Hi there,
I have a problem, there are tons of tools out there to extract/edit/insert graphics/tiles but they seem been created for 1 graphic at time....what if u have alot of graphics??
I have actually 2 project in mind; the first one is for psx:
1 file with 600 something TIM inside,
extracted with tim TimMultiRip, do i have to now convert all by hand??
At least a preview of the files in window would be help full even if it's still a looooong job to do.

The second project is even worse because of many things.
It's for NDS, 1 file with a pointer table and many single LZSS compressed graphics, none of this graphics in stored like they appear in the screen:

the most graphics on screen are like

ABCD              after decompressing they are stored as    AB
                                                                                  CD

or

ABC
DEF
GHI               after decompression i see them as A
                                                                      B
                                                                      C
                                                                      D
                                                                      ...

for a total of 3500 something graphics O.o

Sadly i lack on programming skills so my question is if there is a  "TimMultiRip" tool out there for the NDS that support LZSS compression with maybe a build in graphic converter and that can then put the file together again after the edit?
I believe Pokemon games use such files too, no tools from that side??
What about the order of the graphics??
is there a Remapper /reorder for graphics of NDS with batch processing support??
It would even be ok if he work only in 1 way because the graphics are very simple (basically only windows with some text or some "logo" that have to be changed anyway).
Means i could create the translated graphics in png/bmp/etc.. from scratch already and i just need the program to remap /compress and insert in the big file.
Thanks for suggestions/tips/secrets  or maybe somebody is ready to create me such tools. :thumbsup:

Here u go!
Title screeen from emulator:

This is the logo decompressed from the file
(yes, i didn't bother with paletts for now ):

And one of the 3 text windows decompressed from the file
(yes, everything is graphic):


another screen from the emu:

the small buttons in the lower right corner from the file:


The 2 lines black window:

is probably stored like this in the file
(yes, I know it's not the right one like the screen,
lazy to browse 3527 pics to find the right one:p) :




The batch Tim converter would be awsome, there are 2-3 games that need that :p
Thanks

Thanks, I will try it out.

Wow! That's awsome 
No, if i remember well there is not pattern but they are at least groupped.
I belive that your program handle single image file only ...right??
If i get a multi extractor tool in my hands that extract the "scarmbled" images from the big file and it save it in single file (maybe giving a name like 32_img0001.ext where the 32 is the width of the descrambled image) then use your tool and we are half where there:p

I belive the biggest problem is the multi extract/insert from the big file to single files and opposite (it's 3527 images in that big file).
Somebody gave me the idea with photoshop scripts to automate the re-order of the image like your program do.
Anyway your program is welcome especially if he can handle multi images file.

Why the game store them like that?? If i remember well in some BG or in one of the rams, the ds can write max 8width at the time.
Anyway thanks

For grupped i mean that there are maybe 50images width 24 then 30 width 12 etc..
but i don't think there is a way to check it automatically.

The compressed file should be something standart because I use NLZ-GBA to view them
http://www.romhacking.net/utils/529/

I uploaded the file (20MB) with all the images in it here:
http://membres.multimania.fr/auryntoo/nds/data.rar

I will go in holiday in 2 weeks for almost 2 months so if u want to come up with something, u have plenty of time :p

Anyway thanks for the tool and i will give it a try.