Alister, you can't imagine how much time you just saved me, and how happy this makes me.

edit: works like a charm (haven't done transparency for VGA images so that's still broken here) - I must have a really juvenile mind cause that second sprite looks very suss.

And no, it's not available for download yet - think a month or two. On the other hand, if I could write a sprite ripper/viewer in under an hour and a half, I'm sure someone here could take it upon themselves to make one up - I'm seriously swamped at the moment. It'd make people happy.