Puggsy
A unique masterpiece from ye olden 1993!
Jon Burton's design and programming, Andy Ingram's unique style of
artwork and Matt Furniss music - absolutely magical combination.
Since I didn't see anything of the level layout extraction done anywhere on the net - here, I did it for you!
And also because most resources in Puggsy are generally in the same
formats as in their other titles (Mickey Mania, for example), I could use the same custom tools as
for all of them with a little tweak here and there.
I don't realy have any time editing articles anywhere else, barely any
sometimes to do them here, so if you happen to be proficient in editing
TCRF articles, feel free to skim whatever is useful from here to put there.
Level artwork assets
Here's
the files - rendered out as they are in the cartridge data:
decompressed, level maps into macrotile mappings into tiles into rendered image.
PNGs are 256 color (with up to 64 used, but actually only 16
colors are used for the most part: separate 16 for level and 16 for fore/background) with the proper
palettes, but not adjusted into visually~measured exact colors as the
VDP outputs. Priority bit is not yet used here, but I'll probably
incorporate it as separate renderouts with only priority graphics
(useful for spotting what is there and also toy around making
functional mockups of the levels by layering the priority image over
the normal one) or assign palette entries 64..127 for the priority
graphics (so that visually images are the same, but retain the
possibility of treating priority graphics separately given proper software).
DOWNLOAD CURRENT PACK of my extracted Puggsy level map and background artwork assets
‣ All level renders are full size, exactly as they are in
cartridge, with all the extraneous bits developers left around the used
regions. You can
trim those to your heart's content if you want only the used spots.
‣ And of course, all of these level layouts are free of any
sprite-objects (including the level exit portals) or live altered/animated stuff, so
we can see everything just the way it was made initially.
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There are some with alternate palettes.
‣ In some levels we can see covered over deleted parts of some stuff or the original level it was based on, for example darkskullcastle_0269 was obviously based on darkskullcastle_0251.
‣ Also added both the main level and unfinished pirate boss from the prototype.
‣ Some boss backgrounds/rooms, king raccoon and few other extracted
bits are there too. King raccoon lacks pupils since those are added
using sprites.
‣ Large sprites such as the Dragon Halitosis from FireHeart zone will be included there as well, just need to get to it someday.
Enjoy!
I will at some point (maybe by now I have already) post rommod(s) for
the Puggsy, since I've reverse engineered and already altered many
aspects of it. Music soundtest in options as well!
Stuff below this line is still unchanged from the Mickey Mania page, so here take a Pirate Ship, Raclantis Maze and some Palm trees for now!
I've got the files done, but it will take some time to put them here. Check back in a while.
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Level background and foreground assets
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