What is this?

It's a program that extracts sprites from the 3rd generation Pokémon games—Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, FireRed, and LeafGreen.

It is written in Python 3 and Cython.

Is it any good?

Yes.

How do i use it?

To compile, just run

% redo

You will need to have redo and Cython installed. For that matter, you also need Python 3 and a C compiler. And libpng.

Run it like this:

% mkdir sprites
% ./rip.py /path/to/rom.gba sprites

which will extract the front pokémon sprites from rom.gba and dump a bunch of pngs into the sprites directory.

You can poke around rip.py to change which sprites are extracted; there are a bunch of offsets in pokeroms.yml that might be useful.

What about other games?

I have written sprite dumpers for some other Pokémon games:

• pokemon-nds-sprites extracts sprites from the 4th and 5th gen games (Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, SoulSilver, Black, White). It is written in C and Scheme.

• pokemon-sprites-rby extracts sprites from the 1st generation games (Red, Green, Blue, Yellow). It is written in pure Python.

Zhorken has written a dumper for the 2nd generation games (Gold, Silver, Crystal). It is in pokemon-flavour.

License

This project copyright © 2011 magical.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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pokeroms.yml was adapted from PokeRoms.ini from EliteMap.