VGMaps
General Boards => Map Gab => Topic started by: Maxim on March 02, 2008, 01:48:17 pm
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http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=10063
http://soniccenter.org/rolken/stt/
Maps ripped from the ROM using a PHP script. So clever it hurts.
Someone should ask the guy for permission to host the maps here. Missing enemies, though...
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I can't help but be amazed every time someone manages to rip maps through programming alone. All that stuff about tiles, bit masks, address blocks, map compression makes my head spin :o
I just find it a bit disappointing when the ripper stops after that instead of polishing the map by adding the more important sprites to get a better-looking finished product. You just can't get everything through coding alone most of the time.
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It looks like he's still working on it. There are ID numbers on the maps where the enemy sprites go, for example.
The technical details are a bit heavy, but so long as you can learn a bit of assembly code (and Z80 is pretty basic) unravelling the compression can be pretty easy, just time-consuming. I find it more fun just to map the "old-fashioned" way a lot of the time, although being able to hack can help a lot.
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Awesome. Thanks for the link Maxim.