08-13-2012, 05:11 PM
True yes but I always find you need pretty good knowledge of the game to work with tiles well (specially for palettes). With cheats it's pretty easy to plow through most games and I find it quicker to do it that way and then go into tiles to grab anything unused. Unless it's an RPG of course or something with a ridiculous amount of animation (like Metal Slug, which just isn't possible on the Genesis anyway), then tiles can be a life-saver of time.
Capturing can easily be seen as redundant for more modern consoles, and difficult with the SNES thanks to current (and more than likely last) emulators' poor options for sprite viewing but with the Genesis it's such a breeze it's definitely worth looking into. I'm not saying capturing is better than tiles, as it really isn't as tiles can just save so much time and produce a sheet vastly more quickly than capturing could ever hope to do in most cases.
But if the game is a platformer or shooter or other short game it's definitely worth checking out the capturing abilities of Gens K-Mod as they are truly exceptional (that Shadow Ape sheet I did for Pinnochio was done incredibly quickly). If however you have your heart set on tiles I always thought YY-CHR was pretty out-dated now, with many other programs being much easier to use (Tile-Molester etc.)
Capturing can easily be seen as redundant for more modern consoles, and difficult with the SNES thanks to current (and more than likely last) emulators' poor options for sprite viewing but with the Genesis it's such a breeze it's definitely worth looking into. I'm not saying capturing is better than tiles, as it really isn't as tiles can just save so much time and produce a sheet vastly more quickly than capturing could ever hope to do in most cases.
But if the game is a platformer or shooter or other short game it's definitely worth checking out the capturing abilities of Gens K-Mod as they are truly exceptional (that Shadow Ape sheet I did for Pinnochio was done incredibly quickly). If however you have your heart set on tiles I always thought YY-CHR was pretty out-dated now, with many other programs being much easier to use (Tile-Molester etc.)