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Using VBA to rip sprites
« on: July 27, 2008, 11:51:52 pm »
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Yesterday, I began playing around with the source code to VBA, and it got me thinking about how cool it would be if I could modify it to allow us to rip sprites more effectively.  Thoughts?
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Re: Using VBA to rip sprites
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2008, 12:17:16 am »
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Do it, it's annoying to have to manually save each sprite from their viewer :(
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« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2008, 06:42:13 am »
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Quote from: Mamoruanime on July 28, 2008, 12:17:16 am
Do it, it's annoying to have to manually save each sprite from their viewer :(
haven't you used animget? It's still really slow though.
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Re: Using VBA to rip sprites
« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2008, 03:24:59 pm »
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Here's a couple of screenshots, the red boxes indicate actual sprites as they are stored in the oam to which you might know stores it in bits and pieces, to remedy this I've added in some additional code that basically attempts to guess what sprites belong to what which in these screenshots is represented by a green border.
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« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2008, 03:43:51 pm »
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Nice work. Keep it up :D.
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Re: Using VBA to rip sprites
« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2008, 06:16:59 pm »
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You should submit this to the team that's working on VBA-M, since VBA is discontinued.
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Re: Using VBA to rip sprites
« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2008, 09:41:20 pm »
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So let me get the stright.
You are working on the VBA so you can get sprites much more easy ?
Well... I haven't sprited in the VBA in like 3 months because it was really anoying...
So keep it up bro !!!!!
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« Reply #7 on: July 28, 2008, 10:24:13 pm »
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Good idea and nice work so far. I'm looking forward to it, keep this up.
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Re: Using VBA to rip sprites
« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2008, 02:04:15 pm »
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I now have it in a state where I can rip stuff.

To me however, that isn't good enough yet, as you end up with about 400 different sprites in no real order, plus none of it is aligned.
So I'm going to continue to work on it.
The next step will be to implement a method to tracker these sprite clusters and also to find a way to identify an track animations.
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« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2008, 07:30:01 pm »
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That's judt one ?
So how many can u take ?
Is this going to be like animget ?
but it will only be to the figure you want ?  :huh:
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« Reply #10 on: July 29, 2008, 11:40:45 pm »
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You should ask at tasvideos.org. Many members have knowledge of programming and the source code of various emulators. Some have also contributed to and/or made their own emulators.
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« Reply #11 on: August 03, 2008, 07:05:50 am »
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(The animation may look a little bad, but that's more due to the program I used to create the animation)

Just a little update, I got the sprite tracking to work (albeit it's a little shitty), but as you can see in that top sprite I still have to work on aligning it properly as well as recording animations (I had to do a bit of searching for this one so I could grab it properly).
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:D Coming along quite nicely WWFan :D
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« Reply #13 on: August 10, 2008, 06:45:37 am »
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ok, another screenshot (if you could call it that)

It now aligns each animation perfectly.. if the object is not moving :P
Otherwise it'll end up doing this, which is unfortunate :(


(Again, ignore the fact that my animation program has screwed it up.)
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Re: Using VBA to rip sprites
« Reply #14 on: August 10, 2008, 06:51:03 am »
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great job :D
Now if only you could do this with desmume...
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Re: Using VBA to rip sprites
« Reply #15 on: August 10, 2008, 07:31:41 am »
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DS Emulation is most likely too slow for this sort of thing.  This is actually a highly intensive process, it could be done in the future, but most likely not by me.
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« Reply #16 on: August 10, 2008, 07:37:46 am »
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was that ripped? If so, GOOD JOB!
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Re: Using VBA to rip sprites
« Reply #17 on: August 10, 2008, 07:50:10 am »
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yeah, I can pretty much rip what I like now.. as long as it's not moving :P
It still requires work though, as you still need to find the animation amongst all those frames, but once you've done that you're all set.



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« Reply #18 on: August 12, 2008, 08:05:26 am »
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I've uploaded my present copy on to the site, which includes all I've done up until now, there appear to be a few differences when running it stand alone, but they don't appear to affect the functionality of the tool.

Nobody seems seen it on the site yet, so I'm just posting this as to let everyone know.


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Holy crap awesome dude, I'm going to download this right now <3
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