I want to know how to edit HG/SS sprites.

[PaperPikmin]

How do I edit the in-game Pokémon sprites in HeartGold and SoulSilver? I know they are contained in the a/0/0/4 folder, but I stopped knowing what to do after that.

[Kakko97]

You have to use poke ds pic platinum..check it in the "rom editing tools" topic

[PaperPikmin]

I knew that already, but what do I do with PokeDS Pic?

[Kakko97]

Poke DS pic shows you sprites of all the pokemon in the game.

To edit them, you have to save the image, edit it with a graphic program (paint too) and reinsert with poke ds pic.

Then you click File->write to narc to save changes..

[PaperPikmin]

What do I do if it says the image has to be 8bpp indexed?

EDIT: I made the sprite, saved it as png, then I clicked on 4.narc, navigated to the sprite I want to edit, clicked open png, and clicked write to narc. However, when I revisit the sprite, it is double the actual sprite and has a jumbled mess below it.

Edited April 17, 2012 by PaperPikmin

[Kakko97]

save it in 8bbps or it doesn't work..

Anyway, there are a lot of tutorial on youtube check for these

[Elyria]

No. No there aren't. Necroed because nooooooooooooooo! 8bpp is a lie, doesn't exist, can't be done.