I asked a friend of mine to use Photoshop (I don't have Photoshop) to copy and paste the stuff on the right into a raw file (raw, with no extension at all) using Photoshop. He sent it to me, and I added .pal at the end. But Paint Shop Pro does not recognize the file.

The file is 54 KB. I thought that was strange, so I decided to use Paint Shop Pro, loaded the VRAM dump, zoomed in at 5000% so it would be pixel perfect, and copied and pasted that stuff on the right into a new .raw file. The resolution was 64 x 286, so I was expecting it to be 18304 bytes, but it was 54 KB again. Any help?

Thanks for clearing that up for me. Me and my friend were pretty confused as to why PSP wouldn't recognize it.

How do I add the proper header to my raw data so that it can be a proper .pal file?

Also, why is my "rip" so huge? I'm sure I did something wrong, but I don't know what.

At this point I am all out of ideas. My brain hurts. I tried contacting the creator of the plugin (I think his name is Pete) but his public email doesn't work, and his message board is dead.

The kind of .pal file that Paint Shop Pro loads as a palette. I think the .pal you just mentioned is that kind of .pal file.

So how exactly do I add this header?

And what format should I convert my VRAM dump into to make it 8-bit so my rip ends up as 18 KB? Although now that I think about it, 18 KB seems pretty big compared to most .pal files I've seen. Should I go as far as making it 1-bit or 4-bit?

Why don't you just use Tile Molester and forget about PSP?

Offtopic, but... do you have a link to a format description?

Yep.

Actually, I phrased that incorrectly. I meant to say, I wasn't aware of JASC format of .pal files. I thought all .pal palette files were RIFF.

 Anyway, I don't have a link to the RIFF format. I just exported 4-5 different palettes and looked at them with a hex editor. All the RIFF pals I've created with my PCE <->PAL/ACT utility seem to work fine in Photoshop.



Here's the RIFF format:

Header is 16bytes long-

unsigned char PAL_header[16]={ 0x52,0x49,0x46,0x46,0x58,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x50,0x41,0x4c,0x20,0x64,0x61,0x74,0x61};

followed by the palette data length-

PAL_len=(PAL_colors*4)+4;  /* word length - little endian */

and the number of bytes for palette entry (3 bytes = red,green, blue). The fourth byte is alpha channel, but I haven't seen it in use.

unsigned char PAL_shim[4]={ 0x00,0x00,0x00,0x03};

and the number of colors/slots

PAL_colors=n;  /* word length - little endian */

and then the data which is 4 bytes long-

PAL_output[x*4]=red;
PAL_output[x*4+1]=green;
PAL_output[x*4+2]=blue;
PAL_output[x*4+3]=0;



-R

Thanks for the program creaothceann. I'm just wondering, it seems my "rip" is going to be much greater than 768 bytes. Will vSNES still be able to convert it to JASC .pal?


Yeah, I tried loading my VRAM dump into Tile Molester and I got tons of gibberish.

My reasons for using Paint Shop Pro has to do with this topic since I have to make raw data I ripped from the PC game refer to the palette in the PSX game.

Also, the huge size is bugging me. I mean, the textures are only 8-bit, yet the palette seems freaking huge. Something tells me that just can't be right.

I tried getting in contact with the epsxe authors and asking them the hex address that epsxe saves the CLUT when it makes a save state. I still have not received a reply.