Done Fix Mew's RBY Sprite (Fix on Post #3, like 30 others Post #4, more things thereafter)

[Plague von Karma]

Most, if not all of the issues shown here have now been fixed. The images for old sprites pulled from the index of sprites, so any congruent ones have been fixed. Thanks to Zarel for helping me get these uploaded!

The PS Model Fixing thread specifically said to not talk about 2D sprites on it, so I don't think I have anywhere else to go.

This is a fairly simple fix suggestion; Mew has an area around its tail that isn't transparent, when it should be. Here's a screenshot with it in action.

Thank you for your time!

 

[CoolMan6001]

As a side note, all of the generation 1 back sprites use the incorrect palette: these sprites use the palettes from RGB, but should be using the palettes from Y like the front sprites do.

 

[Plague von Karma]

Took the Mew sprite from the index of /sprites/ and fixed the transparency myself. The left arm had some patches where it wasn't transparent either when I was looking more closely, which caused it to kind of merge with the head, so I went and fixed that while I was at it.

Should just be a case of uploading it accordingly.

 

[Plague von Karma]

On closer inspection, it appears this issue has come up with a few other sprites. So, in my infinite wisdom, I decided to go through every sprite on the index. For the most part, they're fine, but some seem to have just had the outer white bits removed and nothing else. It's easy to tell when the problem is there, as it's a slight off-white, unlike what's actually meant to be white. Thus, if it breaks the 4-colour limit of the GBC (black, white, and 2 others), the sprite has a problem.

Old​	Proposed Change​	Issue​
		Space between legs was not transparent.
		The area between the head and stem was not transparent.
		Literally one pixel on the right "spear" part of the shell.
		Feather tufts on the right wing and head had pixels where there wasn't transparency, causing an odd merged appearance.
		A single pixel on the crest caused the front spike to blend in with the second, which came from lack of transparency.
		Tail curves past the ear, but the dead space wasn't made transparent.
		Single pixel near the boxing glove wasn't transparent, causing the boxing glove to kind of merge with chan's body.
		Dead space around the right sickle was not transparent. Not sure how this wasn't reported during the NU spotlight ladder tbh.
		Dead space around the 'stache wasn't transparent, causing it to look as if it was merging with Kadabra's body. Curiously, a single pixel between the arm and shoulder on the left was transparent, so this was a funny oversight.
		The right magnet didn't have transparency inbetween the prong things idk what to call em
		Same issue as Magnemite only for the bottom left magnet.
		Pixels on the feet and left ear weren't transparent.
		Single pixel between the ears causes them to merge a bit.
		Few pixels on the "hair" weren't transparent. It's meant to come off from the neck more cleanly. 3 pixels total. It's a bit hard to notice just how much of a difference it makes, so I enlarged the previews of these a bit. Once you notice, it's really jarring.
		Transparency on the middle to right leaf wasn't there.
		Two pixels on the tentacles
		Single pixel on a left leg
		The space between the legs on the right had no transparency at all.
		The area where the wings and "hair" meet has non-transparent pixels. There were also feather tuft issues akin to Farfetch'd.
		Two pixels between the front and hind legs.
		A single pixel on the duckbill thing caused it to "merge" with the body when it shouldn't have. This is meant to be transparent.
		Hair tufts were merged due to lack of transparency. Very jarring when you realize the problem...
		Two pixels, one on the arm by the head, and the other affixed the tail to Squirtle's shell...
		Dead space between the tails wasn't made transparent, which causes it to look a bit odd.
		This one has annoyed me for a long time. No dead space was made transparent at all, causing it to be difficult to actually see where the tentacles begin and end. Did no UU player notice this one?
		Single pixel between the weird fish tail and the head
		Dead space between antennae and head, plus some bits on the fuzz, were not transparent
		Dead space between the rafflesia petals and head weren't transparent, as well as an issue with the "trunk".
		The area where the stem comes from the leaf and moves down wasn't transparent, kind of sticking it to Vic's body in a way. Kinda odd.
		Dead space between head and tail wasn't transparent, Bellsprout syndrome
		Dead space between talon and wing weren't transparent, creating a weird appearance. There were also some bad pixels on the wings and various other areas.

