I really don't want to have to reverse engineer a Sega Saturn game.
A dual-CPU dual-GPU system? that's going to be SO MUCH FUN to try and disassemble

so I'm trying to hack the files rather than the code

didn't figure out where the palette was, but since I can find where the texture is in ram, I can just make it tell me what the palette is by injecting it in there.

it's a neat format. Every full sprite is followed by two sub-images for blinking. even that logo that doesn't blink: they just use the same image, but still, technically that logo is blinking

okay I think I know enough about the image format to write an extractor. It SEEMS the palette is always the same, and I semi-automatically extracted it once

there are 304 distinct portrait IDs. Hopefully they didn't fuck this up and all the instances of them are identical

basically each scene has a copy of the faces used in it, and it connects those to a universal ID.

but the versions in each scene could be different, especially on accident

extracted 2122 portrait images: all of them completely black.

I hate dealing with palettes in python (w/PIL(low))

good news: they did it right. there are no variants among the different scenes, they didn't fuck up their content creation pipeline

304 portraits

ugh, the emulator (Yaba Sanshiro 2) stores the Saturn ram in word-swapped order

AHHHHHHHHHHH