diff --git a/src/loaders/spritesheetParser.js b/src/loaders/spritesheetParser.js
index 172644d..8bf810d 100644
--- a/src/loaders/spritesheetParser.js
+++ b/src/loaders/spritesheetParser.js
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 {
     return function (resource, next)
     {
+        var resourcePath;
         var imageResourceName = resource.name + '_image';
 
         // skip if no data, its not json, it isn't spritesheet data, or the image resource already exists
@@ -23,10 +24,18 @@
             metadata: resource.metadata.imageMetadata
         };
 
-        var route = path.dirname(resource.url.replace(this.baseUrl, ''));
+        // Prepend url path unless the resource image is a data url
+        if (resource.isDataUrl) 
+        {
+            resourcePath = resource.data.meta.image;
+        } 
+        else 
+        {
+            resourcePath = path.dirname(resource.url.replace(this.baseUrl, '')) + '/' + resource.data.meta.image;
+        }
 
         // load the image for this sheet
-        this.add(imageResourceName, route + '/' + resource.data.meta.image, loadOptions, function (res)
+        this.add(imageResourceName, resourcePath, loadOptions, function (res)
         {
             resource.textures = {};