Tool: Nameless Sprite Editor 2.X

[patar4097]

Emerald came after Ruby and Sapphire, as well as Fire Red, so the information known about Fire Red/Ruby is about 1-2 years ahead of Emerald. Also, some hackers just prefer some games over others. That, and it's easier to focus your efforts on 1/2 of the 2 games released. It's more efficient.

And actually, it does support it (as it supports any GBA game). It just doesn't have any bookmarks for sprite data with it.

So, you can use it for Emerald. Well, do you know if it would work for me? I downloaded a patch that makes the sprites like in HG/SS. But they are smaller, so some look bad. Could I change them still? And could I edit the animation at all either?

 

[TheSnivyMaster]

Well, I'm having a bit of trouble. In my hack, I'm aiming to replace the backsprites of Red and Leaf with Brenden and Mays. However, the palette isn't importing. Could you help me?

Well, I'm having a bit of trouble. In my hack, I'm aiming to replace the backsprites of Red and Leaf with Brendan and Mays. However, the palette isn't importing. Could you help me?

 

[Aproydtix]

I tried to overwrite the image of Brendan, I had Advanced repointing, Safety repointing, Automatically fix pointers and Auto-abort if data is too big on. May's and Beauty's (Index 1 and 5) sprites are now not functioning in the game, they're completely removed from unLZ, however 4 and 5 are damaged when viewed in NSE. (As opposed to 1 and 5)
I'm incredibly angry right now, as I've done a lot of work, and forgot to make a backup. And I mean a lot, at least 3 full days.

Edit: I have a backup with the previous sprites though, if that can be of use.
Edit 2: May's sprite is invisible, Beauty crashes the game, and Hiker loads another sprite with lots of letters over it.

 

[Cobalon]

Ok, the program works perfectly, I just don't know how to "raise" a sprite. Like I want to copy+paste golem's gen 3 back sprite upwards so I can fill in the bottom and make it look nicer. Could someone help?

 

[jjwheeler2121]

Hey I've been using NSE 2.X recently and I came across a problem that I can't seem to figure out no matter where I search. I just got done editing Gary's/Rival's sprite but when I go to test it in the rom during gameplay his design is the same but the colors I put in is white instead of the green I selected in the NSE program. Can you help me out with this, I am working on a very important project.

 

[chaosakita]

This is such a great hack. I just wanted to say thanks to the OP for making this!

 

[ppvsonicspy]

I need help with a problem I have, you see I change backsprites, save everything even the pallet and everything is OK in NSE. But when I test it in game the pallet is wrong, it seems to me it is using the pallet of the sprites I added before. I go check it out in NSE again and it is using the right pallet, I don't know what to do please help!!!

 

[rune_reaper]

Whenever I try to change an image (both image and palette) only the new palette loads and the image stays the same. It reads the image, but won't overwrite it.

I really don't know what to do.

 

[hughrock]

can anybody tell me the palette offset for the PKMN status with all the types?

 

[lightfurret]

Bah... I'm probably too dumb to get it.
I made a Pokemon spirit from the scratch and tried to upload it, but it keeps changing colors although I used less then 16 colors. The background color also changes from green to dark red, although I used the background color of existent pokemon.
I tried to check how the program manages to work with a current pokemon and replace Ho-ho with Celebi, just for the kicks, and then it gave me an error, saying the file is too big...

 

[Orifiel]

Bah... I'm probably too dumb to get it.
I made a Pokemon spirit from the scratch and tried to upload it, but it keeps changing colors although I used less then 16 colors. The background color also changes from green to dark red, although I used the background color of existent pokemon.
I tried to check how the program manages to work with a current pokemon and replace Ho-ho with Celebi, just for the kicks, and then it gave me an error, saying the file is too big...

Actually first you import the sprite then save repoint then save.
Then import the color table (import the same sprite picture) then repoint then save.
ALSO your picture may not be indexed. You should know how to index a sprite.
that's why you're getting those errors you're talking about. Tajaros made a tutorial on the tutorial section.
From there, you should find it. It's really just the same procedure.

