CRam Converter

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.



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Code:

Code (Text):

1. #include "iostream.h"
2. #include "fstream.h"
3. #include "stdlib.h"
4. #include <windows.h>
5.  
6. int main(int argc, char **argv)
7. {
8.     int sResult,I,j;
9.     char read[256], temp[1], write[(256 * 3) + 4];
10.     HANDLE fin;
11.     HANDLE fout;
12.     BY_HANDLE_FILE_INFORMATION File_Inf;
13.     int Size;
14.     unsigned long Bytes_Read, bw;
15.  
16.     if (argc != 3)
17.     {
18.  &nbsp;cout << "Usage:\n CRamConv.exe\tFilein\tFileout\n";
19.  &nbsp;return 0;
20.     }
21.  
22.     if ((fin = CreateFile(argv[1], GENERIC_READ, FILE_SHARE_READ, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL)) == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
23.     {
24.  &nbsp;cout << "Cannot open input file.\n";
25.  &nbsp;return 0;
26.     }
27.  
28.     if ((fout = CreateFile(argv[2], GENERIC_WRITE, NULL, NULL, CREATE_NEW, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL)) == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
29.     {
30.  &nbsp;cout << "Output file already exists.\n";
31.  &nbsp;return 0;
32.     }
33.  
34.  
35.     //Get File Size
36.     if (GetFileInformationByHandle(fin, &File_Inf))
37.  &nbsp;Size = (File_Inf.nFileSizeHigh << 16) + File_Inf.nFileSizeLow + 65536;
38.  
39.     //Read bytes into buffer
40.     memset(read, 0, 256);
41.     memset(write, 0, (256 * 3) + 4);
42.     sResult = ReadFile(fin, read, (Size - 65536), &bw, NULL);
43.  
44.     write[0] = 'T';
45.     write[1] = 'P';
46.     write[2] = 'L';
47.     write[3] = 0x00;
48.  
49.     //Convert array to TPL Array
50.     for (I=4, j=0; I < sizeof(write); I+=3, j+=2) {
51.  &nbsp;//Blue
52.  &nbsp;temp[1] = read[j];
53.  &nbsp;write[I+2] = temp[1] << 4;
54.  &nbsp;//Green
55.  &nbsp;temp[1] = read[j+1];
56.  &nbsp;write[I+1] = (temp[1] >> 4) << 4;
57.  &nbsp;//Red
58.  &nbsp;temp[1] = read[j+1];
59.  &nbsp;write[I] = temp[1] << 4;
60.     }
61.  
62.     sResult = WriteFile(fout, write, sizeof(write), &Bytes_Read, NULL);
63.  
64.     cout << "Conversion Successfully Completed" << endl;
65.  
66.     CloseHandle(fin);
67.     CloseHandle(fout);
68.  
69.     return 0;
70. }

Fuzzbuzz

 

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


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

 

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

 

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.


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