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| FF Adventure/Sword of Mana Sprites | 1 | 3 | individual sprites | One of the only sources of Sword of Mana sprites, ripped by my friend Alex. It also has sprites from the Gameboy version (Final Fantasy Adventure). |
| Laura's Sprites Archive | 3 | 3 | individual sprites | Hasn't been updated in years. |
| Sprite Database | 5 | 3.5 | sprite sheets | Site is easy to navigate and loads quickly. |
| Spriter's Resource, The | 5 | 3 | sprite sheets | This site sometimes loads slowly, but it's worth the wait. |
| Super Sprites! | 4 | 1 | individual sprites | Primarily covers Japanese SNES games. |
| Tatakau - Game Sprites and Picture Gallery | 4 | 2 | individual sprites | A few of the games are covered more thoroughly than the depth rating of 2 would indicate. There are some nice large sprites that aren't found anywhere else. |
| Creative Uncut | Awesome collection of high-resolution RPG illustration art (among other RPG multimedia). Best of all, there are no annoying logos or watermarks on their images. Be sure to check out their forum! |
| FantasyAnime | My friend's site, which covers classic gaming and anime. This site has so many cool things that it's difficult to describe in one paragraph. It includes multimedia for popular and fan-translated RPGs. It also has an excellent emulation tutorial that covers all of the best emulators. Don't forget to stop by the forum! |
| Final Fantasy Kingdom | Growing coverage of the Final Fantasy series. Includes information such as characters, magic, equipment, monsters, maps, etc. |
| Random ROMs Forums | Emulation downloads and forum. |
| Super Nintendo Classics | Various SNES-related content, such as emulators, ROMs, Flash games, cheats, and reviews. |
| Video Game Fan Art | A growing fan-art archive. |
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| Beyond the Pixelz | 2 | 2.5 | sprite sheets | Many of the poses are labeled, which is quite helpful. |
| Bogleech.com's Ghastly Game Sprite Archive | 4 | 3 | individual sprites | Specializes in monsters from science fiction and horror games. |
| Fattyboy.com | 2 | 3 | sprite sheets | The few characters that are covered tend to have multiple poses. |
| GSA: Game Sprite Archives | 5 | 3 | individual sprites | Navigation is quite tedious due to over-organization; it takes many clicks to get where you want. |
| NES and SNES Sprites | 5 | 3.5 | sprite sheets | Great coverage of NES and SNES games. |
| People's Sprites, The | 5 | 4 | sprite sheets | |
| Pixel Perfect | 2 | 3.5 | individual sprites | This site appears to have been abandoned. Navigation is tedious due to the fact that you have to click a link to see each individual image. |
| Pixel Warehouse | 4 | 2 | individual sprites | Primarily covers SEGA Master System and Genesis games. |
| Ren's Comic Zone | 4 | 4 | sprite sheets | Poorly organized but still worth visiting. It has some rare Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy: Dawn of Souls images. It even has some backgrounds. |
| Retrogamezone | 5 | 3 | sprite sheets | This site may not exist for much longer, as the webmaster is considering shutting the site down. |
| RPG Icons | 4 | 3.5 | individual sprites | Excellent collection, although the site has not been updated in years. (Despite the name of the site, there are no Windows icons.) |
| Scrollboss | 4 | 3 | individual sprites | Primarily covers classic side-scrollers like Double Dragon and Golden Axe. |
| Shyguy Kingdom, The | 5 | 4 | sprite sheets | One of the best sprite galleries. Lately, the site has exceeded its bandwidth limit, which causes the sprite site to shut down temporarily. |
| SNES GIFs and Sprites | 2 | 1.5 | individual sprites | Hardly worth your time except for a few animated images. |
| Sprite Library | 4 | 3 | sprite sheets in ZIP files | Nice coverage of Square Enix games. There are backgrounds for some games. The large ZIP files take a long time to download. Many sprite sheets appear to have been taken from other sprite galleries, such as The Shyguy Kingdom and Game Sprite Archives. |
| SPRITEaholic | 5 | 3.5 | mix | Formerly known as Fated Circle Online. Some games are covered more thoroughly than others. |
| SpritePimp.com | 3 | 1 | individual sprites | This site claims to have custom sprites. I don't include custom sprite galleries, but the "custom sprites" on this site consist solely of original sprites with speech bubbles. |
| Video Game Sprites | 3 | 2 | individual sprites | Not to be confused with VideoGameSprites.net. |
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| Final Fantasy Characters | 1 | 5 | individual sprites | While this site is primarily intended as an informational site about FF1, it has all of the characters and enemies. (Scroll down to see the NPCs.) |
| Fire Emblem | 1 | 2 | individual sprites | Fire Emblem (GBA version) status portraits. |
| Golden Sun Sprites | 1 | 5 | ZIP files | Exhaustive coverage of Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age. |
| MrP's Castlevania Realm | 2 | 3.5 | individual sprites | Although this is not a sprite gallery, you can find most of the characters and enemies here. |
| PureZC | 3 | 2.5 | sprite sheets | Primarily dedicated to the Zelda series. Most sprites are customized/modified images, but it may not be obvious which are originals and which are customs until you click them. Very poorly organized. |
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| Background HQ | 5 | 4.5 | individual backgrounds | A wonderful collection of backgrounds from many classic games. |
| Sprite Database | 5 | 3 | background sheets | Site is easy to navigate and loads quickly. |
| Super Nintendo Game Maps | 1 | 2 | individual backgrounds | |
| VGMapper | 5 | 2 | individual backgrounds | Covers GBA, N64, PC, PS1, SNES, and Nintendo Wii. There are also a few sprite sheets, usually under the "Junk" heading. |
| VGMaps.com | 5 | 4 | individual backgrounds | Covers a wide variety of consoles; also covers PC and arcade. |