Arena Ultimax Sprites

[Skyla Doragono]

All right, now that the easy stuff that I can do and/or figure out is out of the way for this game, it's time for the rest. I'm going to do one thing at a time until I get to the end, so this topic may still be going on for awhile.

Starting with the data for the bustups I've found: it seems there's two files working together here. One is a .DDS file that when converted, produces this image (the original .DDS prepped for viewing/converting in Noesis can be found here; you just need to change the extension back to .dds to get how it was in the compressed .pac file). The other file is .hip file that doesn't work with Ploaj's program from earlier in the thread, and trying to view it in Hipster comes back with an error that says "TGA: couldn't allocate memory." I honestly think it probably could view it, but it seems to be too big for the program to handle.

I think what's going on is the .hip file is the "clean" image, and the .DDS file is an overlay that adds the effects we see in the game to it.

Any ideas?

EDIT: A little more googling, and I found someone that's having a similar issue with a different Arksys game, but no resolution. I'm going to keep looking, but any ideas would be helpful.