[Tutorial] how to rip maps from BOR games [+sample rips]

[celestinx]

Here are some unedited map rips
Rather than just using the vmaps website another way of getting good maps is by ripping open BOR games

Open BOR has many 2d fighting games which makes it perfect for ripping and putting into the sorr maker

[ file - sample of ripped levels for use (i dont claim in anyway to have made them)]
link - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DJZ7HCY0 [no password]

Now those maps were just from 2 or 3 open BOR games as examples that you can edit and use.

Here is how to rip maps from BOR games

You can follow this websites tutorial

http://sailorvgame.org/kungpow/ripping.htm （there is two tutorials one is how to pack a borgame into a .pak file (ignore that one) the other is how to rip levels and files from the .pak bore game (what you want)

Basically all you have to do is

1) download a BOR game (you can find them all over the internet if you have not heard of them before google it here is some I found to start you off http://www.filesonic.com/folder/1498081 )

2) Download the bor unpack paxplode.exe which rips the files to a folder called DATA (you can find that to download on the website above, here is the link http://sailorvgame.org/kungpow/rip_pack.rar ) [no password]

For me it went to C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\data

3) In there the file called ‘bgs’ contains the levels open the parts of the level up into an image editing program

4) after putting the parts together how you want them turn it into a 256 colour file – in photoshop that is image – mode – indexed colour. Save the file bmp or png and you can follow boomers tut to finish the FPG edit file for sorrmaker

Let me know how you get on hopefully the sorr community here can start posting lots of mods for all of us to enjoy

Ive already started and will be uploading them now (too bad the bomber site was down last month because I was ready to post this half way through last month)

[graylandertagger]

I took your advice an used that tool to open the PAK file for the BOR mod Rage of the Streets. However I can't access the levels derectly they all seem to be in a file called pal.act which I can't access. Everything else that was unpacked was just bits and pieces of graphics from the stages, but not the entire stage since i'm trying to make SORmaker version of Rage of the Streets(but I know little about putting sprites together). Any ideas?

[celestinx]

I took your advice an used that tool to open the PAK file for the BOR mod Rage of the Streets. However I can't access the levels derectly they all seem to be in a file called pal.act which I can't access. Everything else that was unpacked was just bits and pieces of graphics from the stages, but not the entire stage since i'm trying to make SORmaker version of Rage of the Streets(but I know little about putting sprites together). Any ideas?

it depends on the bor game, most bor games put together the map in parts like a jigsaw
so when you unpack the pak file the jigsaw will be in lots of parts as it was before the pak file was made

so you need an image editing program such as photoshop/gimp/paint shop pro or any other one...
you will have to put the parts back together in an image editing program then save it as a png or bmp (i save as both) dont forget to make it 256 colours/colors as well...

if it wont let you edit the image it must be in 256 colour/color mode already so you will have to change it to RMB mode to edit then when you have finished the level put it back to 256

hope that helps, good luck. message me again if you get stuck.