Compressed Graphics

Posts : 65 Join date : 2016-05-24

Here's something that has always puzzled me for 4 years... the compressed graphics in the Streets of Rage games. I've also recently found out how to find compressed art locations.

Thanks to guides for Pancakes, I at least know where the compressed art offsets for the enemies are located. My doubts about editing compressed art have now been mitigated, once I started using The Sega Data Compressor.

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I was expecting the Galsia/Donovan graphics to MissingNo. out, but to my surprise, that didn't happen!

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I can link to an IPS with this experiment applied if you'd like.

Apparently, SOR1's font is located at 23A69A. It's also loaded into VRAM at the Sega Logo. The M and T letters from the font are used instead of the TM tiles from the Sega Logo.

I tried to inject BKIII Electra over SOR3 Electra, but failed miserably.

Posts : 65 Join date : 2016-05-24

Upon further inspection, it appears that some of SOR3 Electra's tiles are arranged differently from BKIII Electra, so you can't just copy & paste BKIII Electra's compressed art over to a SOR3 ROM and vice versa.

Edit: Here's a video where Electra is uncensored in Streets of Rage 3: