Hi All,
I have seen movies on youtube and other places on the web that have nintendo sprites in them. For example, there is a movie on youtube about Mike Tyson's Punchout and how Mac is training for a comeback. It pretty funny. Anyway, in this movie, there are numerous sprites from the game that were all over the movie.
Now, I have not problems with the movie portion of it, but I am not sure how to get these sprites from the game. I can easily open the game in an emulator, take screen shots and cut the graphics out, but I bet there is a better way to do this.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks
You can use graphic editors like Tile Layer, Tile Molester or YY-CHR to show the graphics of most games, but often they appear in a gambled and unpratical order (the programmers did sqeeze the data in ROM to be efficient, not to be practical to use), so you have to re-arrange them by hand which can proof to be hard/annoying.
You can use Nintendulator to individually turn on/off BG or Sprite layer (I guess Nesticle also does that, but it can only disable BG).
I downloaded Nintendulator and have been playing wth it. I am unsure how to turn the background layer off. I'm not one of those people that won't read the manual, but there is none with the app.
I can do some work in hex and what not, but I am unfamiliar with the 6502 programming. So if the solution involves too much hex, than I am out of this ball game.
Thanks again!
VisualBoyAdvance + PocketNES is probably your best bet for turning the background and sprite layers off as well as stepping through an animation frame by frame.
Cool, I'll give it a try!
Most people just steal animated gifs from another website.
Ha! Yeah, steeling stuff was never my thing. I got vba and poketnes. vba doesnt open nes roms as far as I can see. but I can take out the background layers very nice!
I tihnk I'll download various nes emulators and see if I can find any that drop the background.
pocketnes is an NES emulator designed to run on the GBA use them together and you get......
tepples wrote:
VisualBoyAdvance + PocketNES is probably your best bet for turning the background and sprite layers off as well as stepping through an animation frame by frame.
To get distortionned graphics ? No thanks.
(yes distortion is optionnal but enabled by default).
I think not all version of Nintendulator does that, the "Extended Debug" version does.
Well I got vba and pocketnes to workin conjunction with each other. It is pretty distorted as Bregalad said.
I just looked at the movie that really got me interested in this:
http://www.jibjab.com/view/160204
Funny stuff! I'll keep pluggin away...
Uh,
what? VBA + PocketNES? That's a very silly way to rip NES graphics.
Just get
FCEUX. It has all the features you're looking for and then some.
Fx3 wrote:
You are a sad, strange little man.
Hey now, NESticle may be inaccurate but you can't beat it's simple features. Almost every screenshot in my NSF Player was taken in NESticle. Looked pretty decent with this palette made by someone known as BMF, I wonder who that was.
Memblers wrote:
Looked pretty decent with this palette made by someone known as BMF, I wonder who that was.
Heh! I didn't even know. I'm glad it worked for you.
The only remaining features of NESticle I wouldn't mind seeing integrated into a modern emulator are its real-time tile editor and timing options (particularly CPU speed). The former is mind-blowingly innovative, but unfortunately is also responsible for the vast majority of terrible graphics hacks clogging up the GoodNES set...
Awsome! The FCEux did it! Wow, this little monster is a pretty nice emulator. When I record straight to avi I get a good portion of stuttering within the video, but really, I'm not too concerned.
Saving files to .fm2 and .fcm i a text format work well and keeps file size very small.
Thanks again Folks!