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Thanks. Often when deciding what to rip I'll try to be varied because variety is a spice of life.

When I was younger, I tried to go for games that I did like (Lucky Dime Caper, Point Blank, Special Criminal Investigation, Pang, Out Run, etc), the well known stuff (Streets of Rage series, Wonder Boy series, SMB2, even Sonic 2 at one point) or a popular media IP but gaming is more than just the stuff you like or what's popular. Probably due to being more of a Sega not-just-Sonic ripper than a Nintendo (or nowadays PC as well) ripper, it was easier to go down the rabbit hole. Starting off the Master System and Genesis going beyond the basics, then when it got tricky moved on to uncharted territory with Amstrad/Spectrum/C64 with some arcade games along the way. Had I been younger, maybe have gone towards the Japanese computers as well e.g. MSX, Sharp X68000. It might have been Superjustinbros and shadowman44 since they tend to rip more obscure games. Saying that did do a fair few GBA, SNES and GB games, even NES... Sometimes to help out on projects, sometimes to get more of the library on tSR.

Probably might have guessed but my NES and Spectrum rips don't tend to have much passion. It might be psychological since they were the most popular in the 1980s. Anyway enough rambling... 

  • A well known classic, sometimes ripped from more than one version. I try to avoid the well known games these days just because there are far better rippers out there that can go into detail, know the game off by heart or smart enough to make tools. Avoid anything Sonic because I do not have the level of Super OCD that some of the fan base has.
  • A well known classic but the version might be a bit more obscure.
  • A well known cult game, usually known for one quality e.g. some C64 games were sprite ripped because of the soundtrack even if the game itself is forgotten.
  • A well known bad game. I was aware of Renegade 3 and Human Killing Machine for years (even though personally Renegade 3 isn't that bad, if it was called The Time Traveller Fighter or something it wouldn't have been as slated. It was more of a typical only have a few weeks to make this game type of thing with 3 people.) I don't tend to do too much of these...
  • A real obscurity and ripping for the sake of preserving forgotten gaming history. This is where the bulk of the past 5 years have been. Anything from Super Speed Race to the first plug and play mahjong machine to pre-Rayman Ubisoft games.
  • Relating to that, some times prototypes. They are a part of gaming history.
  • Sometimes I see a game on tSR and if doable for me to expand the content. This is kinda rare and mainly like title screen stuff.
  • The game is easy enough for me to rip. Again doesn't happen often.
  • I don't tend to do modern games, mainly because that's covered by more competent rippers who know what they are doing (and in the case of the latest Nintendo game, I DO NOT WANT TO GO THERE). Did that before with Donkey Kong: Jungle Climber back in the day and personally it should be re-ripped, my latest game in terms of release date still remains the DS Lupin game. Do have a couple of PSP games that have been in the pipeline for a while. So yeah, most of the rips are comfortably in the 8 and 16-bit eras (3rd/4th gen) with a few 32 bit (5th gen/GBA).
  • Believe it or not there are games that I do like to rip but can't... Many Amstrad Ocean games.  F1 Pole Position 64 and especially F1 World Grand Prix 2 on the N64. The PSP Inspector Zenigata pachinko game. Even though I have been ripping for a long time, not smart enough to do any programming. Fixing GB headers with a guide is probably the most that I can do. Like wise there were some games that I had to abandon... While some have been put as WIP on here, others haven't and are rotting away.
  • In some cases, I actually like the series/games. Hence why some of the games that I rip, I get to rip multiple times or an IP that I REALLY like. e.g. Bugs Bunny, Simpsons, Lupin III, Batman. (also applies to characters too)
  • Within the past year or two, there has been more focus on racing games so they tend to get ripped. It along with a few platformers are more or less the only genres that I can play, even then only selected games.

Bearing in mind some games that I do decide have been in the backlog for quite a long time e.g. Congo Bongo C64 Disk in May, Double Dribble C64 in April while others are on a whim (but less these days). Some like Motorcross Racer on the C64 was planned but took until early-November before I could find a disk copy.

Just a few rips due to losing interest in gaming... No Amstrad this time.

C64

Motorcross Racer
Rider
Rider

Was struggling with the Blades of Steel rip (ripped the players and the referee but... not the fight mode and can't access the player vs goalie mode) so I thought of ripping something easier. As for the game itself, feels very Atari 2600 like just with better graphics.

Dalek Attack
The Doctor
The Doctor
Ace
Ace


Unlike the Spectrum version, this wasn't the last commercial C64 game (think that was Lemmings, late 1993/early 1994) and contains a shmup stage. Due to an upcoming series of a doctor who goes on adventures, this rip has been fast tracked. The Doctor looks more like a detective than anything and despite the flyer for the game calling the companion Ace, it doesn't look like her either from what I've gathered.

I looked into the C64 original of Airborne Ranger but it only loads whatever sprites are on screen...

Spectrum

Emilio Butragueño Futbol
Players
Players
Referee
Referee


Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo(breaths out)oooooooooooool! Another Spanish game, this time a jerky moving clone of Tehkan World Cup that was really popular at the time. Weirdly Ocean were co-credited so I do wonder whether they were going to rebrand this game outside of Spain (maybe as a licensed version of Tehkan World Cup?) but plans fell through or whether they were able to get to the rights of the player. Ocean didn't publish this game since most releases in Spain from them were published and distributed by Erbe. There was also an Italian C64 game that had Ocean's name on them as well...

Speedboat Assassin
Assassin Class Assault Speedboat
Assassin Class Assault Speedboat

This seems to be a rip off/inspired by Off Shore Warrior... That wasn't released on the Spectrum. There's not many chase view games where you play as a speedboat but when they did, they all came out roughly the same time! (Off Shore Warrior, this game, Live and Let Die, even Butcher Hill with one of the levels. Then there's Aqua Jack and Hydra where you're on a hovercraft.)

Continental Circus
Car
Car
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Backgrounds


Dalek Attack
The Doctor
The Doctor
Ace
Ace


Was going to wait until it was my last Spectrum rip (as it was the final commercial game released around 30 years ago!) but with a certain show returning, it has been fast tracked. The Doctor and Ace were ripped on July 24 2022 making them one of my earliest Spectrum rips, only a bit of fixing was needed.

Some bad news, having problems ripping Freddy Hardest in South Manhattan. The enemies from what have been done is okay and almost ready but Freddy himself, I cannot find the sprite boundaries for all the sprites. Tried experimenting but only got to half way. Then again it is VERY common that Spectrum games have their graphics in strips.

Not much left on the Spectrum... Just mainly fighting in the streets and Operation Mansell.
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Now that my gaming collection is down to the literal bare minimum (literally just a few Mario games, racing games and if you can class them as games VNs), it'll mean that I have more focus to finish the rips. Yet... the rips are taking too long, struggling with whatever rips that I have and even playing the games themselves is like climbing a mountain these days.

Originally considered splitting the racing games to their own project however felt that it would have been a burden considering how many are yet to be ripped and the ways things are going, it probably be best to leave them here until that day comes...

So yeah... Just a small amount...

C64
Out Run
Ferrari Testarossa Spider (PAL)
Ferrari Testarossa Spider (PAL)
Ferrari Testarossa Spider (USA)
Ferrari Testarossa Spider (USA)

I've lost count how many times I've ripped this classic game...

Top Cat Starring in Beverly Hills Cats
Top Cat
Top Cat


A bonus purple palette is provided since in game TC wears a grey coat rather than... you know... his purple waistcoat. He doesn't wear that in the Beverly Hills film either what the game is supposed to be based off.

Smiths Super Champs
Bike
Bike
Buggy
Buggy
Car
Car


Rally Cross (Anco)
Car
Car


Rally Cross (Codemasters)
Car
Car

Believe it or not this was Codemasters first rally game, way before the Colin McRae Rally and DiRT series (not to mention the recent WRC game).

Would have done more but there are issues with the rips including a certain doctor...

