If I remember correctly, the only available way to rip the background is to intercept OpenGL calls, and that usually results in capturing hundreds of 16 x 16 tiles, and putting them together to form the original background is a puzzle best left to masochists...
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
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