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How do I rip sprites from GBA games? - alphabetlorefan2003 - 08-09-2025

So uhh, I am basically trying to rip every sprite in WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!, but there's one problem: how can I rip the sprites? Now, I could just use VBA's OAM viewer but the thing is that I can't rip the sprites that aren't visible, and there are also unused stuff in some microgames (like Mountain Mountin' which has an unused walking animation) that I want to rip, which I can't with the viewer because well, those sprites are unused.

RE: How do I rip sprites from GBA games? - alphabetlorefan2003 - 08-09-2025

Addendum: when I used the OAM viewer now, the sprites are corrupted! Sad

RE: How do I rip sprites from GBA games? - Kramlack - 08-14-2025

Which version of Visual Boy Advance are you using? Is there a particular graphic that's appearing corrupted, or is it the OAM Viewer in general? For unused stuff, and assuming there's no graphic compression, you could use a program like YY-CHR and see what's in the ROM.

The OAM Viewer seems to work just fine on my copy of Visual Boy Advance 1.7.2

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EDIT: It just occurred to me that if you know the unused graphics are part of a certain micro game, you can likely find them already loaded into Visual Boy Advance's Tile Viewer.

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RE: How do I rip sprites from GBA games? - alphabetlorefan2003 - 08-15-2025

(08-14-2025, 08:34 AM)Kramlack Wrote: Which version of Visual Boy Advance are you using? Is there a particular graphic that's appearing corrupted, or is it the OAM Viewer in general? For unused stuff, and assuming there's no graphic compression, you could use a program like YY-CHR and see what's in the ROM.

The OAM Viewer seems to work just fine on my copy of Visual Boy Advance 1.7.2

[Image: 8cDp056.png]


EDIT: It just occurred to me that if you know the unused graphics are part of a certain micro game, you can likely find them already loaded into Visual Boy Advance's Tile Viewer.

[Image: tLtPXTJ.png]

It's the OAM viewer in general, as even the graphics in the menus are corrupted in the viewer. And also, I'm using the x64 version of V2.2.2 of VBA-M.
Here, let me take an example with Gold Digger, one of the simplest WarioWare microgames. When I use the OAM viewer, the sprites for the nose aren't even in the OAM viewer! (also, i use windows 11)[Image: Screenshot2025081515.png]