[fuzzbuzz]

Xinux and I were having a conversation the other day, and he stated how tedious and boring it was to manually change Palettes pulled from a rom, or other CRam dumps into Tile Layer Pro format palettes (*.TPL files). So I volunteered and wrote a program that will do it for you.


CRam Palette Converter


It's a console program, as I am too lazy to make a gui for it. Syntax:

CRamConv.exe Inputfile Outfile.tpl

You should put the tpl extension on the outfile, just so you can open it right from Tile Layer Pro.

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Speaking of Tile Layer Pro, who else has to do this to get it to open Genesis Roms...

In the Open dialog box, I have to type "*.bin" into the filename for it to show my Roms. Then, after that, I have to manually change the format to "Genesis" else it won't work. Anybody else have to do this?

If anybody wants me to post the source for this, so they can do whatever with it, just mention it in here.



Fuzzbuzz

[fuzzbuzz]

Code:

#include "iostream.h"
#include "fstream.h"
#include "stdlib.h"
#include <windows.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	int sResult,I,j;
	char read[256], temp[1], write[(256 * 3) + 4];
	HANDLE fin;
	HANDLE fout;
	BY_HANDLE_FILE_INFORMATION File_Inf;
	int Size;
	unsigned long Bytes_Read, bw;

	if (argc != 3)
	{
  cout << "Usage:\n CRamConv.exe\tFilein\tFileout\n";
  return 0;
	}

	if ((fin = CreateFile(argv[1], GENERIC_READ, FILE_SHARE_READ, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL)) == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
	{
  cout << "Cannot open input file.\n";
  return 0;
	}

	if ((fout = CreateFile(argv[2], GENERIC_WRITE, NULL, NULL, CREATE_NEW, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL)) == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
	{
  cout << "Output file already exists.\n";
  return 0;
	}


	//Get File Size
	if (GetFileInformationByHandle(fin, &File_Inf))
  Size = (File_Inf.nFileSizeHigh << 16) + File_Inf.nFileSizeLow + 65536;

	//Read bytes into buffer
	memset(read, 0, 256);
	memset(write, 0, (256 * 3) + 4);
	sResult = ReadFile(fin, read, (Size - 65536), &bw, NULL);

	write[0] = 'T';
	write[1] = 'P';
	write[2] = 'L';
	write[3] = 0x00;

	//Convert array to TPL Array
	for (I=4, j=0; I < sizeof(write); I+=3, j+=2) {
  //Blue
  temp[1] = read[j];
  write[I+2] = temp[1] << 4;
  //Green
  temp[1] = read[j+1];
  write[I+1] = (temp[1] >> 4) << 4;
  //Red
  temp[1] = read[j+1];
  write[I] = temp[1] << 4;
	}

	sResult = WriteFile(fout, write, sizeof(write), &Bytes_Read, NULL);

	cout << "Conversion Successfully Completed" << endl;

	CloseHandle(fin);
	CloseHandle(fout);

	return 0;
}

Fuzzbuzz

[Rika Chou]

Hivebrain already wrote a program that takes TLP pallets out of screen shots.

[fuzzbuzz]

I know, but this converts palettes ripped straight from the rom, like palettes not used and stuff.


Fuzzbuzz

[Rika Chou]

fuzzbuzz, on Dec 29 2003, 09:34 PM, said:

I know, but this converts palettes ripped straight from the rom, like palettes not used and stuff.


Fuzzbuzz

So does his tool, the screen shots made with Genecyst contain the exact pallet data.

[fuzzbuzz]

Oh, well here you don't have to make a screenshot, and if you can't run Genecyst...=P

EDIT: AND if you didn't want to download my emulator, which can pretty much do it for you anyway... :P


Fuzzbuzz

This post has been edited by fuzzbuzz: 29 December 2003 - 06:46 PM

[Hivebrain]

fuzzbuzz, on Dec 29 2003, 11:42 PM, said:

Oh, well here you don't have to make a screenshot, and if you can't run Genecyst...=P

That's good, but you still have to dump the CRam with an emulator. It would be better if you could specify an offset in a file to extract the pallete from, so you could get palletes directly from the ROM.

[Rika Chou]

Another tool that would be useful is something searches the ROM for a particular pallet line.

[Quickman]

If Magus' little compression/decompression tool could be expanded to a general utilities tool, he could incorporate that as part of it. He already has the code for the offset-type stuff.

[fuzzbuzz]

Hmm...That's something I could look into. Though, I'm focusing more of my attention on my gens replacement at the moment. Speaking of that, I need a name for it...


Fuzzbuzz

[Guess Who]

Your Genecyst replacement? How about... Mega Drive Dump, or MDump for short?

[fuzzbuzz]

Well, it has to keep Gens in it, so it'd be like

for example, Gens: MDump. Maybe. Gotta think of more names before I make a decision.


Fuzzbuzz

[Icy Guy]

MDumpGens?

[Guess Who]

Gens Deluxe: MDump Edition! YAY !