Pokemon invade the Sporepedia

by Ross Miller { Jun 26th 2008 at 4:05PM }

Sure, Will Wright's Spore Creature Creator can let your imagination run wild ... but sometimes your imagination doesn't exactly go that far. Our friends at Nintendo Wii Fanboy have amassed a collection of Pokemon creatures from the Sporepedia. Each picture in the gallery can be added directly to your game by saving the picture into the Spore folder. Our Sporémons, let us show you them.

Tags: pokemon, spore, sporepedia

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

PojoMofo @ Jun 26th 2008 4:08PM

I am now waiting for the first pics of Dickachu

or Penischu, whichever you prefer

Neebs @ Jun 26th 2008 4:24PM

Pikacock

Mike @ Jun 26th 2008 8:13PM

Pikachode I think would be the correct term.

Levi @ Jun 26th 2008 10:06PM

There are plenty of candidates in this weeks Something Awful Comedy Goldmine:

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/goons-spore-creature.php

tc @ Jun 26th 2008 4:10PM

Psyduck looks baked

007craft @ Jun 26th 2008 4:11PM

im still waiting for the full version so i can start making. I dont want to use the demo because I hate building stuff with limited parts.

Like in smash bros how you had to build 30 levels or soemthing before you got all the parts. So dumb. I hate limitations.

Microswirl (MKWii:1676- 4270-3674) @ Jun 26th 2008 4:27PM

SSBB's map maker is STILL extremely limited, even after you get all the parts. I never use it anymore, not enough variety.

RESISTANCE @ Jun 26th 2008 4:12PM

those are really good representations.

Dragod @ Jun 26th 2008 4:34PM

I made a Mudkip and a Seaking... Slowpoke didn't work too well with the limited selection of parts.

Jhongerkong @ Jun 26th 2008 6:52PM

The aforementioned gallery begs to differ

Mike @ Jun 26th 2008 8:11PM

I had made a Slowpoke that I was sad to see omitted as I thought it was superior to the one in this gallery. After looking back at it maybe it was my choice of mouth that tipped the scales, but my newly revised Slowpoke is definitely the best out there.

http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=ast-500003635278%3Asast-500003635278

NukeAssault @ Jun 26th 2008 4:43PM

That Golem one is pretty badass. =D

Mike @ Jun 26th 2008 8:13PM

That one stood out the most to me as well.

eNrique @ Jun 26th 2008 4:49PM

Magicarp rules the world!!!

majikarp @ Jun 26th 2008 5:21PM

Karp karp....

This is pretty cool...maybe I should get that creature creator because I [sarcasm] need to waste time on things instead of finish up all my other projects [/sarcasm]

Mr.ESC @ Jun 26th 2008 5:11PM

AAAAAHHHH Kill them with fire!

Pokemon = cute.
Spore + Pokemon = Nightmares.

JerJer @ Jun 26th 2008 5:18PM

that goldeen was phenomenal

Jonah Falcon @ Jun 26th 2008 5:21PM

Meh. There's also creatures from The Future is Wild (futureiswild tag), and about a billion Chocobos.

poke50uk @ Jun 26th 2008 5:33PM

yay... plug time :P

Regigigas
http://ll-219.ea.com/spore/static/thumb/500/003/219/500003219559.png

Heatran
http://ll-238.ea.com/spore/static/thumb/500/003/238/500003238425.png

Breloom
http://ll-231.ea.com/spore/static/thumb/500/003/231/500003231196.png

poke50uk @ Jun 26th 2008 5:33PM

Mewtwo
http://ll-201.ea.com/spore/static/thumb/500/003/201/500003201411.png

Giratina
http://ll-207.ea.com/spore/static/thumb/500/003/207/500003207703.png

Jon @ Jun 26th 2008 6:40PM

Where the heck is Picachu ???

Josh @ Jun 26th 2008 7:13PM

"Each picture in the gallery can be added directly to your game by saving the picture into the Spore folder."

Wait, are you serious? You just save the JPEG and suddenly you have the full creature in your game?

Jonah Falcon @ Jun 26th 2008 7:17PM

It's a PNG file, but yes. You click on the Download, then right-click save the pic. You drag the pic into the Spore CC, and it's in the Everything file.

Keep in mind, every creature's file size is 4-20KB. The magic of procedural generation.

Josh @ Jun 26th 2008 7:20PM

Well, they're JPEGs at Nintendo Wii Fanboy. Does that mean they won't work?

Jonah Falcon @ Jun 26th 2008 7:28PM

Um, no. PNG files. The Wii has nothing to do with this version of Spore anyway. (That "Wii version" isn't a port of the PC/Mac Spore. It doesn't have the hardware to handle it in the first place.)

Josh @ Jun 26th 2008 7:37PM

...

The link above...To the gallery of pictures...Leads to...The blog known as Nintendo Wii Fanboy...and...The images in that gallery...are JPEGS...

...

Will @ Jun 26th 2008 9:44PM

The jpegs probably don't work, but it's a possibility. You can store extra data in a jpeg because photo viewing programs only search the beginning of a file for photo information. If it stops being a photo they ignore the end, meaning you can attach extra info.

Fun fact, rar files actually read from behind first, so you can merge a jpeg and a rar file using the copy command in command prompt. As long as the jpeg is first the file will appear to be, and open as, a normal jpeg. You can -also- open it with WinRAR or 7Zip and access the hidden data.

Josh @ Jun 26th 2008 9:47PM

Oh, OK, but that's still really really cool. So, how exactly does Spore import the creature from just a PNG? The same extra-data-at-the-end thing?

Will @ Jun 26th 2008 9:53PM

Honestly I don't know, but that'd be my guess =]

I've always known PNGs to include extra data because that's what Fireworks uses. Fireworks used to be owned by Macromedia and was a competitor with Photoshop, only a little more web designed base. While Photoshop used .PSDs ("photoshop documents") Fireworks took a different route and used .PNGs for their saved projects. The advantage was .PNG was already a widely used format so everyone without Fireworks could still view them (although they were kind of larger than normal pictures.. obviously). Fireworks is owned by Adobe now, but I think they still use PNGs.

ANYWAY. PNGs have always been used to contain extra data, I'm just saying it's possible with either file format under the right conditions. If I had to guess I'd say their jpegs don't contain anything extra.. I'm just pointing out it's not outside the realm of possibility =]

Will @ Jun 26th 2008 10:02PM

Just did a test you might find interesting, I went to the Spore site and copied a png which also had the creature's data inside (for loading into Spore..) and noticed the file size was 28KB for a 128x128 pixel .PNG

Then I copied only the pixel data into Photoshop and resaved it as a PNG. The only differences were there was no creature data and also I didn't bother to make the background transparent. The new file was 20KB. Supposedly that means the extra, hidden data only accounts for around 8KB per creature