03-01-2010, 08:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-01-2010, 08:53 AM by TheouAegis.)
I upped a section icon, but if you'd rather have it with a screenshot, ok.
Actually adult Kitarou and Medama Oyaji are playables, while all the others are NPCs, yes. Nezumi Otoko is technically "neutral" since he's an enemy early on then an ally later in the game. Since he's a regular in the anime, I kept him in the "friendlies" category.
And it didn't take very long. As I said, I haven't worked in a month. My job is too slow. (
) ... Actually now that I think about it, I think it's been 2 weeks. I took a few hours break to try an MMORPG (didn't like the one I d/led) and a short break to play GeGeGe on the PSX. I slept a lot, but then had so much energy from not working that I stayed up for 32 hours straight. That was the day I played the MMORPG though, so I guess it doens't count.
But yeah. God, some of the sprites sucked to rip. Kitarou's Youkai Reactor, for one, I could have easily simplified -- make it an 8x8 pixel tile as opposed to a 4x1 tiled sprite -- but by the time I realized that, I had half of what's in his sheet ripped. >_> So I spent another hour after the three I spent ripping it reorganizing it. The pot sprite was another 3+ hour job because I had to sit there with an AVI and go frame by frame copying the jar's pieces onto a separate layer over frame AND in the same order they're drawn on the screen.
Like I said in my Ripping Project thread, they made this thing a pain to work with. And I swear they had multiple artists programming everything with little or no direction. Some sprites are oversized due to a single pixel (so anyone using these sheets will have to be careful). Sometimes extranneous pixels will be at the top, actually programmed there. Other times they move the entire sprite down a pixel so that extra pixel is at the bottom of the sprite. And then sometimes they just don't bother with the pixel at all and you're left with "open" sprites, like Yagyohsan.
I cheated a little using Visual Boy Advance so I didn't have much use for the tile viewer, but in Gashadokuro's case, it was the only way I could get his entire body. Now THAT I was kinda proud of.
Actually adult Kitarou and Medama Oyaji are playables, while all the others are NPCs, yes. Nezumi Otoko is technically "neutral" since he's an enemy early on then an ally later in the game. Since he's a regular in the anime, I kept him in the "friendlies" category.
And it didn't take very long. As I said, I haven't worked in a month. My job is too slow. (
) ... Actually now that I think about it, I think it's been 2 weeks. I took a few hours break to try an MMORPG (didn't like the one I d/led) and a short break to play GeGeGe on the PSX. I slept a lot, but then had so much energy from not working that I stayed up for 32 hours straight. That was the day I played the MMORPG though, so I guess it doens't count. But yeah. God, some of the sprites sucked to rip. Kitarou's Youkai Reactor, for one, I could have easily simplified -- make it an 8x8 pixel tile as opposed to a 4x1 tiled sprite -- but by the time I realized that, I had half of what's in his sheet ripped. >_> So I spent another hour after the three I spent ripping it reorganizing it. The pot sprite was another 3+ hour job because I had to sit there with an AVI and go frame by frame copying the jar's pieces onto a separate layer over frame AND in the same order they're drawn on the screen.
Like I said in my Ripping Project thread, they made this thing a pain to work with. And I swear they had multiple artists programming everything with little or no direction. Some sprites are oversized due to a single pixel (so anyone using these sheets will have to be careful). Sometimes extranneous pixels will be at the top, actually programmed there. Other times they move the entire sprite down a pixel so that extra pixel is at the bottom of the sprite. And then sometimes they just don't bother with the pixel at all and you're left with "open" sprites, like Yagyohsan.
I cheated a little using Visual Boy Advance so I didn't have much use for the tile viewer, but in Gashadokuro's case, it was the only way I could get his entire body. Now THAT I was kinda proud of.