technical request; wondering if anyone's willing to help

[Davy Jones]

in ZSNES and/or SNES9x, is there a way to change the background color so that when you remove backgrounds, it isn't all black? The sprites use full black as an outline, so I lose a good portion of the sprite every time I do that :/

As far as I know: No.

I would try to rip with layers and delete the bothering colours manually.
By the way, did you tried YY-CHR instead of Tile Molester?
http://www.spriters-resource.com/resourc...ychr-snes/