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Welcome to the Retro Graphics Toolkit wiki. These pages contain information on using Retro Graphics Toolkit. It is recommended that you read these pages to get a better grasp of Retro Graphics Toolkit. It may seem like a lot (over 20 pages) but they are all very short and easy to read. If anything needs clarified you can always contact me by opening up an issue, fixing the wiki yourself or reply to the Retro Graphics Toolkit forum topic.

There are a few programs that will import art for various Retro consoles but when it comes to converting art to currently supported systems no program does it better than Retro Graphics Toolkit.

Retro Graphics Toolkit was designed from the ground up to make managing and importing art to various gaming consoles and embedded devices a breeze. With its easy to use GUI you can jump right in and if you need help I can answer questions or you can read the tutorials that are here on the wiki

Features

Retro graphics toolkit has a rich feature set some of which are listed here and includes

• Importing common file formats such as png,jpg,bmp,tiff and more
• Several dithering choices and nearest color
• Multi-platform both in the sense that this runs on multiple operating systems and in the sense that you can create art for multiple systems.
• True color workflow allowing for easy changes in palette (to find out more read the article)
• Open source (GPLv3 licensed)
• Can easily make changes to tiles just by selecting a color and clicking on it.
• Two easy ways to place and modify tile placement. Either left click and the tile will placed on the current location using attributes that you selected or right click on the tile and then when you use the buttons it will affect tile with blue rectangle around it.
• Supports common compression featured in many Sega Genesis games.
• Good handling of alpha transparency. When you import an image with alpha transparency this is preserved and dithered.
• Tilemap blocks, chunks and advanced sprite editor

If that is something you are interested in either compile the source code or if you are a windows user download the Windows binaries here: https://github.com/ComputerNerd/Retro-Graphics-Toolkit/blob/master/RetroGraphicsToolkit.exe.7z