Scratch

I have a good tutorial for ripping sprites on a Windows XP computer. Here it is...

1) Find the sprites you want to rip. Anything from Mario to Samus, it's up to you!
Some good sites are TSR or MK Warehouse.(MKW for MK sprites)

2) Right click and select "Save As". Save somewhere where you can find the file easly.

3) Open Paint. This is found under Start --> All Programs --> Accessories. It should be the 8th one from the top.

4) Click File --> Open in Paint

5) Find your sprite sheet and then click Open

6) Click the dashed box on the left side of the window. It's the upper-right option

7) select the sprites you want to get out of the image

8) Just like #2, right click and select "Copy to..." and then save as a 256-bitmap file(otherwise you cant open the image in Scratch) in your location of choice.

9) Open Scratch if you haven't done so.

10) Select the option to "get sprite from file". Find your ripped sprite and open It

11) Change the image however you want(mostly to make the backround of the sprite invisible)

12) Goto costumes and then copy the sprite

13) Change the newly copied sprite to another ripped sprite. This is done by -
In the costumes menu: click copy and them edit on newly copied sprite
In the Paint Editor: click "Clear" then "Import". Find your sprite then click "open"

14) Repeat 11 through 13 as desired

Well now you know how to rip Sprites.