Amstrad

Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror
The Doctor
The Doctor
Splinx
Splinx
Enemies
Enemies


A quick rip, mainly because there aren't many sprites. Also I couldn't rip the items, they are either glitched or not in the graphics viewer...

Very rare that you get a game not too far from where you live or grew up in. Unless you either live in a place known for developers e.g. California, Montreal, Vancouver, Tokyo/Osaka/Kyoto, historically Manchester, live near a studio or you live near the developers that you keep contract with (at least with indie/demoscene type). In this case where I grew up, there was a publisher called Micro Power who mainly focused on BBC Micro games and were one of the two main companies for the computer, the other being Superior Software. I recently discovered that the home computer versions of Star Wars was also done not too far away, within a bus ride. There were a few other games that I knew as well e.g. Bill's Tomato Game and ResQ (Genesis, both unreleased), WipEout 3: Special Edition, HardWar. Game companies don't seem to last long...

This looks very close to the BBC Micro version that was considered by the company to be the main version. Said version was also why Micro Power had financial problems and was their downfall due to the needed expansion ROM chip (that the Amstrad and later BBC Master versions don't, also affected the unreleased Spectrum version as it was done before the 128k adoption and the approach was similar to Saboteur on the C16) and the marketing costs, probably licensing costs too. This game was considered AAA and a price to match, like paying $70 for a PS5 game. Especially when most games were generally less than £10 or £15 if you got it on disk (the disk version did price drop though). After this they only released a few more games (including a Chess game) and that was that... By the time I got to see where they were based, it became a windows and doors company.

It's a bit strange, two of the leading companies that published games on the computer were close to each other, you would think that I would grew up using a BBC Micro? Nope. When I was at primary/elementary school, only thing that the school had was an Acorn computer with Badger Trails being the only thing resembling a game and funnily enough, was one of the few people who got to go on it because people weren't as interested in computers back in the late 1990s. It's not like now where nearly everyone has a computer, phone or tablet. By the time that I was leaving school, it had just started to move to Windows (and there was only 1 Windows based computer at the entire school on my final year). There might have been a BBC Micro unused somewhere but this is over 23 years ago. That's enough of that memory...

Yogi Bear & Friends in The Greed Monster
Yogi Bear
Yogi Bear


Despite the name, you only play as Yogi and was a quick rip. The name is linked to Yogi's Treasure Hunt where the Greed Monster is one of the characters in the show.

Ruff and Reddy in The Space Adventure
Ruff
Ruff
Enemies
Enemies


Again, you can only play as Ruff (Reddy only shows up on the Loading Screen & the HUD). Speaking of Space Adventure...

Cobra
Cobra
Cobra
Dominique
Dominique
Crystal Bowie / Salamandar
Crystal Bowie / Salamandar

Yep, the French loved Space Adventure Cobra so much that this was the first game of the series before the Japanese did the adventure games on the PC Engine.

Err... Did you rip this game before? Not on here... Besides the original Cobra rip was from January 27, 2018 and felt that it could do with a re-rip plus rip the enemies, Crystal Bowie, Dominique and that Lady is actually a recolour of the android enemies that pop up so she's not on the graphics viewer. As an extra note, the game runs on Mode 1 (4 colour mode) so the sprites are baked into the blue background.

Daley Thompson's Super-Test
Giant Slalom
Giant Slalom


Finally something from this game.

Leader Board
Golfer
Golfer


Not having much luck... The Spy Who Loved Me is partially compressed (enemies and when the Lotus spins out on a oil slick) so that can't be done. Iron Trackers is half way done but it seems that the screen size isn't right with half of the screen missing. Still there's a surprise...

DS

Lupin the Third: Shijou Saidai no Zunousen
Zenigata
Zenigata


It's December 25 and people this time of year celebrate an important birthday. Yep, one Inspector Koichi Zenigata.

[Nearly December 26 because I'm too slow ripping... Sad]

(Oh and in case anyone is confused why Zenigata has so many sprites for what is an enemy. That's because Lupin can also disguise himself as Pops, it's a series trademark usually seen in Part 2 but has popped up in other series, films and TV Specials, even the manga I believe... There's even a moment in Part 2 where Jigen and Goemon were also disguised as Zenigata.)

