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9 years ago Hey, I make homebrew NES games so of course I gotta comment here. There isn't
really such thing as a perfect RGB palette for NES for technical reasons. For
what my opinion is worth, YY-CHR's palette actually isn't close either, though.
I made this image a while ago to show the woes of trying to create NES
graphics: http://i.imgur.com/X0WVoCN.png That's an identical scene from a quick
rom I made in a bunch of different emulators. (Credit where credit is due. The
graphics themselves are adapted from a mockup by ptoing that can be found here:
http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/80652.htm)I could also take a picture of
this same scene on my TV on a real NES and it'd still be different...
Anyway, if recommendations are being made I recommend this palette:
http://bisqwit.iki.fi/utils/nespalette.php
Here is a topic of the work that went into the palette generator to make it as
accurate as possible: http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8209
The colors it generates by default are the closest to what my actual NES
displays on most TVs I've tried it on. There are eight palettes because the NES
has 3 bits that control which colors (R, G, or B) are "emphasized" in the
palette. The top is nothing emphasized as most games have it. (Which is all
that should be included in the palette, or people will mix colors from
differently emphasized palettes.) This is the palette I use to make graphics
for my homebrew games, and even though it's the most accurate I've found, I
still sometimes choose colors and then see how different they look on the
actual console and every emulator... That's the road. Then, NES in PAL regions
has a much brighter and saturated palette. You can't win.
Anyway, that was quite a rant. TL;DR: Dude who makes NES homebrew recommends
this one: http://bisqwit.iki.fi/utils/nespalette.php Original comment by kirby...@gmail.com on 11 Jun 2014 at 1:21
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