04-20-2011, 05:54 PM
I updated the list on the first site, there are still many backgrounds left and I will only do the dungeons. At the moment, the cities are too annoying to rip for me and not as interesting as the other tilesets. I will also not rip the items, because they're too time expensive. The enemies... yeah, now I will fight with duplicates.
My theory: The developers created different sets of high-colour-sprites which they wanted to use in different areas. Each of this sets had more than 256 colours, nevertheless they reduced them all to 8-bit.
Now we have dozens of different sets but with identical sprites and different colour gradients. Luckily, most of the enemies and bosses are uneffected cause they were stored in a different file. Exceptions are Alhazad, Lady Harken's transformation to Elmina & vice versa, Agaless, Cap'n Geist & Ceracenian. Agaless & Alhazad have also transparency problems with their black parts.
Even more worse than the enemies are the main characters and the NPCs. In this case, every single sprite is affected. I really don't want to spam my sheets with countless twin sprites just due to the colour gradient, but it feels kind of incomplete when I miss them.
My theory: The developers created different sets of high-colour-sprites which they wanted to use in different areas. Each of this sets had more than 256 colours, nevertheless they reduced them all to 8-bit.
Now we have dozens of different sets but with identical sprites and different colour gradients. Luckily, most of the enemies and bosses are uneffected cause they were stored in a different file. Exceptions are Alhazad, Lady Harken's transformation to Elmina & vice versa, Agaless, Cap'n Geist & Ceracenian. Agaless & Alhazad have also transparency problems with their black parts.
Even more worse than the enemies are the main characters and the NPCs. In this case, every single sprite is affected. I really don't want to spam my sheets with countless twin sprites just due to the colour gradient, but it feels kind of incomplete when I miss them.