2 ways to rip GBA and GBC sprites
1.
Visual Boy Advance has tools for sprite ripping.
You can find them in Tools.
You'll need the Map Viewer, OAM Viewer and Tile Viewer. What you use depends on what you want to rip.
Now you can save them as pngs and make a sheet in Paint or another program.
2.
I use this technique for animated stuff
For this you use something called frame advance. This means you can play the game frame by frame.
Note: this works with the standart emulator, but its easier if you use an emlulator which supports rerecording, because the standart emulator doesn't update the screen if you use frame advance.
To get the sprites you just have to make a Screenshot.
You can disable layers, to get most of the sprites on a blank background.
Be carefull if you use screenshots for GBC games, because Visual Boy Advance crops it a bit on the smallest screen setting. To work around this issue, I set the window to two times as lange, so every pixel is 2x2 pixels. Then I take the screenshots and shrink them down in paint.
I'm sure there is a better way, but I don't know.
Anyway, good luck!
Edit: If you want to compress you sheet a bit to make it smaller, then you can use PngGauntlet. Very usefull and easy tool.
