Tombi 2 (Hope this is the right board)

[100 Year Old Man]

I need some help. Tombi 2 may be more 3D in comparison to the original Tombi, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a ton of sprites inside. I'm refering to items that you pick up such as health fruits, clay, mud, mud surprise, small fish, golden crabs etc. 

I'm trying to get a rip of the golden crabs (including all their animations) but not having much luck finding them. Does anyone have these already? If not, best method for ripping them from the original game disc? PSicture is great, but doesn't work on everything. Any tips or does anyone know where these have been already ripped?

Thanks in advance.
100 Year Old Man.

[puggsoy]

I don't have much experience with it but using PSX VRAM is a possible method. You will need to play the game and get a savestate from ePSXe at a point where the crabs are though. Also I can't guarantee it'll get everything, I remember trying to use this with Crash Bandicoot a while back without much luck (although this was a while ago and maybe I just wasn't very persistent).

In any case I wish you good luck. I'm a big fan of the original game and although I dislike the fact that it's 3D I should probably play the second sometime.

[Raccoon Sam]

quickly scoured through the ISO with 8bpp linear, couldn't see anything except a few interesting arrays
scanned with PSicture, found two images (both false positives)
ran the mounted folder through PSXPrev, nothing

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

you're probably better off trying with PSX-VRAM or something