An interesting idea...

[tepples]

If you don't like C++, you could learn Python and make your metasprite editor in PyGTK.

[thefox]

There's a metasprite editor for NES in NES Screen Tool. It's not the greatest metasprite editor around, but it does the job.

[never-obsolete]

I added a simple metasprite editor to MapEd Pro. If anyone is interested, I could post an update.

Animation formats:

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1: [FRAME, TIME][...][CTRL_CODE]
2: [COUNT][FRAME, TIME][...]
3: [START][LENGTH][TIME]

Frame formats:

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1: [COUNT][Y, T, A, X][...]
2: [COUNT][A][Y, T, X][...]

Coordinates can be signed or unsigned. It doesn't cover all cases, but most of the commercial games I've seen used something similar.



I've been testing other things that were added to the program, so I haven't posted a new version in a while.

[psycopathicteen]

I just came up with another solution. For my future SNES games, I'll implement variable slot height into my self-defragmenting variable sized slot dynamic animation engine. So far, only variable width have been implemented. This means I can have a 32x40 sprite stored in ROM without compressing it to fit within 64x16, without wasting too much extra room.