Acmlm's Board - I2 Archive - Rom Hacking - Tile Layer
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Chickenlump
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It can view and allow you to edit the graphics of ROMS for many systems.
This allows you to edit and change the graphics to anything you want.
Change Mario into a Koopa Troopa, edit Mario to be bald-headed with 3 eyes and a peg leg. Take graphics from other games and put them into the game you want to change, or draw your own graphics and have the game be in your own art-style.
Graphics hacking can be very easy.
The graphics won't show up in their normal colors, the correct colors for the graphics are applied to them when the game loads. They are called Palettes, and all the graphics have palettes applied to them, and some share the same palette (to save space). But you can load them up inside the tile editors, so you can see the graphics your editing in the correct colors.
I made a small example page on that right here:
http://www.angelfire.com/in3/chickenlump/yy.html
I made that page to help someone else starting out who wanted to edit some Zelda graphics.
Not all graphics are going to be visible for all games. Some games have their graphics compressed, sort of like the graphics are inside a zip file inside the rom. Most of the popular games have utilities that can decompress the graphics so they can be edited, and recompressed and put back in. It sounds harder than it actually is.
Start off simple, then work your way up. And try multiple Tile Editors, some are better than others.
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Parasyte
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To edit graphics (tiles) in a ROM, perhaps? |
Dylan
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I am simply wondering what the purpose of TL/TLP is. I have a vague understanding, but it would be nice to have a clear explanation. |
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hukka