 

[Shiny Quagsire]

Actually first you import the sprite then save repoint then save.
Then import the color table (import the same sprite picture) then repoint then save.
ALSO your picture may not be indexed. You should know how to index a sprite.
that's why you're getting those errors you're talking about. Tajaros made a tutorial on the tutorial section.
From there, you should find it. It's really just the same procedure.

Just to expand on this, the reason it would error out if the file was "too big" is because indexed images take up a lot less space than non-indexed ones. This is because non-indexed ones require 4 bytes for each color (RGBA; sometimes only 3 bytes if just RGB), while indexed ones only take one (or less) bytes since you have each color stored once and then each pixel is a reference to which color it uses.

 

[lightfurret]

Just to expand on this, the reason it would error out if the file was "too big" is because indexed images take up a lot less space than non-indexed ones. This is because non-indexed ones require 4 bytes for each color (RGBA; sometimes only 3 bytes if just RGB), while indexed ones only take one (or less) bytes since you have each color stored once and then each pixel is a reference to which color it uses.

Thanks a bunch, both of you.
I'll try to do what you said and also check on the said tutorial.

 

[Door2Dawn]

Thank you for this tool. I've been customizing the sprites of some pokemon and the shiny forms because to be honest, they just don't match my preference or I feel like I could add something new to the game.

Okay I'm having a problem with it whenever I try to open it up, it says that Data is not Lz77 compressed.

 

[waZelda]

Can you edit sprite position with this? I'm having a big problem with a sprite I've edited that suddenly ends up way too low on screen (like it's standing below the grassy area).

 

[SidDays]

Thank you for this amazing tool :) I particularly love the 'switch color' feature, it's very useful for editing palettes, and much faster than the IrfanView method.

edit: I'm having slight problems, which are probably not because of the program, but still:
1. I'm trying to edit the Oak sprite in the Oak intro, I edited it to match a Slowbro with the exact same color table, but when I import it back in, the colors are all messed up.
2. In the navigation pane there is a bookmark for the text box frame. Since it's just a tile set, I figured changing the tiles while leaving their position intact should work for me but for some reason it messes the position of the textbox. Is there a better way to edit the text box?

Can you edit sprite position with this? I'm having a big problem with a sprite I've edited that suddenly ends up way too low on screen (like it's standing below the grassy area).

IIRC you can't, but you can use Wichu's Advanced Sprite Positioning Editor from his Advance Series Toolbox.

 

[Orifiel]

Thank you for this amazing tool :) I particularly love the 'switch color' feature, it's very useful for editing palettes, and much faster than the IrfanView method.

edit: I'm having slight problems, which are probably not because of the program, but still:
1. I'm trying to edit the Oak sprite in the Oak intro, I edited it to match a Slowbro with the exact same color table, but when I import it back in, the colors are all messed up.
2. In the navigation pane there is a bookmark for the text box frame. Since it's just a tile set, I figured changing the tiles while leaving their position intact should work for me but for some reason it messes the position of the textbox. Is there a better way to edit the text box?


IIRC you can't, but you can use Wichu's Advanced Sprite Positioning Editor from his Advance Series Toolbox.

1. You have to repoint the palette.
2. I don't understand.

 

[waZelda]

Thanks CelticGuard, though I'm having a lot of problems using the Advance series. Still, I found another way to solve my problem.

 

[Door2Dawn]

Okay for the people that have trouble accessing Nameless sprite editor, and are having the error Data is not Lz77 compressed, go to save palette to rom the next time you try to save.

 

[SidDays]

1. You have to repoint the palette.
2. I don't understand.

1. 
   
   So what I did was:
   1. Save the 256-color Oak Sprite using NSE 2.x
   2. Grab the palette of that screen using VBA, import it onto Oak in Photoshop
   3. Edit Oak into Slowbro, making sure I was using the exact same colors
   4. Replace the color table with the original B&W 256-color table
   5. Reimport into NSE. It did not require repointing as it was smaller.
   I don't know where I'm going wrong, it shows up as the wrong colors. :( Also I'm using CS5.
   
   
2. Basically I replaced my text box tileset with this:
   
   
   
   It has all tiles in the correct positions. What happened when I imported it into game was the textbox floated to the top-right corner of the screen (which makes no sense, since I figured if there was any error at all it'd show up as glitchy tiles). However it did require repointing for being too big.