18 September 2017, 16:40 | #1 |
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Trying to rip Double Dragon backgrounds
Hi all,
I quite fancy having a go at doing a port of Double Dragon. Just as a hobby and to try and improve my coding skills. The original Amiga game was a bit of a disaster, but I always thought the backgrounds were ok so I would like to use them but I can't seem to make it work in Maptapper. I found a few sprites but nothing which resembles backgrounds and I can't get the palette right no matter what. I followed the tutorial videos but it's not working. This isn't a request for the BGs, I'll happily do all the work, but I need a guidance on how to use Maptapper effectively as I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. I took a save state of when I was on the first level of the game and am using that but I'm not sure if that's correct. Any help would be great. Thanks! |
18 September 2017, 17:54 | #2 |
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1 - Rip the tiles.
2 - Lasso a chunk of tiles for map search. 3 - Plug results into map ripper tab then adjust height and position. |
18 September 2017, 18:53 | #3 |
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Thanks for the reply.
Ok I got the tiles and saved them but when I search the image I save it keeps saying: "Unmatched tiles, cannot continue" The image is at the right scale, so I must be doing something else wrong. |
18 September 2017, 19:14 | #4 |
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It worked first time for me. Anyway if you can't coax it to work there are already maps on HOL. Divide the picture width and height by 16 to tell what goes in the map ripper tab. The next maps will likely stay near the current address.
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18 September 2017, 19:32 | #5 |
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Boys, i have the tiles with the correct colors from the arcade machine.
I'm sure it will help, but just remind that the arcade machine display 256 colors for the background and 128 colors for the possible sprites on screen. As soon as i get my PC again online (it anormaly heats up and shut down), i'll post here the arcade tiles |
18 September 2017, 19:50 | #6 |
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Oh cool, I didn't realise someone had already ripped the maps.
Are there versions without the HOL watermark though? All the files in the download zip have them embedded. |
18 September 2017, 21:45 | #7 |
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19 September 2017, 14:53 | #8 |
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Gibs was working on an amigs double dragon update. But nothing had surfaced.
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19 September 2017, 22:01 | #9 |
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My PC is up and running again
So here are the double dragon arcade tiles full colors ! Last edited by dlfrsilver; 31 August 2021 at 22:46. |
19 September 2017, 22:05 | #10 |
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the tile backgrounds now
Last edited by dlfrsilver; 31 August 2021 at 22:46. |
25 September 2017, 10:25 | #11 |
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dlfsilver - Got them now mate. Thanks for that!
Ransom1122 - Yeah I came across those videos a while ago before I even thought about doing this port. I'm not sure if his project is still gong or if it ran out of steam, but hey, two different ports of the same game is better than one shitty one. |
25 September 2017, 11:31 | #12 |
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There's almost literally thousands of unofficial OpenBOR Double Dragon games out there so I don't think whoever holds the rights to it will bother about a homebrew port on a 30 year old machine. |
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25 September 2017, 17:45 | #14 |
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dlfrsilver,that's awesome thanks for that.
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25 September 2017, 20:41 | #15 |
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26 September 2017, 21:40 | #16 |
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I really appreciate it.
Did you say you had the sprites too? I can't find any sprite sheets for any of the baddies anywhere so that so that would be great if you have them. Ripping sprites from MAME isn't my forte at all. It took me two hours to get two frames from Double Dragon II yesterday haha. |
27 September 2017, 11:36 | #17 |
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27 September 2017, 11:38 | #18 |
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