General Submissions

[Barack Obama]

My SNES shortlist for the most important games that need complete rerips are;

1. Yoshi's Island
2. Super Metroid

Others that could use work:

1. Harvest Moon
2. Robotrek
3. Super Double Dragon

Yoshi's Island
Playable characters already have very good rips, as far as I can see. The foreground stages are very easy to rip through GoldenEye:
https://www.romhacking.net/games/800/
The rest of the sprites could probably be
Method A - decompressed with Ycompress and viewed with an SNES tile editor like YY-CHR. Thing is, I'm not really good with this tool.
Method B - palette swapped from the GBA rips, since these are already very good too. Of course, palettes from both games are needed and I don't have much experience with GBA ripping.
Method C - ripped from scratch. Imo, this is a waste of time.

Super Metroid
Oh yes, this section is awful. But as I said, not another months-long cleanup. The smartest thing to do would be to get rid of the crappy SGK rips, which are incomplete and full of errors. This would include the playable character (Samus Aran) and one of the bosses (Torizo). Samus itself needs 2 rips, since she wears two different suits (Power Suit + Variat Suit (and its recolour Gravity Suit).

Harvest Moon
Jack could need a tile rip, that's for sure. Not sure if I could get it with vSNES (VRAM, WRAM, ROM), but I could decompress the graphics with HME (Harvest Moon Editor) and view them with YY-CHR (have to do reasearch about this method, I never really tried it):
https://www.romhacking.net/games/728/
Not sure what else could be missing except maps.

Robotrek
Probably needs battle sprites & other party members, also NPCs & enemies? I don't know, I never played the game.

Super Double Dragon
Not into fighting games, so this game doesn't interest me much. But I can clearly see that the ripper for the playable character didn't know about vSNES, since Billy Lee misses various body parts when it comes to overlapping other sprites, probably due to grabbing. Otherwise the sheet looks solid and only needs minor updates, I guess.

-Conclusion?-
I have the most interest in the following:
- Alcahest: Various bosses, I already ripped boss 1 (Lizardman) and want to do at least boss 2 (this lava golem thing which looks like a knight)
- Havest Moon: Jack (tile rip)
- Super Metroid: Samus Aran (all suits) & Torizo

-And for the other games?-
- Yoshi's Island doesn't need my skills. Yoshi & Mario have good rips, level ripping is too easy (GoldenEye) and could be done by anyone, enemies/bosses are already ripped (SMA4, GBA) and would only need a palette swap.
- Double Dragon is a beat 'em up and I'm not really interested in that.
- I would give Robotrek a try, but three games are enough for now.

I start with Harvest Moon, let's see if I can get something out of it.