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Why my sprites aren't appearing in the game?

You're probably running out of VRAM space in SP3 and SP4. Lower the amount of sprites you use in a single section of your level.

This system isn't magical, have better thought process when placing down sprites in your levels.

Sprites are showing glitched graphics!

You're probably running out of RAM buffers to decompress graphics. Lower the amount of sprites you use in the same Y coordinate/column.

This system isn't magical, have better thought process when placing down sprites in your levels.

My ROM is crashing when I apply this patch to my ROM!

Possible causes:

  1. Your ROM isn't using SA-1 Pack v1.40+
  2. You tried to upgrade SA-1 when this patch was already applied. There's no guarantee it'll work fine.
  3. Your ROM is already heavily edited. I can't guarantee its compatibility with anything, this patch is super intrusive and I don't care about maintaining compatibility with patches in SMWC or your creations.
  4. There's a BW-RAM conflict. Go check your patches, I'm not a psychic to know what's on your ROM nor I care about what's in it.

How can I add more sprites to use this system?

Read the Adding more sprite ExGFXs in the section Graphics page in this wiki to get started.

Is this system compatible with custom sprites?

Yes, it is. Read the Graphics section in this wiki to get started.

Is there any tool to convert existing custom sprites to DSS?

No.

Can I use different skins/graphics alongside the existing ones?

Unless you have plans to code this yourself, no. You can't use skins in sprites unless you want them to apply globally. There aren't any plans to support this feature at all from me (lx5).

Can you convert a sprite for me? :3

HAHAHAHAHA. No.

Can I use this in an already edited ROM or on going SMW hack?

Yes, but actually no. You totally can! But there's no way to know if it'll crash or not and I really don't care about the outcome of doing such thing.

I can't insert PIXI into my ROM :(

If you don't have any sprites to be inserted with PIXI, create a blank list file and then insert PIXI again.

PIXI keeps asking for a list.txt file and it wasn't included!

Create a blank list file and try again.

More questions will be added once I get them via SMWC or Discord.

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