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Title: What games used all 512 colors?
Post by: BigusSchmuck on October 25, 2013, 09:04:28 AM
Anyone? I know Parasol Stars comes into mind, maybe we can do a sticky on this...Perhaps categorize it as well..
Title: Re: What games used all 512 colors?
Post by: Necromancer on October 25, 2013, 09:50:15 AM
If you mean on one screen, there's none. It can't display quite its entire palette at once, and it likely wouldn't look very good if it did - like a unicorn puked rainbows all over the screen. The most colorful games (like Beyond Shadowgate, Tokimeki Memorial, and Tongueman's Logic) are in the 100-120 range.
*edit*
This (http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=3085.msg40369#msg40369) was the thread I was looking for. Unfortunately many of the links are broken now. :(
Title: Re: What games used all 512 colors?
Post by: nodtveidt on October 25, 2013, 10:08:41 AM
The maximum number of colors that can ever be displayed can be calculated:
Tiles: 15 uniques per palette *16 palettes + the common color = 241 Sprites: 15 uniques per palette * 16 palettes + overscan color = 241 241 + 241 = 482
So, 482 colors onscreen at once.
...I don't believe any game ever used this many colors. It'd be the ugliest game ever designed if one did.
Title: Re: What games used all 512 colors?
Post by: Nando on October 25, 2013, 10:30:09 AM
;)
Title: Re: What games used all 512 colors?
Post by: BigusSchmuck on October 25, 2013, 11:11:38 AM
If you mean on one screen, there's none. It can't display quite its entire palette at once, and it likely wouldn't look very good if it did - like a unicorn puked rainbows all over the screen. The most colorful games (like Beyond Shadowgate, Tokimeki Memorial, and Tongueman's Logic) are in the 100-120 range.
*edit*
This (http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=3085.msg40369#msg40369) was the thread I was looking for. Unfortunately many of the links are broken now. :(
Hey thanks, that should be stickied. :)
Title: Re: What games used all 512 colors?
Post by: esteban on October 25, 2013, 11:24:08 AM
Taste the rainbow.
Title: Re: What games used all 512 colors?
Post by: TheClash603 on October 25, 2013, 11:38:30 AM
482 colors FTW!
Makes even 481 colors seem like the developers were just lazy.
Title: Re: What games used all 512 colors?
Post by: Black Tiger on October 25, 2013, 11:46:29 AM
Parasol Stars doesn't have much shading. If it has high color counts at all it would be on screens with a variety of enemies.