| Abystus Member Level: 18 Posts: 12/60 EXP: 29536 For next: 361 Since: 04-03-11 Since last post: 6.0 years Last activity: 5.8 years |
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| I was wondering if anyone familiar with Rare's games might be able to suggest a program that would be able to get at the character sprites in the arcade image files for these games? I wrote my own program a while back (generic 555 565 image viewer) that was able to read such images as character select portraits, stages, etc.. but did not display character sprites, logo sprites, etc.... I am thinking they are possibly compressed (though it is odd because stages are not, and they are way bigger images than sprites), or encrypted some how to where they wont display under normal means. I have also tried saving dumps of memory running in MAME (hoping the images would be decompressed) to a binary file, and then loading that into my viewer. The result is basically the same as reading the file unfortunately, and the only extra images I found were from the frame buffer of the current and previous frame. I've been in search of the unused character "Vampire" for quite some time now (Chris Tilston says there are still sprites of him in the game), but so far my efforts at a sprite hack have been in vain. If anyone can suggest a tool, or possibly wants to take a look at the files themselves (they can be found all over the net "KI.img" [128 mb] & "KI2.img" [409.7 mb]) it would be appreciated. If interested in my program, you can find more info about it below: Killer Instinct Image View |







. I would assume if anything, it would be some higher bpp for drawing (check out the game for the quality of graphics (






