Game Maps

survient · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 8:12 am Post subject: Game Maps

Has anybody found a scan of the map that came with the games? Alas I lost my map for IOG long ago and haven't been able to find an online version.

simkin_belinelli · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:13 am Post subject:

i ll scan it the next time that I visit my parents, i have all this stuff in my old room

Yet One More Idiot · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 5:59 pm Post subject:

I have the map, but I used it as reference a lot when I was younger, so it's not in very good shape now; the paper is starting to come apart at some of the creases....

I am a little surprised though that nobody has scanned it in before, or made it available already somewhere like ReplacementDocs.....

Jason Tandro · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:24 pm Post subject:

Hey anybody who can provide the content staff with maps for any of the games will be rewarded handsomely.

EverPhoenix · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:26 pm Post subject:

Jason Tandro wrote:Hey anybody who can provide the content staff with maps for any of the games will be rewarded handsomely.

and by that he of course means he'll keep you in mind when he takes over the world with his evil casino empire

Jason Tandro · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:39 pm Post subject:

EverPhoenix wrote:
Jason Tandro wrote:Hey anybody who can provide the content staff with maps for any of the games will be rewarded handsomely.
and by that he of course means he'll keep you in mind when he takes over the world with his evil casino empire

When the world is mine, your death will be quick and painless!

anclunn · Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 12:09 am Post subject:

http://www.vgmapper.com/SysSNES/I/IllusionofGaia.html

You're welcome.

Jason Tandro · Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 12:26 am Post subject:

I definitely appreciate it, but I wonder if there are copyright issues since these are already on another website...

Any admin know the answer to that?

Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 3:23 am Post subject:

Jason Tandro wrote:I definitely appreciate it, but I wonder if there are copyright issues since these are already on another website...

Any admin know the answer to that?

We could probably shoot off an email to the people who host them and ask if we may use them with credit and a link to their website. It never hurts to do so.

Yet One More Idiot · Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 8:16 am Post subject:

I just made the World Map myself, I didn't know about that map site. ^_^;

Jason Tandro · Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 11:53 am Post subject:

How do you people make these maps? Like technique wise? Especially for the world map.

Yet One More Idiot · Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 4:54 pm Post subject:

Jason Tandro wrote:How do you people make these maps? Like technique wise? Especially for the world map.

Using vSNES.

First, you create a savestate of the game in zSNES, with the game paused at the moment that you're in the map you want (such as at the world map screen). Then you load the savestate into vSNES and use it's "scene viewer" function. Fiddling about with it, you can see different parts of the scene, such as the sprites, the background (sometimes all in one, sometimes in separate pieces/layers), and the Mode 7 background.

In fact, the world map for IoG loads in the vSNES scene viewer as a single piece, 1024x1024.

By contrast, Terranigma loads a section of the map of size 1024x1024, but the *whole map* is 4096x4096. ^_^;

tay120n64 · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 12:31 am Post subject:

That site is badass. We need those pics here!