03-01-2013, 04:32 PM
I figured as much, sort of like a mini-header thing. Didn't really help though.
However, I decided to take a shot at organising one of the maps by hand, namely level01_map02_01.png, since that one looked pretty simple.
First I figured that the first white square showed the tile size, which was 32x32, so I set a grid of 32x32 pixels in GIMP. I then proceeded to grab the first line of tiles, not including the white square. I noticed that, at certain points, two adjacent tiles didn't fit together (which wasn't as obvious in this sheet, since the colours are all pretty similar). I checked it out and discovered that the tiles were lined up in chunks of 448 pixel wide strips, that is, 14 tiles. With this information, I took each line of the sheet, lined them all up in one long strip, and then broke it up into 14 tile chunks. It was then obvious that they went beneath each other, which worked perfectly, and I ended up with this:
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As you can see this is supposed to be vertically repeated, and from what I know of the game it scrolls vertically.
Unfortunately, looking at the other maps, they're not as consistent and seem to have random chunks of tiles spread all over the place. There may be a pattern, but even if there isn't they should be arrangeable if you look closely and see which tiles fit together. It's basically a jigsaw puzzle, but all the pieces are squares
By the way, I also took a gander at those .spl files and discovered that they're .xmls that specify "paths". Unfortunately I think this is used for gameplay rather than assembling maps, I can't see anything that could be of use.
In any case Hammster, putting them together manually seems to be the only option, and to be frank the easiest one too. It's tedious work but, in this case at least, it seems to me more effort to try and decode the .map files, and I'm not even sure if they contain useful data or not.
I'd be glad to help with assembling them though, many hands make light work. I rarely rip maps too (usually just sprites or background images) so it'll be "educational" for me, so to speak.
However, I decided to take a shot at organising one of the maps by hand, namely level01_map02_01.png, since that one looked pretty simple.
First I figured that the first white square showed the tile size, which was 32x32, so I set a grid of 32x32 pixels in GIMP. I then proceeded to grab the first line of tiles, not including the white square. I noticed that, at certain points, two adjacent tiles didn't fit together (which wasn't as obvious in this sheet, since the colours are all pretty similar). I checked it out and discovered that the tiles were lined up in chunks of 448 pixel wide strips, that is, 14 tiles. With this information, I took each line of the sheet, lined them all up in one long strip, and then broke it up into 14 tile chunks. It was then obvious that they went beneath each other, which worked perfectly, and I ended up with this:
As you can see this is supposed to be vertically repeated, and from what I know of the game it scrolls vertically.
Unfortunately, looking at the other maps, they're not as consistent and seem to have random chunks of tiles spread all over the place. There may be a pattern, but even if there isn't they should be arrangeable if you look closely and see which tiles fit together. It's basically a jigsaw puzzle, but all the pieces are squares
By the way, I also took a gander at those .spl files and discovered that they're .xmls that specify "paths". Unfortunately I think this is used for gameplay rather than assembling maps, I can't see anything that could be of use.
In any case Hammster, putting them together manually seems to be the only option, and to be frank the easiest one too. It's tedious work but, in this case at least, it seems to me more effort to try and decode the .map files, and I'm not even sure if they contain useful data or not.
I'd be glad to help with assembling them though, many hands make light work. I rarely rip maps too (usually just sprites or background images) so it'll be "educational" for me, so to speak.