Archives for November 2003
ROM hacking totally fails to evolve
29 November 2003 | FEIDIAN | No Responses
I hate how much of a pain using any tile editor is. But more than poor function, I hate how none let me edit anything but 8×8 tiles.
I haven’t seen an 8×8 only game since the NES days, and visualizing an 8×16 or 16×16 sprawled across many tiles is too complicated for my weak mind to handle.
As a solution, I have infected my computer with SARS.
SARS is nice, because unlike every other tool I’ve seen, it allows me to painlessly rip. The can be edited in Photoshop, then injected back into the game. The tarball includes a samples.txt, which has some command strings to dump the fonts from the FM-TOWNS and 68k BIOS files, Heroine Anthem and some other junk.
I really don’t care if you use it or not, but don’t email me about it. I may or may not add 2 and 4 bitplane support in the future–it depends on if I work on something that requires it.