In short, swizzling is about optimizing for GPU. I finally understand why PS2 image/texture is arranged in such a weird way - texture swizzling. It's time for another update! How are you guys doing? I'll post updates here when I made any progress. In the end, there are still more work need to be done, more stuff need to be learned. It is pretty amazing Raccoon Sam can decode these kind of data merely by just closely examine them. It is so weird I'm having problem in decoding them. I can guess where everything is pretty easily.īUT the image/texture data is arranged in a very weird way. The data format is very similar to Muramasa. Is there a way to get a raw, unscaled and unfiltered screenshot?īoth game uses the same file format, so I'll group them together. I can't examine the image pixel-by-pixel to figure out the blending formula.įor comparison, this is the screenshot and the sprite. The screenshots I get from Dolphin is anti-aliased. Like Pricess Crown, the emulator is not helping either. Some sprites, like save portal, is in grayscale. On PlayStation, it is by additive blending.īut now I also have white color masks used for shadow!

If Princess Crown has palette problems, then Muramasa is blending problems.įrom my previous note on Legend of Mana thread, that black part is a mask for semi-transparency. I doesn't understand why it refuse to work now. It refuse to break on memory address or on instruction. It's pretty much about digging data from the assembly code now.Īnd yabause is acting up on me. There are 5 books on the floor, and the book's palette is determined by which book you give her. The sprites are able to reassemble correctly, but the big problem is with its palette. There are a lot more of these kind of sprites, especially on opening/ending related. Notice her sprites was 'squeezed' during landing. Ripping sprite like this also reveal some 'effect' sprites you couldn't get by assembling by hand using VRAM. The final sprite is slightly blurred to appear smoother on screen.Īll my sprites are ripped without anti-aliasing. It creates jagged lines when reassembled.Īs noted by Dazz, some console (like Wii) has anti-aliasing. Just like rotation, it is a lossy process. Quad-rendering - as in rendering a rectangle, is where the game data gives you only the 4 coordinates, and expect you to flip/scale/rotate the sprite parts accordingly, like this: Let's talk about the sprites in these games, and also a bit about quad-rendering. Progress : up to WebGL, blend/antialias problem In this year, I want to completely rip sprites from Vanillaware. Happy New Year 2021! How are you guys? Made any new year resolution yet?

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