Also to add on top of that... The game must have been rushed out because internally it doesn't seem to be cleaned up for release. Duplicate tiles, nearly entire sprites being duplicated (Zenigata and Zenigata_2 share sprites, only the animation positions have changed) and as mentioned before, early sprites of Lupin are still in the game. Doesn't help that viewing the animations causes Tinke to crash or doesn't display the poses. Probably why it also explains why this never came out of Japan and surprisingly didn't get an Italian release like a couple of the PS2 games (Lupin was not popular at the time to justify an US release, a different story now... this just happens to be the LAST Lupin game on a console).

Going to do something a little different in a couple of days time...
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December 30 has passed and now have been ripping for 17 years. Some of my rips here are getting closer to legal drinking age and many of them are older than some people who go on tSR!

For some stats and facts:
  • My first game on tSR is The Lucky Dime Caper and this sheet is the oldest surviving on the site done around December 30, 2006. There was this version of Donald Duck in the archive but the one on tSR is newer. In the future, the oldest sheet will highly likely be Bugs Bunny from Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle (NES) around February 8, 2007.
  • The first attempted rip was actually Dr. Robotnik from Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine on the Master System. My reasoning was because his character design resembled more like AoSTH compared to the Genesis version. AoSTH also happens to be one of my favourite cartoons.
  • Nearly 3000 rips on the site (technically close or more if we count removed ones like the old Sonic rips) at the time. Now way over 3000.
  • As a guess over 500 rips had to be abandoned at some point due to various issues
  • At least 4 sheets are completed but have yet to upload on tSR (Super Monaco GP arcade rival, Fujiko from The Castle of Cagliostro, Ferrari 300 from Bburago Rally and the Referee from Blades of Steel C64). There are a few more but have to rummage through the hard drive.
  • At least 120+ sheets are WIP
  • There are enough rips in the backlog to cover 2024, maybe even 2025.
  • According to tSR; the most games come from Amstrad CPC (259) while the most sheets come from the Genesis (715). The most genre ripped is Racing (231 games, 602 sheets) and will increase. When the retirement comes, there will be roughly 300 Amstrad games and the Mega Drive will still be somehow No.1.
  • Least amount of rips are Visual Novels (just the one and it's an error message) while there are many systems with just the one rip (Virtual Boy, WonderSwan, PS1, Neo Geo, Micom Mah-jong, PS2 doesn't count as it was technically ripped by Dazz). PSP at the time of writing is 1 but is likely to increase.
  • 1 sprite rip got lost when it nearly finished due to a computer crash. Speed Duel on the Spectrum. The game is cursed...
  • The oldest game I ripped is Sprint 2 (November 2, 1976) and the latest game is Lupin the Third: Shijou Saidai no Zunousen (February 11, 2010).
  • The earliest sheet that's still WIP is Simulador Profesional de Tenis on the Amstrad CPC. Any earlier sheets are lost.
  • My earliest appearance on a tSR update was done by Toadkarter on January 4, 2007. My first name drop was later. While I cannot recall it happened on the older sites as it was usually Dazz and co posting lyrics or what happened in their life, the earliest known one is when the current site updated for the first time. You know, the one where Shade goes back in time every year... That one. For the younger members, believe it or not name drops were really rare. You had to do something really outstanding to achieve a name drop.
  • In the old tSR pre-current design site, Yawackhary had never made it to the Top Spriter section. Personally I'm not bothered, I'm not that good Tongue Even now, there are way better rippers.
  • The first critique came from Dolphman regarding the Title Screen from SegaSonic the Hedgehog. (IMO it should really be re-ripped now...)
  • There were a few co-rips. RTB and I helped out on The Simpsons arcade rips (he did most of the characters while I focused on Homer and Homer + Bart/Lisa/Marge). Misselaneous10 and I ripped Lucia from Psychic World on the Master System however... I may have actually ripped the entire sheet or re-ripped it and she just got credit. The memories are fuzzy but I believe that she started to rip Lucia, then there was some sort of issue. It was an attempt to teach someone to sprite rip but it didn't pan out... The others that are on tSR people just added on any missing sprites and are not co-rips or at least intentionally.
  • Many of the anime/manga rips I was embarrassed ripping them, enough to use an alias. Also applies to the SD Valis rips as well.
  • Most of the rips I used GraphicsGale in some form. The exceptions are any that got converted and the Zenigata PSP title screen using GIMP for the first time. Mainly because GraphicsGale seems to have some transparency issues. A majority of sheets are also compressed via PNG Gauntlet.
  • My longest gap between starting the rip and finishing the rip is Bin from Dynamite Dux (arcade). Originally the sheet started when you had to take screen captures from MAME (as no ripping tools existed), then it got abandoned then completely redone when System 16 Graphics Viewer got made. Since the original WIP is lost, it is around 11-12 years. It's one of those sheets that was glad to rip from.
  • My most stressful rips from what I can remember was during a period when I was ripping RBI Baseball 94 on the Genesis and Sailor Moon R on the SNES. Those were gaming development crunch levels of sprite ripping all down to something that was going to happen politically but it later didn't. Had Metallic Madness 1 from Sonic Mania on a loop... If anyone wondered why the comments were a bit strange on those sheets. Had to abandon a WIP sheet of Sailor Mercury and portraits from RBI.
  • Multiple health issues affected various periods of ripping. At one point struggled to even rip 5 sprites from Fire & Forget on the Amstrad CPC.
  • The very first rips you can tell because they have Yawackhary in them except the first ironically.

