Fredit

Fredit.exe is a frame editor for the animated icons used in bomberman. Other animated icon editors don't work with the bomberman .ani files as they are not a standardised animated icon file.

Fredit is included in the original Atomic Bomberman files in the Tools folder. Make a copy of the .ani files and place them in the tools folder.

You can either access it with VirtualBox in a windows 95 or 98 virtual machine or DosBOX (with or without windows 3.1) if you use virtualbox when exporting frames to targa or .tga files it will give a `targa specific error exporting file "XXXXXX.TGA" image must be 24 bit direct color, or just an error. If you try to use dosbox, the mouse will not work so you can't click on a frame to export it.

Dosbox

Hotkeys:

Load .ani file: ctrl+L

Find a frame: ctrl+alt+F

Export .tga frame: ctrl+E

Ripping Sprites

The most proper way would be to get each frame natively exported as a .tga but it seems that is broken so the next most proper way is to get a raw dump of the framebuffer or use a hex editor. Either way the simplest way for me was to copy the screen to the clipboard and paste in gimp and then save it accordingly.