Hello,

I have a Problem with Tile Molester which I am not able to solve on my own.
I want to edit an 8bpp composite (SNES) screen by either pasting from a BMP or painting directly in Tile Molester. And I've noticed a strange thing: Somehow, it seems to support the display of 256 color pictures, but when I want to edit them, I am restricted to the first 16 or 32 colors of the palette.

I've made a few screenshots to demonstrate the problem:

first the imported picture (not placed yet):


then after placing the picture at he right offset:
(this is what I want it to look like, all colors nicely replaced with the colors of the palette)


But when I continue working on the Rom, suddenly it looks like this:
the picture automatically gets converted to only the first few colors of the palette.
the same thing happens when I paint with the paintbrush tool. Colors in the lower part of the palette display nicely while I paint, but afterwards get wrapped to different ones.


I've already spent hours and hours on it, but still can't figure it out.
Does anyone of you have a solution to this? Is this a Bug? Is there any other tool I could use for this?

Thanks,
Simon

I've tried several different ways of converting pictures to 256 colors and they definately have only that much. I could be wrong, but I got the impression it's not really the format of my pictures that messes things up.
What do you mean with "editing mode"? If you mean the Bitplanes, it's 8bpp composite, just what I would need for working with SNES 256 color pictures. Maybe you got confused by the palette in the pictures, but it is a 256 color palette, only the 256 colors are different shades of red and blue.

Hm, maybe you don't quite get it due to my bad description of what actually is going on...

There's nothing wrong with the palette, it's a 256 color palette I found in the Rom I'm manipulating. Also, I don't want to import the palette of the picture or something. If the colors switched to the palette from the ROM properly, like in picture 2, It would be perfect. But somehow when I have placed the picture in the rom and move to another offset, it suddenly gets all messy and ugly like in picture 3.

I've searched around for another tile editor which maybe would do the job, but it seems that Tile Molester is the only one that can display 256 color pictures and provides a functionality to import BMP's. Maybe It's just my bad luck that this function is buggy with 256 color pictures...

Does anyone of you know any other means of replacing 256 color pictures in Roms?

This is really annoying. 

I think I know what you're talking about. I've had something similar happen to me. You copy and paste the group of tiles into the destination file(rom) and then when you mean the slider up or down, the group of tiles that looked fine become messed up - either lost of color and rearrangement of the colors.

 Is that what you mean?

all that means is that it finalized your decision and converted the colors to the colors in the palette of the target file. you're doing something wrong. try reducing to the appropriate number of colors using an external program, make sure your palettes match, then try again.