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 ROMview v3.5

 by Phantom Menace
 Feb 19, 2000

 Armageddon Games

 URL: http://www.armageddongames.com/
 email: jer@armageddongames.com

 Made with DJGPP and Allegro.
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WHAT IT DOES:
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Views and rips tiles from NES and SNES ROMs and save states. It was originally created to rip tiles from bszelda.smc.

Some SNES ROMs don't have much to look at. In bszelda, all the tiles are viewable. For most other games, looking in the ZST save states is a better way to go. NES games are just the opposite; you can always see all the tiles in the ROMs, but not always in the save states.

The rip feature lets you choose which tiles to get and which colors to use for them.

Version 3.0:
 - GUI and preview mode. Thanks to bumpus_ and Rory for their suggestions.

Version 3.2:
 - added NES tile format
 - new left, right, home, end, plus, and minus key functions
 - detects NESticle screen shots and set up the palette so you can use all the colors.

Version 3.5:
 - new GUI with multiple-type file browser (uses "jwin" GUI)
 - semi-intelligent auto setup for certain file types
 - loads palettes from ZST and STA save states, either separately (as palettes) or while loading the save states as ROMs



USAGE:
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romview [romfile [imagefile]]

The imagefile is for palette info. It can be any screen shot of the game, but should only be in 256 colors. (In ZSNES, set the video mode to a 256 color mode, then take a snap shot.)




KEYS:
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F1:         view this file

1,2,4,8:    change the number of SNES bitplanes

n:          change to NES mode

num+,num-:  change color set

up,down:    move up or down one row

pgup,pgdn:  move up or down 30 rows (one screen)

home,end:   goto beginning/end of file

z,x:        fine tuning (dec/inc tuning offset by 1)

left,right: dec/inc tuning offset by one tile

space:      select the current screen (locks bitplanes)

left click: select row or tile, depending on selection mode (locks bitplanes)

right clik: unselect row

c:          clear all selections and unlock the bitplane selection

w:          change bitmap width (128,256,512)

a:          select all rows using current color set (Use this cautiously. It can lead to huge bitmaps.)

m:          toggle selection mode between "single" and "row" (Referring to color selection only. You still have to select a row of tiles at a time.)

v:          preview selections

s:          save all selected rows using current palette (saves to rombmp##.bmp, where ## is incremented each time)

p:          change the palette
            0: imagefile palette
            1: clear colors black
            2: clear colors inverted
            3: all colors inverted

esc:        exit ROMview




PREVIEW MODE:
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arrow keys:   move around
shift+arrows: move 5 times fster

c:            center image
z:            align image with top left corner

~:            50% scale
1:            100% scale
2:            200% scale
3:            300% scale
4:            400% scale
5:            500% scale

page up:      zoom out by 5%
page down:    zoom in by 5%

esc:          exit preview mode


