[Claude Speed]

(I'm new too hacking and stuff so I am not the best at it) Lets say any SNES game with no actual hacking tools made specifically for that game, When you open it in a sprite editor like YYCHR its a piled up mess, Even with the correct color palettes, (made up) For example say a face sprite for one animation, instead of it being together half of the sprite will be in the mess in like a random spot and the other half of the sprite would be in a totally different spot, Is there an easier way to search for whole sprites and edit them?

[Sarah Shinespark]

Depends on if the game actually saved them that way. Even Link to the Past has the sprites stored as mostly a bunch of heads.

[bogaabogaa]

Sprites might be stored in a 8x16 pixel arrangement on the NES. Then it helps to view them row-interleaved. Else yes this is how graphics are stored. Similar how you find it on the PPU viewer in your debugger. A lot of games do compress graphics so you can't view them without decompressing or use of a PPU viewer at all. If you look for a way to arrange them you might consider a tile mapping tool. Most game do arrange sprites well so you can arrange them by hand.