A work in progress SNES F-Zero editor

The fzvs thread reminded me I never made a topic about this here.

This project is currently on ice because it's no longer one of my primary interests, but I told myslef I'd complete it sometime.  It's a work in progress editor for the SNES version of F-Zero with a decent number of features I think.  I was putting together some notes for the game because it's not really documented and along the way I committed to an editor which required rewriting all of the game's track loading code to get around some hot fixes (lots of track specific stuff was hardcoded) and allow for expansion in the way Lunar Magic does for example.  Then I picked up C# and started this (it's a .net 2.0 application)

What it does:
-track layout
-the metatiles that the tracks are built out of (64x32 of 256x256 blocks)
-palettes and palette cycling
-names

it can view but not edit:
-bg tileset
-track tileset
-mini maps
-AI paths / starting position (this was absolute hell)

It CANNOT edit AI or positions, this is the most limiting part of it and the first priority when I work on it.  It can export images to a full size bitmap, though these are 8192x4096 in size.

Some pics, linked because of the size.

general stuff:
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3144/fz1io0.png
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/8896/fz2md1.png
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/3868/fz3gq7.png
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/3125/mineser8.png
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/6113/interfacetestyk7.png
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/7999/aibrjq6.png
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/6767/namesze7.png
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/2318/dragndropop5.png

meta tiles:
http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/8568/yaypegl8.png
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/5195/mapilu5.png
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/8126/fzpe0000eq4.png

a track capture:
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/7025/whiteland2tj9.png

download for the current version:
http://smkdan.eludevisibility.org/other/fze.zip

I'll update this thread when I bring some updates in, but any comments on what I have now?

That's really cool.  It would be fun to remake 2D Tracks! *goes and plays Climax again*

You might want to check this topic out: http://www.mrfixitonline.com/viewtopic.php?t=3155  There the people who would be interested in this. 

Also your tool doesn't seem to display the Map right on the Knight: Sand Ocean and Knight: Silence.  It seems to display two tracks (both being the same). 

Thanks.

Heian was actually one of the people who really helped out when I was very active on it.  Alot of his/her criticisms went into the program.

Ah, how could I miss this? I have been watching the status of this project but didn't realise you released a version. It really looks awesome and I'm going to try it out today! You should finish it because it is clear your understanding of the track layouts for the ROM surpass anyone elses. Also you have come so far. Great work anyway, I dream of playing custom tracks someday. I wonder if you could add different music to the tracks, like mega man songs etc? I think it would be possible as you simply disable the track music and then hook your own routine in..