Trials of Mana / Seiken Densetsu 3 - Ripping all SNES Maps

[Dark_Ansem]

Done with Yoshi's Island, but I forgot how janky and laggy Starfox is. Not really interested anymore, despite the ripping process just being palette hunting through the game.

I'm starting tilesets now.

Fantastic news!

[Barack Obama]

Submitted the cave tilesets.

[Dark_Ansem]

Submitted the cave tilesets.

BSNES+ is as good as the others said then? For sprites it's amazing.

[Barack Obama]

I'm using an editor called Map Jester:
https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/986/
You can easily screenshot lower & upper layer of the tilesets and then put them on a sheet.

And to remove the checkered background of the tilesets, I'm using Recolor by Previous (former TSR staff member):
https://www.vg-resource.com/thread-38101...#pid673077
You bascially make two squares which match in size, one is the colour you want and the other square hosts the colours from the checkered bg. You mark them with two boxes and press a button to swap the colours, so the two-coloured bg becomes pink.

Btw, deserts & snow field tilesets have also been submitted.

[Dark_Ansem]

I know Map Jester, but god help me, it doesn't help at all for animated tiles.

[Dark_Ansem]

Btw, deserts & snow field tilesets have also been submitted.

I swear on my honour, I don't see them. Are they in plain sight and I'm being stupid?

[Barack Obama]

When you select tiles within Map Jester, a 16x16 area gets darkened. I accidentally did that with some of the tilesets and therefore had to delete and re-rip everything.

Good thing is that it's kinda easy and fast to pump sheets out. I will concentrate on the cave/mountain structures first, I also overlooked some of the variants on my first try which will now be added.

[Dark_Ansem]

When you select tiles within Map Jester, a 16x16 area gets darkened. I accidentally did that with some of the tilesets and therefore had to delete and re-rip everything.

Good thing is that it's kinda easy and fast to pump sheets out. I will concentrate on the cave/mountain structures first, I also overlooked some of the variants on my first try which will now be added.

Carthusian monk-like precision, I like.

[Barack Obama]

Mountain & Mountain Cave Tilesets
Desert, Snowfield & Beach Tilesets

are up. Cave Tilesets is submitted and should be accepted soon.

[Dark_Ansem]

Mountain & Mountain Cave Tilesets
Desert, Snowfield & Beach Tilesets

are up. Cave Tilesets is submitted and should be accepted soon.

That's great and they look lovely. No solution for animated tiles, however?

Loving the Glass Desert tile tbh.

[Barack Obama]

Animations are either loaded into the tileset per ingame code or they're just palette swaps, which also happen per code.
Since this is just a simple editor, I don't think there is a solution beside an extra sheet for the tile animations.

[Dark_Ansem]

Animations are either loaded into the tileset per ingame code or they're just palette swaps, which also happen per code.
Since this is just a simple editor, I don't think there is a solution beside an extra sheet for the tile animations.

I mean, that sounds like a good compromise. I'd be happy to do the extra sheet, if you don't want to. But I don't know how to see the animations in Map Jester, so this could be a bit long.

[Barack Obama]

Submitted
Forest, Cliff & Jungle Tilesets
Sanctuary of Mana Tilesets

Pretty sure this needs to happen ingame. I can take care of it, most of it is water anyway.
Tilesets come first, though.

[Dark_Ansem]

That's true, mostly water but some of the desert are present too, and thethe Mirage Palace or the gemstone valley with those gleaming gems...

[Barack Obama]

Submitted:
- Ruins (Exterior & Interior)
- Woods of Wandara
- Ship (Exterior & Interior)

Revised:
- Caves - added one more tileset
- Desert, Snowfield & Beach - erased a white line below one of the tilesets