Extracting images from other games

Hi there!
As I am not a pixel artist I want to "borrow" some graphics from other games. Does anybody knows a tool for extracting backgrounds, sprites, graphics from other games? I dont want to capture screen...
Thanks,
Luiz Fernando

Why not just tell it like it is: you want to steal sprites from other develpers published work.
I do not know of a utility that will be able to steal the entire set of sprites for characters, since they are just playing in spots on the screen. (hopefully there isn't one that will do such)

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Good day,
I would like to start a discussion on extracting image (binary data) from a relational database. Although some might say that extracting image from directories is a better approach, I m still sceptic on that implementation.
My argument towards this is based on the reasonings below:
1. Easier maintainence. - System Administrator can do backup from one place which is the database.
2. High level of security - can anyone tell me how easy it is to hack into a database server?
3. image is not dependent on file structure - no more worries about broken links because some one might mistakenly change the directory structure. If there needs to be a change, it will be handle efficiently by the database server.
The intention of my question is to find out :
1. Why is taking image from a directory folder which resides on the web server is better than using the same approach from the database?
2. How is this approach (taking image from directory) scalable if there is thousands of images and text that needs to be served?
If anybody would be kind enough to reply, I would be most grateful.
Thank You.
Regards
hatta

Databases are typically more oriented towards text and number content than binary content, I believe. If you carry images in the database you will need to run them through your code and through your java server before they are displayed. If they are held in a directory they will be called from hrefs in the produced page, which means that they are served by your static server. This is quicker because no processing of the image is required. It also means the Database has to handle massively less data. Depending on the database this should be far quicker to query.
It is worth noting that it is also quite difficult to actually change mime-types on a page to display a picture in the midst of HTML- the number of enquiries on these pages about this topic should be enough to illustrate this.
If you give over controls of all the image file handling to your java system (which I do when I write sites like the one you describe) then the actual program knows where to put the images and automatically adds them to the database. The system administrator never needs to touch them. If they want a backup they save the database and the website directory. The second of those should be a standard administrative task anyway, so there is not a huge difference there. The danger of someone accidentally changing the directory structure is no greater than the danger of someone accidentally dropping a database table- it can be minimised by making sure your administrators are competent. Directory structures can be changed back, dropped tables are gone.
The security claim is slightly negated because you still have to run a webserver. Every program you run on your server is vulnerable to attack but if you are serving web pages you will have a server program that is faster than a database for image handling. You are far more at risk from running FTP or Telnet on your server or (worst of all) trying to maintain IIS.
The images in directory structure is more scalable because very large databases are more likely to become unstable and carrying a 50k image in every image field rather than 2 bytes of text will make the database roughly 25000 times larger. I have already mentioned the difference in serving methods which stands in favour of recycling images. A static site will be faster than a dynamic site of equivalent size, so where you can, take advantage of that.

