08-25-2012, 12:09 AM
There is another way to dump entire game maps. As an example I will use Beyond the Beyond game. It stores game map at the end of RAM as a 128x128 array:
![[Image: Screen_Shot_2012_08_25_at_8_43_39.jpg]](http://s11.postimage.org/z0av6t2sf/Screen_Shot_2012_08_25_at_8_43_39.jpg)
Changing it's content automatically updates game screen, so we can use the following alghorithm:
1. determine the location of viewport
2. using a simple script, blit there a chunk from the other part of the map
3. save a screenshot
4. repeat to 2, until all chunks are saved.
5. use ImageMagick to combine all screenshots into one big image.
Changing it's content automatically updates game screen, so we can use the following alghorithm:
1. determine the location of viewport
2. using a simple script, blit there a chunk from the other part of the map
3. save a screenshot
4. repeat to 2, until all chunks are saved.
5. use ImageMagick to combine all screenshots into one big image.