Looking for some sprites (Another World, etc.)

[Ozwalled]

I was wondering if anyone might know offhand where I might be able to find some character sprites to study (in the form of sprite sheets or animated gifs or whatever), specifically from any of the following games:

-Another World (Out of this World)
-Heart of the Alien
-Flashback
-Prince of Persia (any of the old parts)
-Blackthorne

They're all so beautifully animated (at least, my memory seems to tell me that they were) that I felt they'd be pretty useful as a learning tool.

I've looked around a bit myself, but haven't had much success in finding anything. Any help would be appreciated.

[Ben]

Not sure about Blackthorne or Heart of the Alien (never played them), but the rest of those games use vector graphics, so there wouldn't be any sprite sheets to look at, at least not original ones. You could try taking a lot of screenshots, or get some software that records everything on screen as an AVI. The reason the animation is so smooth is that everything is moved on the fly (like a Flash movie) instead of fitting the animation into a few frames.

[Ciro Durán]

You may want to google for it searching by "Game Sprites", or you can reach directly Game Sprites Archive, which has sundry sprite animations of PC & console games.

[Ozwalled]

I realize what you're saying, Ben. I guess I was wondering, more than anything, if anyone knew of somewhere that someone has already done the screen captures (never thought of the video idea, though) and already made spite sheets with them. I'm willing to give it a shot myself, but thought that if the work's already been done somewhere else out there, that it'd be a bit of a time-waster.

Thanks, though.

And Ciro, I did try gooling it without much success ("I've looked around a bit myself, but haven't had much success in finding anything"). Thanks for trying, though. The other site may prove useful, but maybe not for these games in particular. Thanks.

[Ciro Durán]

Not sure about Blackthorne or Heart of the Alien (never played them), but the rest of those games use vector graphics, so there wouldn't be any sprite sheets to look at, at least not original ones. You could try taking a lot of screenshots, or get some software that records everything on screen as an AVI. The reason the animation is so smooth is that everything is moved on the fly (like a Flash movie) instead of fitting the animation into a few frames.

heh heh, forget about it, Ben, Flashback and Another World graphics were sprites!, the difference with other games released to the date were that they were created using Rotoscope, a catchy name for recording a human walk cycle and converting it to a drawing. And by the way, if you replay Flashback in these 60fps-or-more FPS days, you'll note Flashback runs quite slow (in 24fps to be precise).

[jfritzyb]

...I was wondering, more than anything, if anyone knew of somewhere that someone has already done the screen captures (never thought of the video idea, though) and already made spite sheets with them. I'm willing to give it a shot myself, but thought that if the work's already been done somewhere else out there, that it'd be a bit of a time-waster.

Lucky you ran into me...

Lol..sit down sir, because I'm about to tell the most interesting 5 minute story you've ever heard...

Here goes..

A few years ago, I wanted to start up a website that had almost every single screenshot of the game. Well...needless to say, only a few pics got posted and it was later that I found out that what I was doing was illegal. So, I closed my site down and named my folder with all the pics on it "ootw"...

I then took a blank CD and burned the whole folder onto it and deleted the file off my hard drive...and I think I still have that CD.

So...what I have is a CD with about...200+ pics of almost EVERY single move in Out of This World (and yes, I used an emulator, maximized the game screen, pressed the print screen button after three seconds passed with the character sprites in motion , paused the game, minimized it, open the picture program, pasted, saved the picture file, and repeated the process...

Needless to say, it took three weeks to a month or so before I had ALL the pics I wanted!

So...are you or anyone else interested in obtaining my marvelous folder "ootw" with about I THINK 300+ MB's worth of pictures from Another World?



--JJ

[Helm]

Ben is incorrect. Flashback and Prince of Persia have sprite graphics, based on rotoscoped animations, extensively reworked (in the case of flashback, at least) and you would do indeed well to study them. Out of this World is vector-based, yes, as is Heart of the Alien. Blackthorne is pixelled, and not based on rotoscoped anims, by the early Blizzard. It's very good to study on grounds of BADASS alone.

Other step platformers include a strange zorro dos game, Generations Lost, a bad genesis game and the Oddworld series.

[sergiocornaga]

You might be able to find something here.

[Animal556]

That was a great game: Out Of This World.Ã,  It is one I wish they would remake for the next gen systems-but it'll probably never see the light of day in the mainstream again.

I have a suggestion for you:

I know where to get all of those games, except for Black Throne.Ã,  You can get out of this world at [edit] http://anotherworld.fr/ and while you're there; you might also download ZSNES, you probably already know how to do this:

You can rip the graphics out of Flashback & OOTW frame-by-frame by pressing the F! key when the game starts, then you can skip to the frames you want and save the individual shot.

However, with some games, you can rip out the backgrounds or just the character sprites.Ã,  You do this by pressing #1-5 to get rid of the background layers.

This will not work in out of this world though because it's all on one big layer.Ã,  What I did was get the shots that I wanted and then I went into Game Maker 6 and edited the backgronds colours, so the colored square wouldn't show up around the character.

I'm not very good at drawing, but I can put together frame animations

To get Heart Of The Alien:
1. Google the site ********
2. Download a Sega CD emulator and then just download the rom, which is on that site as well

They also have the sega CD version of Flashback and numorous other roms.

I have a question: does anybody know how to get the sprites out of the old PC adventure games?Ã,  I can't figure out how to do it.


MrColossal Edit:
I edited out the links to warez sites as they are not allowed, thank you. Out of This World is also on sale again for like 7 bucks, support Eric Chahi and purchase it.

[lo_res_man]

depends on which ones you mean, for many lucas arts games, costume ripper works well, but it doesn't work on Secret of Monkey Island. there was a very unstable program, scumm-ripper or somthing like that for that. for sierra and other companys? printscreen and capture programs.

[Radiant]

Wow, way to resurrect a two-year-old thread

That was a great game: Out Of This World.  It is one I wish they would remake for the next gen systems-but it'll probably never see the light of day in the mainstream again.

There is a remake.

there was a very unstable program, scumm-ripper or somthing like that for that. for sierra and other companys? printscreen and capture programs.

I'm quite sure that scummripper doesn't rip Sierra games since they don't use SCUMM There's always AGI studio and SCI studio, that'd get you most of them. But frankly the Instagame pack would be a prettier solution.

[lo_res_man]

I never said it did, did I?

for sierra and other companys? printscreen and capture programs.

[Khris]

There is a remake.

If you're curious: It's called "Fade to Black" and it's fun. A 3rd-person 3D shooter/puzzle game with horrible camera/controls, but nice story and atmosphere from '95.

[Radiant]

There is a remake.

If you're curious: It's called "Fade to Black" and it's fun. A 3rd-person 3D shooter/puzzle game with horrible camera/controls, but nice story and atmosphere from '95.

No, there is an actual higher-res remake of Another World, which is still called Another World and is presently being sold. Personally I didn't find it all that impressive, but ymmv.

Fade to Black is the sequel (not remake) to Flashback, which really doesn't have anything to do with Another World at all but is called its sequel mostly because it was made by the same company.