Tile Layer Pro v1.1

Coder : SnowPro ----> System : WIN

Version: 1.1
Updated: 12.07.2001

Tile Layer Pro, von SnowPro, ist die Win32 Version des populären ROM hacking utility, Tile Layer . Trotz seines gut klingenden Namens ist Tile Layer Pro keine kommerzielle Software, es ist tatsächlich freeware. Die Nachsilbe Pro, wird im allgemein für kommerzielle Versionen verwendet, (zB. Realplayer Pro), in diesem Fall aber bedeutet es nur das es die Windows-Version des Programms ist.

Die Haupteigenschaften des Programms:

* Support for ROMs of almost any 8 or 16 bit system (NES, Game Boy/Color/Advance, Virtual Boy, Master System, Sega Genesis, SNES).
* If you are viewing a ROM and some of it is stored in a different bit depth than is default for the system (eg if you look at a SNES ROM - default 4BPP - and you need to find a 2BPP font), dynamic switching of viewing formats is available.
* The program can open up to 256 ROM files at once (if you have the system resources for it).
* Individual Tile editor which has pixel by pixel editing, rotate, flip and undo commands.
* Tile Arranger - like the Clipboard in Tile Layer, but stores Memory Addresses, so editing a tile in the tile arranger edits it in the ROM file immediately as well.
* Palette selector, which allows you to use a premade one, or make your own (you can specify one for each ROM image if you like) so that the graphics look correct in the editor.
* Import /Export feature which allows hackers to export tiles to a graphics program such as The GIMP or Photoshop for editing, and then to import them back into the ROM when finished.
* Copying and pasting between different locations in (if you like) different ROMs. If, for example, you want to add an English font to a game then you can select it all in one English game, copy it, then paste it into the other game. This eliminates the tedious tile by tile approach that Tile Layer had.
* Excellent coding which ensures it is fast and stable. I've only crashed it once, and that was doing idiotic stuff, and even then it only crashed the ROM file, leaving the main window working, so I reopened the ROM and continued.