ROM Hack Pokémon D/P Pokémon sprites

[Zyenet]

I think I've located the location of all the Pokémon sprites in D/P, but whenever I load the graphic files with Tahaxan, I get something like this:

The location I'm looking in the Rom is poketool/pokegra/pokegra.narc

If I'm in the wrong location, tell me, and give me the right location.

 

[Noitora]

use crystaltile, extract files from the narc, download gbadecmp uncompress the files using lz77 and then view them with whatever program you want.

 

[Zyenet]

Got GBADecmp. Won't run on Vista, and when I run it on XP, it crashes when I hit the go button. Any ideas? Like, a better lz77 decompression program?

 

[Noitora]

Got GBADecmp. Won't run on Vista, and when I run it on XP, it crashes when I hit the go button. Any ideas? Like, a better lz77 decompression program?

works just fine on my vista computah...there's another one Nintenlord's LZ77 compressor if I remember correctly.

 

[psycoblaster]

prob because you didn't download the latest .net framework ? o.O

 

[Normmatt]

GBADecmp doesnt use .net at all, NLZ77 does however.

 

[Zyenet]

I've got Nintenlord's lz77 decompression tool, but no clue how to use it. It gives me an error saying the file is larger than the offset, sometimes it says it needs a different offset, etc. I hate Nintendo for changing the compression from D/P and Platinum, since I've got PokeDsPic displaying D/P sprites, but Platinum ones don't work.

Help?

 

[D-Trogh]

Just use PokeDSPic

Download it here..

 

[Zyenet]

That, as I stated above, only works for D/P sprites. Platinum sprites are compressed differently, so PokeDsPic needs an update. (lz77 compressed, I think)

 

[Rykin]

When you extract the files with crystalite2, it should give you an option to uncompress them there.

From there, load up your favorite tile editor.

 

[Zyenet]

I did the lz77 decompress in CrystalTile2, but neither PokeDsPic, nor Tahaxan, can view the sprites. It just returns garbage.

 

[hrc969]

Hi, you can modify DS PokePic to view the sprites in platinum. Just two numbers change and everything else is the same.

Now I am having trouble with something else, when I use DS PokePic to view otherpoke.narc, the sprites show up without color. What can I do to fix this?
Note: This happens when viewing the DP otherpoke.narc with the unmodified DS Pokepic and when viewing the Platinum otherpoke.narc with the modified DS Pokepic
EDIT: There are two ways to to edit the program to show the platinum sprites:

1) One is to make the PRNG run backwards to how it was run for DP.

2)Make the seed for the PRNG start at the zeroth element of the array rather than at the last one, then run the loop backwards from the way it is run.

 

[Zyenet]

Can you send me a modified copy of PokeDsPic? I've got no clue how to do what you said.

 

[hrc969]

Can you send me a modified copy of PokeDsPic? I've got no clue how to do what you said.

OK, I emailed you a link.

Also I figured out how to view the otherpoke sprites. Thanks anyway.

 

[rastsan]

sorry to bump such an old topic but gbadecmp can now work on vista windows 7 just follow the instructions here...
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums...09-480e265dacf2