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codeman38

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Viewing VT03 sprites
« on: August 15, 2011, 10:58:15 AM »
So, as y'all might have noticed, VT03 ROMs use a slightly non-standard format for their 4-bit-color sprites that none of the tile editors seem to be able to properly handle.

However, one nice thing about Tile Molester is that it's very easily extendable by design: it's possible to add new formats simply by editing a human-readable XML file.

So here's the trick:

In the directory where tm.jar is stored, you'll find a file "tmspec.xml". Edit that file in your choice of text editor (Notepad works fine). Above the line "</tileformats>", add the following lines:

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       <compositetile id="CP04" formats="PL00,PL00,PL00,PL00">
            <description>4bpp planar, composite (VT03)</description>
        </compositetile>

Now, when you next launch TM, you'll find that in the View → Codec menu, there's a new option "4bpp planar, composite (VT03)". Choose it, and voilà. Legible sprites!
« Last Edit: August 15, 2011, 11:09:43 AM by codeman38 »

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« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2011, 11:50:42 AM »
A bit of a typo in that explanation; that bit of text is supposed to under the </tileformats> text, not over it. Other than that, I'm rather impressed with this mode. :)

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« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2011, 04:27:04 PM »
nah it goes above it, I just did it myself.
But yeah awesome. :D I was thinking about the possibility of making something to view VT03 graphics, but it never occurred to me that it'd be that easy to just add it to Tile Molester lol.

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« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2011, 04:29:47 PM »
taizou
Aug 15 2011, 04:27:04 PM
nah it goes above it, I just did it myself.[/quote]Yeah, I misread the text. Then again, my reading skills are no better than my programming skills. :whistle:

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« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2011, 11:27:34 PM »
This may seem like a silly question.. But where can I find VT03 roms? :x Ive been really curious to see how these games play..

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« Reply #5 on: August 16, 2011, 06:00:11 AM »
There's a few of them on the DreamGEAR 75-in-1.