I recently noticed that in the beta version of The SpongeBob Movie (GBA), one of the bosses has a different appearance. I was able to get a ROM of this beta version, but the title screen won't load in Visual Boy Advance. It loads in No$GBA and I can get to the boss via passwords, but I am not sure how to actually rip the sprites. Some frames are obscured by foreground objects during the boss battle, and the player sprites also overlap the boss at times. I would like to get these beta boss sprites on the site but I'm just not sure how to go about doing that. Can someone help?
You can try to make a savestate on the final version and load it in the beta. Not sure if it will work but it is worth a try.
Make savestates in different places of the game, because some might not work.
Just tried that, it unfortunately would not load. Is there a way to record frame-by-frame on a different emulator such as Boycott Advance or No$GBA? The game loads fine in those.
Looks pretty good to me. The only thing I would suggest is to use a solid background instead of transparent, that's usually preferred unless the sprites have anti-aliasing. For this particular sheet I think a cyan background would work well.
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AWESOME WORK!
and hmm...
I think I like that beta thug a lot more, he actually LOOKS like a thug!