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Post by Sarge on Mar 28, 2019 11:29:03 GMT -5
Interesting articles from a modern team working on NES stuff. megacatstudios.com/blogs/press/creating-nes-graphicsmegacatstudios.com/blogs/press/sprite-layering-on-the-nesAnyway, stock NES had a limit of four colors per sprite, although one will always be transparent. NES has four palettes for sprites, four for background. That effectively gives 12 colors for sprites. Background palettes apply to 16x16 chunks, but the MMC5 gets that to 8x8. SMS, by contrast, has a 16-color palette for sprites, and a 16-color one for backgrounds. It's not a huge jump, but NES creators had to be a lot more creative with how they used the sprites to get some modicum of color out of them. The 16-color setup is a lot more flexible.
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Post by Xeogred on Mar 28, 2019 21:51:25 GMT -5
I'll always love that a lot of NES action games had pure black backgrounds, it really adds this awesome grit and vibe a lot of times that you simply never got again in the 16bit era.
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Post by anayo on Apr 16, 2019 4:42:39 GMT -5
I dreamed I was playing a virtual reality Metroid Prime game. I got locked in an arena with an aggressive centaur-like creature who kept charging at me with a spear. He would crash into the wall and get stuck, then I'd whittle down his health with missiles. My mom and my aunt were watching me play on a nearby TV screen. It held their interest for a while, then they got bored and wanted to do something else.
Also: I just remembered exactly one week ago I dreamed I got a new Smash Bros game for Gameboy Color. But it was a polygonal Smash Bros game full of characters that didn't exist during the Gameboy Color era. The way it worked was that the game cartridge had a very powerful processor inside and it just used the GBC as a very low-resolution display monitor. I sat down to play some Smash Bros, then noticed on the main menu that Dark Souls was one of the menu options. So I played that. The main character was a demon with a full auto shotgun flying through a volcano. I've never played a Dark Souls game in real life so I think my brain just made something up.
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Post by Sarge on Apr 16, 2019 8:30:32 GMT -5
anayo: Sounds legit to me.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2019 3:33:13 GMT -5
The main character was a demon with a full auto shotgun flying through a volcano. I've never played a Dark Souls game in real life so I think my brain just made something up. Sounds like Doom Souls.
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Post by anayo on May 13, 2019 5:56:43 GMT -5
6-7 April (0630)
I was at a thrift store with Mom where I found an Atari Jaguar and a lime green Nintendo 64. I was going to ask an employee for a price check because they had no price stickers.
I guess this is kind of cheating because N64 and Atari Jaguar both exist in real life. However I don't own the latter in real life.
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Post by Ex on May 13, 2019 8:27:57 GMT -5
6-7 April (0630)I was at a thrift store with Mom where I found an Atari Jaguar and a lime green Nintendo 64. I was going to ask an employee for a price check because they had no price stickers.I guess this is kind of cheating because N64 and Atari Jaguar both exist in real life. However I don't own the latter in real life.
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Post by anayo on May 13, 2019 17:07:58 GMT -5
6-7 April (0630)I was at a thrift store with Mom where I found an Atari Jaguar and a lime green Nintendo 64. I was going to ask an employee for a price check because they had no price stickers.I guess this is kind of cheating because N64 and Atari Jaguar both exist in real life. However I don't own the latter in real life. Wow, those are really vibrant. The N64 in my dream was more like the Kiwi Gameboy Color. I remember when the DK jungle green variant came out, but I don't think there was ever a Kiwi N64. Or really any Nintendo console with as many colors as the GBC.
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Post by Ex on May 13, 2019 20:21:13 GMT -5
I remember when the DK jungle green variant came out Are you talking about this? I don't think I've seen a nuclear green colored N64 either. The Fire Orange and Watermelon Red variations are likely the most vibrant.
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Post by anayo on May 15, 2019 6:01:17 GMT -5
I remember when the DK jungle green variant came out Are you talking about this? I don't think I've seen a nuclear green colored N64 either. The Fire Orange and Watermelon Red variations are likely the most vibrant. Yeah that's what I'm talking about. But I remember it as the Donkey Kong 64 bundle that included the game, the see-through green N64, and an expansion pak. It came out around 2000 or so. Although for all I know that color variant of the N64 may have already been available as a separate release.
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