(Yes, I know we're getting into April now... My backlog is THAT behind...)

I can't remember why The Lucky Dime Caper was my first rip on here or why I chose it but there is a bit of background info. I used to play the game on my Game Gear and it was one of the earliest that I could get far on. For a platformer developed in the early 1990s it was unusually accessible; no time limit, health upgrades not too far away, slower paced, two forms of attack (sometimes games back then, if you had a weapon attack you couldn't jump to attack enemies), some stages even have alt routes. I did try to do a few sprite rips, the odd sprite or two for SMS Power and even tried contacted The Shy Guy Kingdom to upload a complete sheet. Since there was no reply and this was when the website was still active, posted on... gulp... Pixeltendo. For a vast majority of people who go on tSR now, Pixeltendo was the OG forum and tSR was a section on that forum. You pretty much had to have "balls of steel" to be on Pixeltendo but the tSR section was different. The rest was history. There were very few Master System/Game Gear rips in 2006, even less if you remove the Sonic games. Even then I was surprised that there were barely any Sega in general rips, many iconic series didn't have a single rip. No Alex Kidd, No Wonder Boy/Monster World, No Fantasy Zone, No Shinobi, not even Out Run and Space Harrier, I don't think there were many Streets of Rage rips either...

Then you're reading and thinking "what do you mean about the first rips having Yawackhary in them?". Aren't you Yawackhary? This is where it gets complicated. Before I was on tSR, I used to be on Sonic Vegemite and SV was one of the first communities that I was on. The name as it is, is based off yak, wacky, and the obscure game Zwackery because it was different than favouritething/character+numbers or name+the+animal as a typical username might be. You also had to have some persona when it came to the hoaxes, most people there had Sonic OCs as it was the case of the fan base back then. It started off as a recolour of Bin & Pin from Dynamite Dux and evolved from there. The Yawackhary sprites that you can see were edits from Sonic Advance (I can't remember which Sonic character it got edited from). There were a few more of them that are lost to time... Can recall one of them was an edit of Woody Woodpecker but not a sprite and sprite edits based off Land of Illusion. In my early years on tSR, I called myself Mr Yawackhary to differentiate between myself and Yawackhary Duck (the character). It was planned to be more than just something that appeared on SV and old rips; wrote ideas, characters and scenarios. Due to complete lack of talent, it never got anywhere and now the character is a relic from a different time. Saying that... Other people did have an interest in the character, he did appear in fan fiction (a prototype form before it evolved with Yawackhary having his own pals and rivals, saying that one thing did kinda happen a case of fiction becoming reality...) and fan art was drawn. It also when someone stole the character and tried to pass it as something else for people to draw fan art of him (look at the commissioner). That was when the Yawackhary dream died and became the man who sold the world...

