In-Game Graphics and Sprites Gallery
Welcome to DARK SEA’s Graphics and Sprites Gallery! Here you can find various sprite sheets, stage backgrounds and animated gifs for your personal use, whatever that might be. Making comics, wallpapers, a site layout, anything you like– take and use these freely. Note that the collection is not all-inclusive (yet!) and if you’d like to rip and submit something, I’ll gladly post it.
This section’s contents were contributed by: Olof Moleman a.k.a. Trilobite, BlueGlass, and Mecheon.
Sprites and Sprite Sheets
Shells and Snails
Vortex Future Graphics
Echinoderms, Crustaceans and Cnidarians
Floating Medusa
Moray Abyss Graphics
Turtles
Ecco I-Style Vortex Drones and Queen
Ecco Jr.-Style Dunkleosteus
Vortex Eel
Ecco I-Style Dunkleosteus
Orcas
Fish
Swordfish
Arctic Shark
Ecco I-Style Shark
Atlantis Tiles
Big Ecco I/II Genesis/MegaDrive Font
Pteranodon
Trilobite
Prehistoric Squid
Small Orthocone
Prehistoric Jellyfish
Atlantean Time Machine
3D Stage Nautilus
Stingray
Spider Crab
Ecco II Present-Day Asterite Globes
These sprite sheets were too big to fit on the page– so click the thumbnails to view them full-size!
The Big Blue
Ecco I-Style Dolphin
Eight-Arms
Giant Seahorse
Various Animated GIFs
Stage Backgrounds
Ancient Earth
Atlantis
Moray Abyss
Those globes, as I think you know, if you place them in a DNA spiral shape, that makes up the REAL Asterite.
Another thing, I would like to see a Vortex Jellyfish, as shown in the level, ‘The Stomach’.
I would like to see GRAPHICS for all sprites…i know that is RELE hard to do…so cud we start with ECCO and VORTEX? Thanks!
It’s never enough is it…
Though I’ll probably continue ripping sprites every once in a while and update some old sprite sheets.
While you’re at it, could you rip a sprite of a Vortex Jellyfish for me?
This isn’t ready to be posted on the site, but here’s the sprite you seek:
Okay, it’s not quite the Vortex Jellyfish from “The Stomach.” It’s the version from Tides of Time.
I know it hard to make it…i wish i knew how to make graphics for these sprites…im also waiting for tha ECCO LEVEL EDITOR…i hope to get that soon…BTW u pplz shud read my story ideas!
What do you mean by “Graphics” for sprites?
Good. My friend, He calls himself Sonic754, he says he has the Vortex Jellyfish sprite for Ecco I. I’ll contact him ASAP, and then I’ll try to have him patch them in.
Someone needs to grab (no pun intended) those tentacle creatures from The Lagoon in the first game. For some reason they scared me worse than any other enemy in the game, at least until I got to the Vortex stages.
Since those were composed of individual segments being dynamically moved by the game program it might be tricky to assemble something that looks just right– they really had no fixed animations. But the individual segments could be captured…
Those things were jerks. Especially when they grabbed you in Dark Water and dragged you into the volcano which would then kill you.
Nevertheless:
That’s the color it uses there, at least. Other levels have different colors.
I just made a graphic of the ecco sprites (was’nt easy!!) can I post it???
Sure, go right ahead.
But how? :/
Upload the file to any imagehost, and post a link as a comment. Or, email me (epicenter713@gmail.com) and it will be added in the next sprites update. Thanks!
Okay, thanks! ^^ Ill get to it ASAP.
These sprite sheets suck tell moleman to use a transparent background next time.
You can take that up with him personally. Visit the forum.
you know the hive levels of Ecco tides of time have alot of H.R Giger influence in them.. its amazing..
any ide aon how to make just copy one sprite at a time instead of thsoe who package of them?
from which ecco game so this sprites come from??
Looks like most of it’s from Ecco 1. The ones that aren’t are as follows:
Shells: Ecco 1, Ecco 2, Ecco Jr.
Vortex Future Graphics: Ecco 2
Echinoderms, Crustaceans and Cnidarians: Ecco 1, Ecco 2, Ecco Jr.
Floating Medusa: Ecco 2
Moray Abyss: Ecco 2
Turtles: Ecco 1, Ecco 2
Ecco Jr. Style Duncleosteus: Duh
Vortex Eel: Ecco 2
Fish: Ecco 1, Ecco Jr.
Swordfish: Ecco Jr (?)
Small Orthocone: Ecco Jr.
3D Stage Nautilus: Ecco 2
Ecco 2 Asterite Globes: Duh
That should be it.
Wow awesome keep up the good work and Ecco Spirit Lovely to see. Many thanks from the UK.
we need of more sceaneres , dont u think?
i would like to see a sprite of a giant squid
i would like to see a sprite of a giant squid that moves by the end of august 2009
I ripped some fish from ecco 2 x11, Epicenter said he’ll post them.
Stay tuned!
later I might rip the baby Orca from X11 OR maybe the tiles from E2A level 15 or an Ecco 2 vortex spider (Those guys made out of black balls) Which one do you guys want?
I’ve already made lottsa progress on the spider, so, Level 15 Ahoy!
These are fantastic, though I must admit they look very different in game. The arctic sharks appear much more intimidating. Where are those flying future dolphins?
I saw more Ecco related sprites on spriters rescource ( I think , I can’t remember…)
i wish there were easier ways to rip sprite
Has anyone found where the tilesets are located in the rom yet? I looked through it in YY-CHR… couldn’t find anything. I’m guessing its compressed in some way.
I just got finished ripping and converting the foreground and background to “welcome to the machine”. I only intent was to port it to mario world rom (making a machine-type level for an up and coming romhack), but I figure once I’ve released the hack, I could upload it here if people want. Its not all neatly organized, but everything’s there.
Additionally, does anyone know what differences there are between the machine graphics in ecco 1 and tides of time? It seems like there aren’t to many graphical additions; mostly just new rearrangements of the 8×8 tiles.
Thanks!
ChecksumFail:
The darker-shaded sections of Ecco 2 Machine art appear to be new. Tails on the forums should know more about precisely where to look on the rom, he made the Ecco editor and helped with the Tides of Time editor which, as far as I know, was never released.
On topic, I’d love to have a selection of Ecco 2 surface backdrops; would very much appreciate someone uploading them or advising me on how to extract them.
Oops! Guess I missed that comment when I was going through the comment section last time. The tileset graphics in both Ecco 1 and 2 (and all known prototypes, and presumably Ecco Jr) are compressed, with the exception of certain animated bits in Ecco 1 and E2A. Your best bet is generally to get them out of a savestate.
Jorge’s Ecco 2 editor (E2Ed) had several versions released, but the topic vanished when the spambot infestation was getting cleaned out. I’m not sure if there’s a release version anywhere (and my forum account is broken, so I can’t log into it right now).
Tides of Time’s version of the machine tileset… a lot of the added details are new. The tubes in the walls (not the ones that look like the Ecco 1 ones, obviously), the things that look like gills, and the background pieces in the walls. The rocks in the background on New Machine/Dark Sea are obviously new, too.