any programs that lets you make backgrounds on mac?

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Kitty_Space_Program
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any programs that lets you make backgrounds on mac?

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Are there any tools that let you make and edit backgrounds on mac?
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If you use GIMP (or any other pixel art editor) for Mac and Python 3 for Mac, you can use savtool.py from NES BG Editor to convert a PNG to a pattern table and nametable format that the NES can read.
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tepples wrote: Wed Oct 14, 2020 6:03 pm If you use GIMP (or any other pixel art editor)
I don't really have anything like that. But it might be a back up option
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Thankfully you can obtain GIMP (as well as a number of editors that can save as PNG) for free.
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Hi,

On my side, I'm using the following editor on Mac: : https://github.com/tsalvo/nes-chr-editor. If you want, I can provide a napp (I've conpiled it).

It's enough to open an existing ROM tiles (I don't know if all mapper are supported). It's not a level editor, just a way to edit the CHR.

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dienben2020 wrote: Mon Oct 19, 2020 2:43 am Hi,

On my side, I'm using the following editor on Mac: : https://github.com/tsalvo/nes-chr-editor. If you want.
Yeah thats what I'm using, I didn't realize it would work for backgrounds.
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Re: any programs that lets you make backgrounds on mac?

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Hi,

Depending on your mapper, the first Kb is the background. That the way I'm using it for now. You could create your CHR from png and then use, on mac, python script to generate the CHR.

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Benoit
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I used to use NES Screen Tool with WINE, but that stopped working with MacOS Catalina. So I ended up making my own!

https://famicom.party/neslightbox

Please give it a try and let me know what it's missing. :)
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You can use Tiled/Aesprite they are crossplatform tools for Graphics.
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