This isn't just about stats, facts or old memories, it's about the rips.

Firstly The Lucky Dime Caper had an anniversary clean up, the title screen, Stage Select, Sega Logo and font have been added. The cutscene sheet is re-ripped as it was missing much of the ending and the game uses a programming trick! The misc sheet has been split up (Dialogue/Stage Icons, Items, Huey, Dewey & Louie, Scrooge is now in the cutscenes sheet) and will be retired, technically these have been re-ripped too.

C64

Warm Up
Car
Car


I think that's why top down racers (with a few exceptions such as the Micro Machines series) have gone out of fashion. Mainly because of control issues, handling and if they are too fast, it becomes more like having fast reaction times and memorization since the view is pretty restricted on what you can see. They are more like a dodge 'em up really. Even later Micro Machines games and games within that type (Mashed) could at least zoom in and out, they weren't top down either...

Kellogg's Tour 1988
Cyclist
Cyclist


More or less Milk Race 2 with joystick waggling... Now I just need a bowl and a spoon...

Arcade

Lucky & Wild
Portraits
Portraits

Was ripped nearly 5 years ago but forgot to upload it until now.

CPC

Classiques Volume 1
Invaders
Invaders

Did you know that Titus in their early days did clones of classic arcade games putting them in compilations before it became a thing? Strangely enough, they are actually fairly decent versions of the game even if Pac-Man runs too fast. I'm actually surprised but I think they might have got into some legal bother since the Amstrad only got 2 of these Classique collections while 4 was advertised overall. On the flyer, Centipede, Berzerk and Dig Dug were shown coming on Volume 3 that wasn't released on the computer. A later flyer showed off Q-bert and Frogger too. By the end, think only the Thomson computers got all 4...

Fruity Frank
Frank
Frank
Enemies
Enemies
Items
Items


Since the CPC didn't get Mr Do! (not even a modern homebrew port), this clone became famous especially for an early title. As per classic arcade graphic design, the graphics are designed around the black background. No... hacking the palette won't fix this...

Game Boy

Ferrari Grand Prix Challenge
Car
Car
Roadside Objects
Roadside Objects


Racing Damashii
Rider
Rider


Just a bit from the unofficial racing game project. Unofficial as in no thread but generally rip from racing games these days... GB wise see if I can do Lamborghini American Challenge and Roadsters (the sequel to Lamborghini). Maybe even some more from International Rally, Suzuki Alstare, Le Mans 24 Hours, V-Rally, the Top Gear Rally games and the F1 games. Possibly even Ethan Hunt from Mission: Impossible and that blooming Three Lions game for non-racing, fingers, toes and arms crossed. Bearing in mind that Suzuki Alstare, the Top Gear Rally games and Mission: Impossible have the sprites done in layers as a colour enhancing trick, similar to the MSX/MSX2. (This also means that I would have to re-rip the existing cars too in Top Gear Pocket to reflect this)

Game Gear

Last Action Hero
Jack Slater
Jack Slater


F1 World Championship Edition
Cars
Cars
Roadside Objects
Roadside Objects


Scratch Golf
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Yet another golf game. Not keen on this one even though the name is interesting and the graphic style is quite nice for miniature size...

(As a footnote, the game can only count up to 9 as after the first 9 holes in a course, it resets back to 1 rather than 10. The manual says that there are only two courses in the game so...)

Currently working on Cliffhanger, Kawasaki Superbike Challenge, Clutch Hitter and Power Drive. Emulicious has problems with some of the games in particular the World Series Baseball games due to the unsupported RAM chip. I'll see if there's any more but from the sounds of things, that might be it for me for the Game Gear.

