The first thing you will notice is that the game screen will be replaced by the game's tiles. Much like the Shots Factory, the pop-up window will appear above the main window, so move it elsewhere. If you want to rip fighting game characters or those multi-layered bosses, the second method is recommended.Ĭhoose the menu 'Tools > Tileviewer' (or press 'CTRL+T'): The Shots factory is mostly useful for ripping backgrounds and simpler animations. Useful for identifying which sprites are which.

Checking this box will make the sprite blink on the main window once you select it in the white area.

Once you select any sprites listed on the white area, you can use these buttons to enable or disable them.

Useful if you're trying to get a complete animation

This button allows you to step a frame on the emulation.

These two buttons allows you to take screenshots.

For CPS games the three buttons will be available, while for Neo Geo games only the 8x8 button will be available.

These three buttons allows you to enable or disable the background/HUD layers.

This white area lists all sprites currently on the screen.

The pop-up window will appear above the main window, so you'll need to manually move it to someplace so you can see the main window.

From here, you have two methods for ripping the sprites.Ĭhoose the menu 'Tools > Shot factory' (or press 'CTRL+F'):

NOTE: DO NOT resize or maximize the emulator window.īefore you get to the ripping, choose the menu 'Video > Set background color.', then set the color to something other than black (I suggest pink since it gives a better contrast). Then, pause the emulation with the 'Enter' button (not required, but recommended). To rip sprites, you must boot up the game of your choice and play it to the point where the sprites you want are. It also features some debug tools, useful for ripping sprites. WinKawaks is an emulator that plays games from the CPS1, CPS2, and the Neo-Geo Arcade boards. Depending on which board the game you want to rip is, some tools will be more useful than others. Like with ripping from PC games, ripping from Arcade games is on a case-by-case basis.

Galaxian arcade game sprite