I shall now go lay in a dark room.
If needed I'll go through the back sprites but they should probably just be replaced with Yellow ones entirely as CoolMan6001 outlined.

 

[Plague von Karma]

Here's .zips of the fixed Yellow sprites, as well as fixed RB sprites from the index as well. I'll do RG and the current back sprites soon as well, since iirc there's a project for interchangeable past gen sprites anyway.

 

[Plague von Karma]

Next round of sprite fixes, this time with Red and Green, taken from the sprite index on PS. This one had some more complex issues to fix, but I got through it.

I can state without a shadow of a doubt that whoever did these sprites did it with some kind of auto-transparency app. Here are two notable cases from the Arcanine and Venusaur from the index of RG sprites;

Does something seem odd to you? There should be...because major details of their sprites got removed, due to the way the transparency was applied. Whoever did it clicked the outside white area and then deleted it all, not realizing the consequences. A rare but notable way Game Freak produced sprites in RG, was by using white pixels to define outlines while presumably saving memory on the cartridge. As a result, when whoever did the transparency for these sprites clicked the outside, Arcanine had a portion of the hind leg removed, and a lot of Venusaur's rafflesia got cut off too. I believe that the Venusaur sprite on the RG index also wasn't copied over correctly, because a whole part of the top was just missing.

Here's what the Arcanine sprite is meant to look like. I manually added the white space back to the hind leg and erased that dead space. As for Venusaur, I had to get a reference to reconstruct the rafflesia properly, as a whole part of the top got cut off. I then added transparency to pixels that didn't have it, such as some areas on the petals. There were a few other sprites with this issue, such as Wartortle and Kingler, but they were minor.

There were a lot more problems that I fixed, but there's too many for me to list, like with the RB sprites. I don't blame whoever did this for making the mistakes, as it's likely they just didn't know how the sprites worked. It wasn't a bad method either, it worked for most sprites (and made this easier to go through), it just didn't work for some sprites and...made them worse than when they started.

Anyway, I'll be doing RGB back sprites next, and may do the Yellow palette back sprites if I'm feeling up to it. Not sure about the latter yet.

 

[Plague von Karma]

Next round of fixes, this time for the RGB Back Sprites.

For some reason, Hypno's eye was transparent. Pretty morbid. You sure there's no hyper-realistic blood coming out of that socket?

I intend to do the Yellow back sprites as CoolMan6001 pointed out, but I had to go on a bloody quest to actually find the damn things. Bulbapedia doesn't actually have them, so I opened up Veekun for the first time in months and got hold of a sprite sheet. Seems I'm in for a ride.

Wish me luck!

EDIT:
I came up with a crackhead method of doing it. I had to find a mass downloader to pull them all from the index of sprites, but hey, better to have them on me for future reference. I cut out the sprites from the now-doubled in size sprite sheet, paste them directly over the RB sprites, then apply the transparency. It's not really difficult, just tedious. So long as I paste them directly over the area where the sprite cuts off, it should be fine and translate perfectly.

So here's Abra and Aerodactyl as a proof of concept, before I go and do all 149 others...

 

[Plague von Karma]

Some further RGB back sprite refinements since I found issues while doing the Yellow back sprites;

Ponyta, Porygon, Raticate and Electabuzz were raised/lowered and had parts of their sprites cut off. Rhydon had two pink pixels on the left just missing.

The Yellow back sprites have been finished and are ready to be put onto PS, thereby meaning all the RGBY sprites should be done and dusted. All of the Yellow back sprites had to be done from scratch to fit onto PS's "canvas" and position, as well as to implement transparency. No, I couldn't find a single place with transparent Yellow sprites, nor do I think I'd want to use them given the issues I've found here.

And that's everything!