Paraemon's Comprehensive Ripping Project Thread [Expansion Station]

[Paraemon]

Did I just solve Sonic CD's sixth Special Stage background?!

So I had this theory, that each line of pixels in the background are misaligned, and "creates" the illusion of movement. The actual truth is that it's on a cycling palette of sorts. While it remains to be determined that the broken up version is actually in some form of an upward or sideways motion (or both), it nevertheless remains fact that, based on how Frames 1 and 2 appear below, that instead of however many thousands of frames, it can be cut down to just a handful of frames based on the rotating palette. But for now, I don't think the "motion" is an actual thing.

It makes me wonder if this also applies to the first Special Sage, but I'll test that theory at a later point.



Edit:

So Frame 3 above is the same palette as Frame 2, but that's been fixed.

Here's what Frame 5 looks like before putting things in the right place.