Astonishia Story (PSP) - How to get the graphics?

[Davy Jones]

Ugh, this was unconvenient.

I use PPSSPP's GE debugger and SnagIt 8.0 to screenshot maps from where my main character stands. Now I noticed that the emulator has apparently performance issues even in small rooms after comparing two screenshots. These issues produce multiple vertical ripple lines which swallow some pixels on their path and go straight through the whole screenshot. What I did now was changing back to the normal Windows version (32-Bit), using the fastest render mode (unpuffered) and changing the window size from 2x to 1x. Now the screenshots are all okay again, but I will definitely check my existing rips if something's not right. Fortunately, I made all map sheets in a 8x8 grid for quick comparisons.

Also tried a new method on how to beat this annoying alpha transparency + the black background colour on the tilesets as fast as possible:

First steps
1. Download & install PhotoFiltre, a freeware-graphics program.
2. Open the tileset.
3. First task bar - Layer - Transparency - Edit Alpha Channel

Working on the image "Background (Mask)"
4. Now you have a separate picture which is called "Background (Mask)" and consists of the colours grey and black.
5. First task bar - Adjust - Replace colour - Put the tolerance on 0 and replace the black colour with another one, like pink or green.
6. Click on the multi-coloured box in the 2nd task bar (Indexed colours) -> 256 colours.
7. First task bar - Image - Transparent colour - choose the grey as transparency colour

Working on the tileset
8. First task bar - Layer - Transparency - Disable Alpha Channel
9. Now you mark the whole "Background (Mask)" image, copy or cut it and past it on the tileset

Congratulations, the tileset is complete. Why I did all this: Some parts of the tilesets have black outlines, if you just disable alpha transparency and change the black background colour into pink, you literally "kill" the tiles because a part of them vanishes into the said pink.


Note: If you open PhotoFiltre for the first time, two things are extremely annoying and can be deactivated like this:
* First task bar - View - LayerTumbnail - Hide
* First task bar - Tools - Image Explorer