haroldo-ok
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1 year ago Hello, there. ;)
Yes, it would be possible; the main problem there would be to write a conversion tool that separates the palettes for each individual frame; rgbquant-sms, which is already being used by the video conversion tool, can kinda do it, but not really:
- It would have to be adapted to support the Sega Genesis Palette (for now, I'm using SMS palette):
- Issue: https://github.com/haroldo-ok/RgbQuant-SMS.js/issues/3
- Unfinished experiment: https://github.com/haroldo-ok/RgbQuant-SMS.js/tree/more-palettes
- Also, while rgbquant-sms has support for multi-palette conversion, it does not seem to work very well, and would probably have to be further polished;
- Finally, SGDK's "RESCOMP" tool does not seem to be able to convert images with multiple palettes, meaning that it would probably be necessary to create a custom tool to convert the individual frames into a format that Genesis can use;
An alternative would be to completely skip rgbquant-sms and RESCOMP and create a tool to convert the graphics; it would have be able to:
- Reduce the tile count;
- Use all 4 Genesis palettes;
- Convert the output into a format that Genesis can digest, proably with compression.
Hi Haroldo. Greetings from Argentina. I'm following your project. I love the idea of having a video player for intros and cinematics. Also I'm implementing an algorithm which produces up to 60 colors (4 palettes, 15 color per palette, 1 transparent color per palette), but I'm not quite familiar with the internals of Genesis arquitecture yet.
Is there a way to adapt your code in order to accept frames with 4 palettes?