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Just No Point

Re: A couple of MAME cheat files for sprite ripping.
#41  July 02, 2014, 11:40:43 pm
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@N.: If you're not still accepting requests that's fine.
I need to rip from Red Earth. Any cheats you think could help? Primarily removing back ground, removing bars, preventing screen scaling, and being able to select all the characters.

Removing background would be the best.
Thanks!

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Re: A couple of MAME cheat files for sprite ripping.
#42  August 28, 2014, 09:29:45 pm
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Bumping to mention that I've been periodically updating my post to add new cheats, and cheats geared towards stage ripping for the other games.  If any of the links are dead, let me know.

Also, I recently found a character test for Aliens Vs Predator and a secret test menu for Marvel Super Heroes, X-Men vs Street Fighter, Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter, and Marvel Vs Capcom.
Last Edit: August 29, 2014, 03:59:55 am by N.

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Re: A couple of MAME cheat files for sprite ripping.
#43  August 28, 2014, 09:36:28 pm
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How did you find the secret test menus in AvP and MSH? I'm interested to learn the method and see if I can find similar stuff in other games
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Re: A couple of MAME cheat files for sprite ripping.
#44  August 28, 2014, 09:57:51 pm
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In the Test Menu, I did an exact value search for 0002 at integer 2 bytes.  I then went into the Input test and filtered for 0004.  Sometimes I'd get 1 result, but if I didn't, I'd just go back to the Test Menu and either see if any of them changed back to 0002 or would send me to the Input Test when I changed them to 0004.  I learned this from observing how Abystus' cheats for X-Men: CotA and Street Fighter Alpha worked.

This next part is...kinda aimless and boring: I froze the value, then set it up in Artmoney so that anytime I loaded a savestate, I'd also be increasing it by 1.  This mostly worked as long as the value wasn't getting reset to 0002 (doesn't happen often, but enough that it can get annoying).  Try looking around 0000-00FF or 1000-2FFF first (for MSH, the value was 1294 and the value in my cheat file for AvP is 3192, but it turns out it was also at 11AB).
Last Edit: August 29, 2014, 04:00:47 am by N.

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Re: A couple of MAME cheat files for sprite ripping.
#45  August 29, 2014, 08:24:11 am
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What's the logic behind searching for 0002 and 0004? Why not 0008 or another value? In other words, how did you decide or assume to look for 0002/0004 in the test menu?
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Re: A couple of MAME cheat files for sprite ripping.
#46  August 29, 2014, 08:57:09 am
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Because of how bits work.

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Re: A couple of MAME cheat files for sprite ripping.
#47  August 29, 2014, 01:08:29 pm
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Great to see more of these character test menus. After I found out about the one in the CPS1 SF2s that was accessible by hardware dipswitches I was wondering if similar ones existed in other games. Thanks a lot for sharing these discoveries!

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Re: A couple of MAME cheat files for sprite ripping.
#48  August 29, 2014, 04:53:17 pm
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XGargoyle: It was something I noticed after 2nd or 3rd game used the same values.

Felineki: You're welcome.

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Re: A couple of MAME cheat files for sprite ripping.
#49  August 29, 2014, 06:49:23 pm
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I suppose that you entered the Test menu, searched for values, and then went to input test and filtered the addresses, with the objective of finding the exact address for each sub-tests, and with luck one of the values would open up a secret sub-test (in this case the character test), is this the process you did, right?

I did a similar thing in the past with Daraku Tenshi, but all I came up was being able to activate the debug test on the fly (no need to reboot and activate the debug sequence). I didn't follow your exact methodology, so it may be worth for me to try it once again if I unlock the hidden debug options.

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Re: A couple of MAME cheat files for sprite ripping.
#50  August 29, 2014, 07:15:54 pm
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Wow, awesome contribution!

I know Killer Instinct 1 was one of the first arcade games to come with its own hard drive.  Does that make it impossible (or at least different in an extremely annoying way) to get the sprites from?

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Re: A couple of MAME cheat files for sprite ripping.
#51  August 29, 2014, 11:35:05 pm
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XGargoyle:  That's right.

H Mr. Ton!:  I don't know, but I could check and see if I can find something.
Edit: I'll have to come back to this.