Extracting Images from EPS - Problem with the Output

Hello,
I got a big problem extracting images from an EPS, which has been made in InDesign. The image does not appear correct.
Source code:
%ALDImageFileName: Speicher:image.jpg
%ALDImageDimensions: 30 30
%ALDImageCropRect: 0 0 30 30
%ALDImageCropFixed: 0 0 30 30
%ALDImagePosition: 203.8677 344.8913 203.8677 359.2913 218.2677 359.2913 218.2677 344.8913
%ALDImageType: 4 8
%%BeginObject: image
[14.4 0 0 14.4 203.868 344.891 ]ct
snap_to_device
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[AGMIMG_fl 30 string /rs cvx /pop cvx] cvx
[AGMIMG_fl 30 string /rs cvx /pop cvx] cvx
[AGMIMG_fl 30 string /rs cvx /pop cvx] cvx
[AGMIMG_fl 30 string /rs cvx /pop cvx] cvx
/O 3
>>
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Orginal image Size 553,9 KB
After decoding the size is only 1,8 KB
First try.
public class ASCII85Decode {
private ByteBuffer buf;
* initialize the decoder with byte buffer in ASCII85 format
private ASCII85Decode(ByteBuffer buf) {
this.buf = buf;
* get the next character from the input.
* @return the next character, or -1 if at end of stream
private int nextChar() {
// skip whitespace
// returns next character, or -1 if end of stream
while (buf.remaining() > 0) {
char c = (char) buf.get();
if (!isWhiteSpace(c)) {
return c;
// EOF reached
return -1;
public static boolean isWhiteSpace(int c) {
return (c == ' ' || c == '\t' || c == '\r' || c == '\n'
|| c == 0 || c == 12);
// 0=nul, 12=ff
* decode the next five ASCII85 characters into up to four decoded
* bytes. Return false when finished, or true otherwise.
* @param baos the ByteArrayOutputStream to write output to, set to the
* correct position
* @return false when finished, or true otherwise.
private boolean decode5(ByteArrayOutputStream baos)
throws PDFParseException {
// stream ends in ~>
int[] five = new int[5];
int i;
for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
five[i] = nextChar();
if (five[i] == '~') {
if (nextChar() == '>') {
break;
} else {
throw new PDFParseException(
"Bad character in ASCII85Decode: not ~>");
} else if (five[i] >= '!' && five[i] <= 'u') {
five[i] -= '!';
} else if (five[i] == 'z') {
if (i == 0) {
five[i] = 0;
i = 4;
} else {
throw new PDFParseException(
"Inappropriate 'z' in ASCII85Decode");
} else {
throw new PDFParseException(
"Bad character in ASCII85Decode: " + five[i]
+ " (" + (char) five[i] + ")");
if (i > 0) {
i -= 1;
int value = five[0] * 85 * 85 * 85 * 85 + five[1] * 85 * 85
* 85 + five[2] * 85 * 85 + five[3] * 85 + five[4];
for (int j = 0; j < i; j++) {
int shift = 8 * (3 - j);
baos.write((byte) ((value >> shift) & 0xff));
return (i == 4);
* decode the bytes
* @return the decoded bytes
private ByteBuffer decode() throws PDFParseException {
// start from the beginning of the data
buf.rewind();
// allocate the output buffer
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
// decode the bytes
while (decode5(baos)) {
return ByteBuffer.wrap(baos.toByteArray());
* decode an array of bytes in ASCII85 format.
* <p>
* In ASCII85 format, every 5 characters represents 4 decoded
* bytes in base 85. The entire stream can contain whitespace,
* and ends in the characters '~>'.
* @param buf the encoded ASCII85 characters in a byte buffer
* @param params parameters to the decoder (ignored)
* @return the decoded bytes
public static ByteBuffer decode(ByteBuffer buf)
throws PDFParseException {
ASCII85Decode me = new ASCII85Decode(buf);
return me.decode();
2. Try
public class Ascii85Decode {
private final FileOutputStream fos;
private Ascii85Decode() throws FileNotFoundException {
File f = new File("/home/markus/1/test/bild.jpg");
fos = new FileOutputStream(f);
@Override
protected void finalize() throws Throwable {
fos.close();
super.finalize();
public static byte[] decode(byte[] in) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
Ascii85Decode ascii85Decode = new Ascii85Decode();
ascii85Decode.setData(in);
ascii85Decode.decode85();
return null;
static long pow85[] = {85 * 85 * 85 * 85, 85 * 85 * 85, 85 * 85, 85, 1};
private byte[] in;
private void setData(byte[] in) {
this.in = in;
void wput(long tuple, int bytes) throws IOException {
switch (bytes) {
case 4:
putchar((int) (tuple >> 24));
putchar((int) (tuple >> 16));
putchar((int) (tuple >> 8));
putchar((int) tuple);
break;
case 3:
putchar((int) (tuple >> 24));
putchar((int) (tuple >> 16));
putchar((int) (tuple >> 8));
break;
case 2:
putchar((int) (tuple >> 24));
putchar((int) (tuple >> 16));
break;
case 1:
putchar((int) (tuple >> 24));
break;
void decode85() throws IOException {
long tuple = 0;
int c, count = 0;
int i=0;
for (;;) {
switch (c = in[i]) {
default:
if (c < '!' || c > 'u') {
System.err.println("%s: bad character in ascii85 region: %#o\n");
System.exit(1);
tuple += (c - '!') * pow85[count++];
if (count == 5) {
wput(tuple, 4);
count = 0;
tuple = 0;
break;
case 'z':
if (count != 0) {
System.err.println("%s: z inside ascii85 5-tuple\n");
System.exit(1);
putchar(0);
putchar(0);
putchar(0);
putchar(0);
break;
case '~':
if (in[i+1] == '>') {
if (count > 0) {
count--;
tuple += pow85[count];
wput(tuple, count);
c = in[i+1];
return;
System.err.println("%s: ~ without > in ascii85 section\n");
System.exit(1);
case '\n':
case '\r':
case '\t':
case ' ':
case '\0':
case '\f':
case '\b':
case 0177:
break;
i++;
private void putchar(int l) throws IOException {
//System.out.write(l);
fos.write(l);
Does anybody have an idea to solve the problem?

A scan from string function can be used as per the attachment. The double \ ('\\') is in the format string in order to interpret the '\' characters in your input string as literal characters and not special formatting.
Message Edited by Dennis Knutson on 07-10-2006 03:53 PM
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