Legend Of Mana: Assembled Bosses/Monsters Sprites

[rufaswan]

Recently, tombmonkey asked an interesting question - upscaling sprites to HD.

As mentioned by post #20, rotation produce jagged lines. It will look pretty bad if we upscale the assembled sprite to HD.

But if we upscale it before the assembling, those jagged lines would be less obvious as we'll have more pixels to work with.

As I am aware, upscaling is about repeating pixels. So I update my script to implement "SCALE". This is Jajara with SCALE=4



The file is "bon_bs00_img/0002.png". You can compare the quality if you upscale it 400%.

For the fun of it, this is Jajara in 4K (SCALE=20)
https://i.imgur.com/o4wfIx7.png

However, I'm not going to rerip everything this time. If you want the upscaled sprites, then you'll have to rip them yourself with the latest source code on my GitHub repo
https://github.com/rufaswan/Web2D_Games/...na_img.php

Edit line 5 on "psxtools/mana_ana_img.php" from

Code:

define("SCALE", 1);

to

Code:

define("SCALE", 5);

Replace 5 with any value you want.

NOTE : SCALE is about duplicating pixels, all fractions (1.5 , 2.25 , 3.667 ...) are invalid.

Then run this two commands

Code:

php.exe  psxtools/mana_ana_img.php  bon_bs00.img
php.exe  psxtools/clut2bmp.php  bon_bs00_img/*.rgba

The result is a bunch of BMP image. You can convert them to PNG as images, to DDS (DirectDraw Surface) to use on your game, or any other file format format you want. It's up to you.

All my scripts are written with minimalistic command-line version php.exe . No extensions required. So it should be able to run on all OS without any problem. But do let me know when you do.

Cheers,
- Rufas