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Hey guys. I’ve been working on this sprite editor for MOTHER 3 for some time now. I wasn’t gonna release it until I finished the editing tools and basic stuff like copy/paste, but I still have to test it for bugs, so I figured ‘what the hey, let the community test it!’.

Attached is the 0.1 alpha version of the program. Go ahead and test it out, try to break it, etc. If you find anything that doesn’t work right then post about it here. Also, back up your ROM before using this!

The first thing you should notice is that each “sprite” is actually a group of ‘sub-sprites’. For example, Flint has a head sub-sprite and a body sub-sprite. They have to be edited and rendered separately. There are also four banks of sprites, each with 1000 sprite entries. Not all of them have usable data, but a lot of them do, and there are something like 25,000 sprites total. Ack.

Note that the names aren’t all accurate. Fixing the name list is something I’ll get around to, but if someone else wants to go ahead and name them, be my guest! I’ll upload the list of names for anyone who wants to edit it.

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Features:

• Pencil tool, bucket tool, eyedropper tool, and eraser tool
• Can select both a primary and secondary colour at the same time (similar to MSPaint)
• Can flip sub-sprites horizontally and vertically
• Supports 1x – 16x zoom
• Can edit some sub-sprite properties, such as relative position
• Can save sprites and sub-sprites as PNG files, as well as copy them to the clipboard
• Can generate full spritesheets (see the other attached picture :D)
• Can actually edit sprites

Future plans:

• More editing tools, such as selection, lines, ellipses, rectangles, etc.
• Copy/paste
• Undo
• Palette editing
• You think of stuff and post here

EDIT: Oh yeah, you’ll need the .NET framework. Version 3.5, probably.

Very nice.

BTW, I’m pretty sure this only really depends on .NET 2.0. It worked fine for me when I tried running it under the Mono framework, anyway. That also means you should be able to run it on non-Windows operating systems as well.

I LOVE IT I CAN RIP NOW!

Dang .Net frameworks!!!

Using a Mac makes me sad in times like this.

I’ve tried, but it requires the windows .net frameworks, which I can’t install.

It’s great but it could use work, I have very minor gripes about it, The frames are too small, so they need to be taller so we can see the whole sprite that we’re editing, also some sprites are missing from each set.

Those aside, this is amazing!

I don’t see why you’d need Darwine or anything like that. The Mono Framework (which I mentioned earlier in the thread) is quite capable of running .NET binaries compiled for Windows all on its own. On Linux anyway, all you’d need to do is run “mono MOTHER3SpriteEditor.exe” and it should work like a charm; I don’t see why it would be any harder on a Mac.

Mono doesn’t contain the .NET framework. Mono is the .NET framework, or rather an open-source cross-platform implementation of it. If you have Mono, you don’t need the .NET framework, unless you’re running an application that depends on newer features that have not been implemented in Mono yet. The Mother 3 sprite editor works fine in Mono, though; I just tried it.

I tried it with mono as well works better then in darwine although you have to go through the terminal to run it.

Chimera: The main window is resizable; you can zoom out; and scrollbars appear if the sprite is bigger than the frame. If you can’t find a sprite you’re looking for, check the other three banks by selecting Bank 1, Bank 2, or Bank 3 at the top-right. A lot of the custom sprite animations are in those three rather than in Bank 0; for example, Flint going nuts with the lumber, and the hidden Kumatora/Duster sparkly sprites are in separate banks from their corresponding entries in Bank 0.

now all we need is a text editor to go with it….

let’s make lucas bald, and look in the mirror:

“bald, as always.”

and make yokuba say something different to wess:

“don’t grow hair on your way home!”

ahh… i can’t wait for this to expand.. if it does…
and now it’s EB0 without any editing stuff.

EDIT: and a battle sprite editor… that would be good too…

but now i get to mess around with pokey…. HEY! I could also play as The masked man!

… this is going to be epic.

hahahaha… now we have an outside sprite for the unused boss! needs tweaking though…

JeffMan:

Chimera: The main window is resizable; you can zoom out; and scrollbars appear if the sprite is bigger than the frame.

What I was talking about was the subsprite thing, I’d like to see the whole sprite instead of just the body or the top of the head. If there’s any way to fix that, please tell me.

Okay, I’ll just have to bear with it then. Maybe if we can get more hackers on a crew, we can make a full M3 PK hack. All I really need is this sprite editor, a text editor, and a battle sprite editor. Maybe an event editor.

i need to be able to change the palette. how do i do that?

I would be able to help with the names if you can tell me how to help you.

There is a fill tool; I called it a bucket tool for some reason.

It took me a while to get that reference. But it’s friggin hilarious!

By the way, I can’t find the flint rampage sprites.

I know that a lot of them are blank, and they’re like that in the game too, so it’s not a program problem. A lot of sprites are really glitchy too but show up as such in the game, so just roll along with it I guess.

you also need to name the unknowns, I found one to be named Porky (3)+splash. and Banpresto+weird lucas. and the dead sprites for Flint, duster, and the two lucas’.

you gots some namin to do

Jeffman, Can I help you with the name programming?

Wow, I will definetely try this.
And we’re one step closer to the MOTHER3-to-EarthBound-Hack*

*not likely to be ever created

This is really nice. I’ve got an idea for it.

Please don’t kill me Difegue, but I kind of helped. Some of the names are just descriptions, and some are vague. I’ve got all of them but around 3 named, but that’s because they look really weird.

Also, the one word descriptions toward the end to the second to last clump that Difegue did, are because I skipped some, because around 20 something in a row were weird glitches, just assume it goes from the last one that I did that wasn’t one word, (in a coherent sentence every line), to the first one by Difegue, which may or may not have an addendum by me

(I probably used that word wrong, but oh well)