Back Sprites 48x48 (Like GEN 2)

home\pics.asm:

...
; de: destination location
LoadMonFrontSprite::
	push de
	ld hl, wMonHFrontSprite - wMonHeader
	call UncompressMonSprite
	ld hl, wMonHSpriteDim
	ld a, [hli]
+LoadUncompressedBackSprite::
	ld c, a
	pop de
	; fall through
; postprocesses uncompressed sprite chunks to a 2bpp sprite and loads it into video ram
; calculates alignment parameters to place both sprite chunks in the center of the 7*7 tile sprite buffers
; de: destination location
; a,c:  sprite dimensions (in tiles of 8x8 each)
LoadUncompressedSpriteData::
...

engine\movie\hall_of_fame.asm:

...
	ld de, RedPicBack
	ld a, BANK(RedPicBack)
	call UncompressSpriteFromDE
-	predef ScaleSpriteByTwo
+	ld a, $66
	ld de, vBackPic
-	call InterlaceMergeSpriteBuffers
+	push de
+	jp LoadUncompressedBackSprite
+	nop
	ld c, $1

HoFLoadMonPlayerPicTileIDs
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engine\battle\core.asm:

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	ld a, BANK(RedPicBack)
	ASSERT BANK(RedPicBack) == BANK(OldManPicBack)
	call UncompressSpriteFromDE
-	predef ScaleSpriteByTwo
+	call LoadBackSpriteUnzoomed
	ld hl, wShadowOAM
	xor a
	ldh [hOAMTile], a ; initial tile number
...
...
	ld e, a
	dec b
	jr nz, .loop
-	ld de, vBackPic
-	call InterlaceMergeSpriteBuffers
	ld a, $a
	ld [MBC1SRamEnable], a
	xor a
...
...
	call ClearScreenArea
	ld hl,  wMonHBackSprite - wMonHeader
	call UncompressMonSprite
-	predef ScaleSpriteByTwo
-	ld de, vBackPic
-	call InterlaceMergeSpriteBuffers ; combine the two buffers to a single 2bpp sprite
+	call LoadBackSpriteUnzoomed
	ld hl, vSprites
	ld de, vBackPic
	ld c, (2*SPRITEBUFFERSIZE)/16 ; count of 16-byte chunks to be copied
...
...

+LoadBackSpriteUnzoomed:
+	ld a, $66
+	ld de, vBackPic
+	push de
+	jp LoadUncompressedBackSprite