Redesign The Classics With Tile Molester

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the recent release of Tile Molester, which the author describes as "..a multi-format, user-extensible graphics data editor that lets you create, view and edit graphics in arbitrary binary files, with a particular focus on binaries for game consoles." It's written in Java, so "can be run on any platform that has a Java Runtime Environment installed", and the site gallery has some example graphics rips, including the often-ripped Zelda, and the less often hacked-with classic Deluxe Paint - other platforms thought to have editable data include Amiga, N64, and even Playstation.

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About DPaint

[sICE]

When i switched from the Amiga to the PC, I really missed Deluxe Paint, I finally found a version for DOS. If you liked it too, there's a similar win32 version called ArtGem. Though it is discontinued and not available for download on RLVision website, googling around you can find mirrors for version 1.3.

From the developer:

"ArtGem is a fast and powerful allround image editor, similar to classic DPaint but with the quality of Photoshop. Use ArtGem to scan, resize, merge & retouch your photos, create graphics for your website or to draw icons, sprites and textures for game & multimedia productions. View pictures and convert between different formats. Includes hundreds of high quality imaging tools. Supports JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, BMP & 15 other image formats. Work with filters, selections, gradients & layers in the dynamic realtime interface.

They beat me to it

[MyDixieWrecked]

I've been working on a program like this for the last 2 weeks or so. currently, it's a terminal-only program, written in C and only works with NES games. It works for Linux and OSX as well as many flavours of *nix/ BSD, and *should* work for DOS, however I have not been able to get VisualStudio to compile my code. arg.

The next stage of developement is to be Cocoa for OSX. It's all opensource as well. Check out the sourceforge project. Also the project page.

I feel kinda de-motivated now that this has been released, but I've still got some ideas for my app that they didn't seem to incorperate. Also, theirs, being java and all, is a bit slow to launch.

Sadly, I also posted a little announcement to slashdot, here, the night that I put my first release online, and it was accepted, however has not yet been posted.

I started developement on NESRomTool when NAPIT was announced on here, since that thing took damn near 5 minutes to extract all of the graphics from ninja gaiden. My app does it in seconds.

Oh well, maybe this blurb will bring exposure to my excellent ROM hacking tool. NESRomTool, the NES ROM hacker that beats them all.