murray1983 Title Screen

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Sounds like you want a title screen for your game.

One example of throwing a picture on the screen is Lakabajo
devster.monkeeh.com/sega/lakabajo/lakabajo_test.zip

I'd use ImaGenesis to convert a picture into a .dat file that can be used.
devster.monkeeh.com/sega/imagenesis/

Note that the sound stuff in Lakabajo is probably broken on real hardware. I've honestly forgotten if it works or not.

Note also that this isn't the definitive answer. I'm sure others have additional info to help out.

[murray1983]

cheers ill try that later on after i have had my toad in the hole

yummm

[murray1983]

just downloaded imagenesis, and it lets you export platte data not safe as .dat

[murray1983]

bump guys ne idea how to make a .dat file as imagenesis dont do it

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When you open your image in Imagenesis, go to Actions, quantize, press CTRL+F1 (or Action -> Export Tile Data) and you can select BEX source code (copy/paste into BEX), or binary (save as a file), and same for palettes if you do CTRL+F2 or Action -> Export Palette information.

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There be a better example at the newly re-opened Airwalk Studios forum:
www.airwalkstudios.com/affinity/forum/programming-hardware/Tutorial:-How-to-make-a-Title-Screen/

If you want to make your own title screen Affinity:Draw would be the way to go.
www.airwalkstudios.com/ad.php

I use ImaGenesis when I want to import an image from another program.

[Syniphas]

for airstriker 2 (source code somewhere in this forum) IIRC i converted the image from photoshop with yychr (which i also used for the rest of the graphics) and don't really remember how i did the tilemap, but it involved a lot of hacking away manually

my experience with imagenesis was not a favorable one and i would not personally recommend it. (unoptimized tile data, incorrect color conversion etc)

EDIT: looking back, apparently i used yychr for airstriker, but i did use imagenesis or something similar for airstriker 2 (though i still don't recommend it, i remember simply getting the image on screen was a pain in the ass and it still looked like crap)