rip sprites

[AndromedaMan]

Can someone tell me how do I rip sprites?

[Doogles]

Startup your emulator of choice, run the game, remove the backgrounds(the controls for this are different for different emulators, I'm sure), stop the game(using the emulator's pause function, not the game's), screen shot the first frame of the animation, press the next frame button, repeat.

[AndromedaMan]

There isn't a program that do it?

[Mikado]

There was an program to read the tiles, but I do not know what program it was..

[Doogles]

I guess I do it the hard way. Oh well.

[Rainbow Dash]

No, alot of games compress it when it's not onscreen, so tile readers are useless.

My ripping program is the Print Screen key.

Can we sticky this so people stop asking?

[mega rock.exe]

If you anyone needs help ripping from VBA, visit my website and look under tutorials. It should help a lot.

[Rainbow Dash]

For VBA, I just record an uncompressed AVI movie with only the layers I want, do the poses I want, open it up in Windows Media Player, and play it frame by frame.

[mega rock.exe]

I don't know how you do that. The AVI file would probably take up Gigabytes. The sprite may get messed up somehow. I prefer the old fashoined way.

[kingofanime]

I think the easiest way is using AnimGet while removing all unwanted layers and movingthe character around and such. This works excellent with almost any emulator that has layer removal. I wish there was a PSX emulator that supported layer removal. >_>

[mega rock.exe]

I use AnimGet sometimes. It helps even though I already have a shortcut key for Screenshot in VBA. I made it Ctrl+Shift+A.

[Barubary]

I don't know how you do that. The AVI file would probably take up Gigabytes. The sprite may get messed up somehow. I prefer the old fashoined way.
Tools->record->start AVI secording->name the file->select Xvid MPEG-4 codec->ok->you are now recording
(to stop recording; tools->record->stop AVI recording)

1 min ~ 10 MB

I still only use the screenshot+next frame and the map/OAM-viewer+next frame though, and very rarely AnimGet when the fading per frame is hardly noticable.