"King" GBA

Sega Rally Championship
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII
Subaru Impreza
Subaru Impreza
Toyota Corolla
Toyota Corolla
Ford Focus RS
Ford Focus RS
Peugeot 206 WRC 1999
Peugeot 206 WRC 1999
Lancia Stratos
Lancia Stratos
Lancia Delta
Lancia Delta
Toyota Celica GT-Four
Toyota Celica GT-Four
Backgrounds
Backgrounds


A surprise! I expected this game to use models like some 3D GBA racing games but this uses pre-rendered sprites. Pre-rendered sprites that are only 16 colours! Even though some of them end up being broken and it's like this in all three versions of the game.

(It took longer than it should as by the time that I discovered a shortcut in YY-CHR to display the cars in their correct alignment to assemble it faster, the rips were nearly over with just the two bonus cars from the OG Sega Rally left. The shortcut involved making a layout that's 8x8, one that I'm not surprised offered as a default setting...)

Yes, I did also rip GAME OVER YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Smuggler's Run
Backgrounds
Backgrounds
UFO
UFO


Top Gear GT Championship
BP Kraft Trueno
BP Kraft Trueno
Cusco Subaru Impreza
Cusco Subaru Impreza
Daishin Advan Silvia
Daishin Advan Silvia
RE Amemiya MatsuKiyo RX-7
RE Amemiya MatsuKiyo RX-7
WedsSport Celica
WedsSport Celica


Another one with pre-rendered sprites but uses a single 256 colour palette. Originally started ripping this in the same layout as Sega Rally above but then decided to re-rip it via the shortcut. Sadly can only go so far because I don't know the names of the other cars in the ROM... Can guess the Castrol one is a Toyota.

I did look into some other GBA racing games that are not on the site and in terms of vehicles to rip from the ROM. Inspector Gadget Racing seem doable but will take a while. The rest are either compressed and don't seem to be the LZ77 one, is the LZ77 one but in pieces, use a completely different way of viewing the sprites like V Rally 3 or really do seem to be textures and models. Personally I can't see many more GBA rips coming from me. There's one from a certain actor known for appearing in movies that had Blu-ray releases from 88 Films, Eureka and Warner Bros that got himself a cartoon, said actor also had games that I previously sprite ripped a long time ago.

Oh and as for King GBA... In the past, GBA used to have the most rips and views on tSR. Also some of the earliest rips on the site come from the handheld, some that are nearly 20 years old!

As it stands right now:
- Have been documenting some stuff on the wiki. Anyone ripping might find these useful.
- Trying to get the Master System project as far down as possible. Already have Woody Woodpecker, California Games 2, Gangster Town (possibly dropped), Shadow of the Beast (possibly dropped) and Sensible Soccer as WIP. Not doing the SG-1000 mode games outside of the WIP Flashpoint, the title screen of Sherlock Holmes due to language barrier and maybe FA Tetris (also the only SG-1000 game that is still WIP is Monaco GP).
- Trying to get the CPC games down due to the recent news.
- The ripping list is going to get frozen soon just because of both lack of time and retirement from gaming all together. Yes I have mentioned some new games to rip but really getting to the point of having enough...
- There might be some DS getting ripped but have very low expectations... I have been checking the ROMs to a few games out of curiosity (Corvette Evolution GT, Ferrari Challenge, Touch Golf, PES 6, Race Driver: Create & Race). Also declared Ducati Moto, Burnout Legends, Tiger Woods PGA Tour and Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith to be undoable for me, especially having its own custom formats. Only a small amount of Point Blank DS can be done (the doors). Tinkle claims Tiger Woods to be 94% recognisable but that's a lie...
- Expect to see some Genesis and 32X stuff within the next 6 months. Again have low expectations...
- My progress is behind by at least a year due to health issues and struggles. Too many games, not enough time... It's making me stressed...
- The backlog on the C64 games is rather high so expect to see some in the future including some from a few acclaimed games (Grand Prix Circuit, Out Run Europa, Turbo Charge with the first two already extracted some sprites).
- Ripping tutorials of Commodore 16 and 64 are WIP.
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Some of the cars in Top Gear GT are listed in the manual: http://www.atensionspan.com/KML/GBA/Top%...0(USA).pdf
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