Edit:  Here's the Kawaks version of those cheats, so you don't have to search for color values:

Marvel Super Heroes (Euro 951024)
https://www.sendspace.com/file/rofzjo

X-Men vs Street Fighter (Euro 961004)
https://www.sendspace.com/file/uzt4nn

Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter (Euro 970625)
https://www.sendspace.com/file/kdsdhq

Marvel vs Capcom (Euro 980123)
https://www.sendspace.com/file/znfokx

Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (Euro 940705)
https://www.sendspace.com/file/rbkonp
This comes with position mods because I don't know how to slow down the cursor (I'll have to tweak this). :p

Night Warriors: Darkstalkers Revenge (Euro 950406)
https://www.sendspace.com/file/tno37d
This changes the Test Menu choices.  Input Test is the one you want to select.

X-Men: Children of The Atom (Euro 950105)
https://www.sendspace.com/file/m0p2hk

Street Fighter Alpha 2 (Euro 960229)
https://www.sendspace.com/file/la2i66
This won't work with the US Version

Ring of Destruction: Slammasters 2 (Euro 940902)
https://www.sendspace.com/file/gjr2rt

Aliens Vs Predator (Euro 940520)
https://www.sendspace.com/file/qyfes5

Updated Marvel Super Heroes and added X-Men: Children of the Atom, Aliens Vs Predator, Street Fighter Alpha 2, and Ring of Destruction: Slammasters 2.
Last Edit: September 10, 2014, 11:51:52 pm by N.

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Re: A couple of MAME cheat files for sprite ripping.
#52  August 30, 2014, 09:30:18 am
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Holy crap you found them for Darkstalkers and Night Warriors! I love you! :D

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#53  August 30, 2014, 11:41:24 am
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Oh GOD yes!
I've been meaning to rerip from the DS series. If this is as useful as it looks like it'll be I may rerip from each individual game! Does it even include all the character's effects files like projectiles and such in test mode?

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Re: A couple of MAME cheat files for sprite ripping.
#54  August 30, 2014, 12:27:52 pm
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Yes, although often without the correct palette.

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Re: A couple of MAME cheat files for sprite ripping.
#55  September 02, 2014, 04:41:48 am
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Ok, I updated the character test cheats to include some stuff to hide/reposition things, so you don't need to recolor everything.  Also, I added something to cycle through player/effect palettes in Darkstalkers and Night Warriors.

Edit: Hmm.......I should probably do this for the other games.
Last Edit: September 02, 2014, 04:55:24 am by N.

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Re: A couple of MAME cheat files for sprite ripping.
#56  September 02, 2014, 03:25:49 pm
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N. said, September 02, 2014, 04:41:48 am
Edit: Hmm.......I should probably do this for the other games.

That would be great!

This thread is super awesome, maybe this will help that more chars from lesser known games pop out for mugen :)


EDIT:
I've tryed to download the Dragoon Might Cheat files, they are offline :-[
look at my sprite rips  HERE
look at my Char WIPs HERE
look at my TMNT Project HERE
My Contribution to mugen: Stages: 268 | Chars: 8 | Fullgames: 1 | Spritesheets: 70
Last Edit: September 02, 2014, 04:34:11 pm by Cenobite 53

H Mr. Ton!

Re: A couple of MAME cheat files for sprite ripping.
#57  September 02, 2014, 07:23:10 pm
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N. said, August 29, 2014, 11:35:05 pm
H Mr. Ton!:  I don't know, but I could check and see if I can find something.
Edit: I'll have to come back to this.
These links might provide some helpful starting points?  Then again they might be completely useless, I have no idea when it comes to this kind of thing.  The first one comes from a conversation on this forum from 9 years ago about ripping KI sprites from mame, and looks to be the most promising.   

http://www.angelfire.com/art2/bloodstorm0/blog/

http://www.mamecheat.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3249
http://www.mamecheat.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2422
http://www.mamecheat.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6169

N.

Re: A couple of MAME cheat files for sprite ripping.
#58  September 03, 2014, 01:00:57 am
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H Mr. Ton!:  Sorry.  I haven't looked into it because I haven't been able to get Killer Instinct to work on mame-rr (I use it for the RAM search).  I'd like to see if I can find cheats for it, but right now I don't think I can be of much help to you. ):

Cenobite 53: Reuploaded.  I'll fix the other ones. They're fixed.
Last Edit: September 03, 2014, 03:10:18 am by N.

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Re: A couple of MAME cheat files for sprite ripping.
#59  September 03, 2014, 05:17:24 am
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Hey, N. is it possible that you could make a cheat for stage ripping from Spectral vs. Generation? I've seen a bit of the stages from a couple of videos and i got interested in them considering the fact only one stage from it exists in MUGEN.

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Re: A couple of MAME cheat files for sprite ripping.
#60  September 03, 2014, 08:10:09 am
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I wasn't able to find a version that worked for mame-rr, unfortunately.
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