Backbuffer Color

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 6:40 am

Accessing the registers that way would be nice.

Btw. you'd need 3 writes to set any possible color - one for each RGB channel. Some colors require less.

PhoenixX_2 · Post by **PhoenixX_2** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:34 pm

The grabbing would be to some arbitrary 8x[whatevermanytiles] bitmap.

Unless the color merely uses a palette colour, then it'd be just 1 byte

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creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:23 pm

I still don't understand, sorry.

Do you mean copying all tiles of a background to a bitmap that has a size of 8x1024 pixels? (larger for bigger BGs)

PhoenixX_2 · Post by **PhoenixX_2** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:39 pm

Hehe.

I mean grabbing all the unique tiles from a specific BG and putting them into a bitmap. The width would be based on the number of tiles it was able to properly fetch.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 6:52 pm

Sure, that wouldn't be a problem. As I said I can't do it, but I could help if you want to write such a program.

PhoenixX_2 · Post by **PhoenixX_2** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:10 pm

Yeah, I'm just trying to see if it is worth building an app, or doing it manually.

About BGMapper... Does it work with the new ZST files? It seems to only accept the older ZS? files (where ? is replaced by a digit).

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:22 pm

It should also work with the current ZSTs.

Savestate slot 0 has the filename extension *.zst, the other slots have the extension *.zs1 to *.zs9. The format stays the same.

Post by **pagefault** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:38 pm

I will add this to a command line option but you will be limited to a 15-bit colour range.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 6:28 pm

That would be nice.

I'm sure the 15-bit range won't be a problem.

PhoenixX_2 · Post by **PhoenixX_2** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:22 pm

I DEMAND all 24 bits!!...

As long as it isn't default to black (or whatever seems to be the census about what colour it is painting), I think it'd be very nice

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Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:13 pm

There's a pretty good chance it will default to black.. as any other color isn't normal to the majority of the users.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 7:24 am

Why should there be a default color? Just require that the format is

ZSNES -bd#005070

... or similar, and ignore the switch if no color is specified.