Random Talking Bush's Sprite Showoff

[Random Talking Bush]

Know what I just said in my previous post about "spontaneous ripping projects"? It happened again! Story time, grab a seat -- back in 2007 I helped Ragey out a bit with ripping from a game called Bomberman Party Edition. Fifteen years ago... I think I aged that much just thinking about it. But yeah, the playable character sprites were a pain and a half to extract because of there being about 100 sprites per character, 6 colours per character and 15 characters total, all with variable widths in the sprite files (in other words, adjust width, copy sprite, adjust width for next sprite, copy sprite, ad infinitum). So that would be over nine thousand sprites (I can hear the meme in the distance) that would need to be manually ripped overall.

So that never ended up getting done! And I certainly don't blame Ragey or I for giving up on those way back when. The Spriters Resource only had two or three colours out of the six per playable character for the longest time, and after chatting with Garamonde about my future projects about three weeks ago, Bomberman Party Edition came up as a potential choice for the "might-as-well-be-next-Spring-Cleaning project" of mine that I keep bringing up (in short, finally dusting off old projects), and using my newfound knowledge of extracting stuff, I decided to finish what Ragey and I started and I wrote a sprite extraction tool for it just so I could get the rest of the playable characters done once and for bien.

Bomberman Party Edition:

Barbarian Bomber / Bomber Uhho

Bazooka Bomber

Bomber Chen / Bomber Chun

Bomber the Kid

Bomberman

Cossack Bomber / Bomber Cossack

Great Bomber

Hammer Bomber

Honey

Jet Bomber

Kotetsu

Lady Bomber

Mexican Bomber

Pretty Bomber

Punk Bomber / Metal Bomber

Enemies

Normal Game Cutscenes / Game Over

Normal Game (Retro)

Stages (Normal Game)

Coney, Dox, Drakko, Pytera and Simeon

Louies

Stages (Battle Game, Beginner)

Stages (Battle Game, Normal)

Stages (Battle Game, Advanced)

Stage Select Previews

Hyper Bomber Mini-Game

Victory Celebration / Draw Game

Character Icons

Company Logos

Menus

Miscellaneous

Title Screen

...Call it a hunch, but I think I ended up getting more than just the playable characters finished up.