RIP KL2 SPRITES USING CHEATS IN MAME32 EMULATOR.





Contents.



- Introduction.

- Requirements.

- Emulator Configuration.

- Applying Cheats

- Cheats Tricks.











Introduction.

In this tutorial we learn how to rip sprites from the difficult game KL2 using cheats based in the BLOODSTORM´technique that you can browse in his blog.

The BLOODSTORM'technique is based in some games such as MK, STREET FIGHTER THE MOVIE and KL1 as many people know Eyedol was ripped from it and created by Mike Obrecht.

For now as I know, neither PUGSY'forum nor any other sites I couldn’t find cheats for rip sprites from kl2.

And some tutorials given a way to remove the background colour by colour, and based in techniques each one know.

It’s tedious and takes a long time ripping in this way and the sprites lose some details, due to the colour combination between foreground and background.

This was the reason for me and another MUGEN partner that we decided to put as objective rip sprites from kl2 and two days after, we reach the goal, taking as reference other cheats created by other users.

We founded some cheats at least that will work to rip basics animations and to make this a open source.





Requirements.

-MAME plus! eXTended 0.125u6. or…

- MAME32 Clean Edition™ 0.103 (accept this cheats too)

- KL2 ROM v (1.4).

- Cheat pack and this tutorial





















Emulator Configuration.

(Skip this step if you are very familiar to this part.)

Before to proceed, you must know a little about emulators, cheats, riping, sprites.etc

In order to resume this tutorial.

Otherwise, any doubt or suggest you can send a e-mail I posted at the bottom of this document.

To configure the emulator I mean the emulator can enable cheats, so click in option, then select default game option.








































I new window will pop up, go to miscellaneous and check enable game cheats






















































The next step is to turn off the fullscreen, so we can minimize the window in any circumstances.

Go to display and enable run in a window and deselect Start out maximized.




















































Applying Cheats.

As you know, cheats are tricks to have an easy way to beat your game, as infinite health, have all weapons, infinite time.etc

And MAME32 emulator has this tool to do it, but this is another story.

Once the emulator configuration is done, unzip the files that content the cheat.dat in the same path as emulator is.










































Run MAME emulator with the correct ROM.

Insert 50 coins and choose the character you want to rip as “P1”

Then choose “DOJO STAGE”

Now choose the opponent “P2” (can be any other character.)

NOTE: The cheats only will work in this stage (dojo)

To select a specific stage, select your character first, and then press DOWN+Weak Kick in select screen.

This trick will select DOJO stage

(Check the file trucosKL2.txt included in this pack)



Selecting the character to rip and the stage (dojo stage)








This is the stage to apply cheats. Other stages will be ignored.




















Then press TAB key to access the menu and enable cheats.






Then turn ON the following cheats:

- Infinite time

- Infinite health p2

- P2 invisible

- Background remover











































Once the cheats are ON the background will change.






To explain how this cheats work is very simple:

This cheats zoom the stage a lot giving this effect. So this is not 100% effective but at least it work to rip basic moves and any other basic animation.



There are many mountain zones once you are move on, but you must find a perfect place to capture the animation.

A good place is exactly where P2 is stand at the start of the round, so move to that place and start to rip.





























This is a mountain zone. You must try out a good place to rip.

The best place is exactly where P2 is stand at the start of the round.






This is a good place to rip. Possible where P2 is stand.








Now start to rip and good luck!



To have a general idea about this tutorial check the video ki005.rar included in this pack made by Alonso Bernstein.

























Cheats Tricks.

In some cases we’ll find that to remove the background is not enough. But is necessary another tools to rip well.

In our cheats searches we founded a lot of cheats, most of them unknown, another freezed the emulator, but some of them useful. And we are going to explain now:



Ripping the jump animation.

Once the Basics moves are ripped, you will notice that jumping is opaqued by the lifebars; this takes a few animations out.

We solved this turning ON cheat: EJE Y. this cheat reduce the axis of each player,

In case the current axis is not enough, edit the data and put a high value.

with this trick you can rip the whole animation of jumping.
































Lifebars in front of our animation to rip.






Turning ON and changing the value in cheat EJE Y to rip all the animation.




Ripping the last 4 sprites in jumping animation.












This cheat is useful in aerial moves too:



Lifebars in front of the animation to rip.




Turning ON cheat: EJE Y and ripping all the animation.








































Removing hitsparks.

In some cases you’ll notice that some basic moves changes when you are near of P2.

And when you hit P2 the sparks takes some part of the sprites to rip.

The best solution we founded for now is this:



Turn ON the cheat: remove hitsparks.

This will remove the hitsparks near opponent, but a new animation will pop up near of P1 but it’s no big deal. Just clean it with paint shop pro or photoshop.



The hitspark in front of the sprite when you hit P2.




This cheat will remove the hitspark when you hit P2 but a new animation will pop up near of P1, just clean it with paint shop pro or photoshop.
























Ripping gethit sprites.

There is another cheat that we can use to rip the correct sprites when we are being hit by P2.

Turn ON cheat: gethit.

This cheat is very difficult to explain, you must know how to create a new cheat as a reference.

This cheat will work with all characters, but the values are different for each other.

Just change the values one by one and trying it out to get the correct gethit animation.



These are the steps:

Turn ON cheat: gethit

Select any ACTIVATION KEY (1st) = X (can be any key not being in use.)

Turn ONE SHOT = ON

And DATA = XX (XXX) (the value to apply)



Look the following example: we use JAGO as a referent. We trigger the cheat with Q key (not being in use and is near of the SHIFT key).

Turn One Shot = ON and we search a value in this ADRESS.

In this example is 9F (159)

NOTE: there are many moves in this ADRESS; some of them will make the emulator crash, in this case reboot the game pressing the F3 keyboard.














Press TAB key to go back to game and we press Q key and P1 we’ll perform the gethit animation.








Try another values one by one in order to have all animations.

This animation have value AD (173)




data = BE (190)






Data = BF (191)










Moving the animation up.

This cheat worked to ripped sprites outside of floor screen.

Turn ON cheat: upwards position

This cheat solved this problem, let’s see the example:



The sprite’foot is out screen.




























Turn ON cheat: upwards position and modify the value to get the better capture. In this case is 47(71).

Now we have a complete sprite to rip.




To get a general idea about this cheat, check the video gethit.vid included in this pack.



Another tips to remember is when you are going to rip this kind of game, choose a colour clothes different at any part of the body’character, because there are many similar colours to combine and an alternative colour palette will be imposible.

(I got this problem with B.orchid, the clothes are black and the hair is black too)





















For now this is all. This tutorial is incomplete, maybe in next updates we add new cheats guides to solve new problems.



Any doubt or whatever send an e-mail to kofelsalvador10th@yahoo.com







Sorry, I’m not an English Speaker, correct any misspell or misunderstanding you found.





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Created by: kofelsalvador10th & Alonso Bernstein.



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