How to Rip - By Superbronx

Introduction to Ripping.
Have you ever seen those moving pictures with those video game characters in them? Well, this tutorial will tell you how to make those. You can get any character out of any game, as long as you have the patience.

Ripping sprites can be a fun, frustrating, or glorious expirience. This tutorial can be used by both begginers and experts. It will feature how to take the snapshots in your emulator, and then how to finish your rip in Animation Shop 3. For experts, it will feature some methods you can use to make your rip look better or unique. Enjoy!

A few things about me -

When I say Pallet or Backround layer, I mean the same thing.
When I say Sprite, rip, or character, I mean the same thing.
If I say hit, click, slam, etc. on the button, I mean simply click or press on the button.
If I put something in the form of this: "View > Edit" I mean go to the "View" option on the top menu, and then go down to "Edit".
If I say press Alt + R, I mean hold Alt and press R.

This tutorial will feature instructions on how to rip for the following consoles and emulators:

NES
SNES
Sega Genesis
Neogeo
CPS1
CPS2
And how to adapt to other Emulators

Requirments -

Your emulator (You can go to Zophars Domain to download an emulator. I will also provide you with each emulator's homepage in the tutorial.)
An animation program (Animation shop 3 is used in this tutorial)
Your favorite rom (These are the games, do a Google Search to find them.)

First, you need to start out by knowing what you want to rip, and you hopefully know a little backround info about the emulator your going to use. You need much patience, esspecialy if your trying to rip something that moves around the screen, requires you do a special move (Such as Ryu's hadooken), or something that may interfere with your sprite. These can be a bummer, but remember, there's always a way to fix them.

Emulators

Animation

Advanced