01-30-2012, 04:29 PM
OK, so I today I went and downloaded the latest Gens release, which according to Yawackhary was the only emu that showed the Mega Drive's true palettes. I compared a screenshot of it with my sprites and saw that the palettes are indeed quite off. I still couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do to correct this, so I went off on a search to find out if there is any way in hell I could disable layers in Gens.
Well, I found something called Gens/GS. It's basically a version of Gens some guys made that adds heaps of extra features. Kinda like GensKMod, I think. Anyway, it had layer disabling via a plugin. I was distressed to find out that the original Gens doesn't support plugins (why, I have no idea), but I downloaded Gens/GS and checked it out. It worked pretty sweetly, and the layer disabling opened in a small window that stays on top, which is convenient. I compared a screenshot, but still saw that the palette was off. That was a real bummer.
However, soon after I discovered the Graphics -> Color Adjust... menu. In Gens, all you could do was make it grayscale, inverted, and change the brightness and contrast (which I didn't even think of fiddling with), but in Gens/GS there was also a "Color Scale" option. This was a dropdown box, which was by default set to "Full with S/H" (the other two options being "Full" and "Raw"). I had no idea what this meant, but I set it to "Raw" and checked it out. Still, the palettes weren't the same. But when I set it to "Full"...
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The same! Well, I'll be honest with you. In GIMP, the color chooser gave me ever-so-slightly different results. But these were super-duper tiny, and zoomed in at a billion percent the two pixels looked exactly the same. I figured that this is about as close as I was ever gonna get, and I'm sure that nobody will see any difference. Ever.
So there you go. I will delete Megasis, and over the next few days I shall be reripping my sprites. Mighty Jetters, I'll say when the Beach and Cove Enemies have been updated so that you can reupload them, and when Fonts is done you can do that too. Then I'll get on with some more enemies and probably bosses too.
These are the kinds of days I live for
Well, I found something called Gens/GS. It's basically a version of Gens some guys made that adds heaps of extra features. Kinda like GensKMod, I think. Anyway, it had layer disabling via a plugin. I was distressed to find out that the original Gens doesn't support plugins (why, I have no idea), but I downloaded Gens/GS and checked it out. It worked pretty sweetly, and the layer disabling opened in a small window that stays on top, which is convenient. I compared a screenshot, but still saw that the palette was off. That was a real bummer.
However, soon after I discovered the Graphics -> Color Adjust... menu. In Gens, all you could do was make it grayscale, inverted, and change the brightness and contrast (which I didn't even think of fiddling with), but in Gens/GS there was also a "Color Scale" option. This was a dropdown box, which was by default set to "Full with S/H" (the other two options being "Full" and "Raw"). I had no idea what this meant, but I set it to "Raw" and checked it out. Still, the palettes weren't the same. But when I set it to "Full"...
The same! Well, I'll be honest with you. In GIMP, the color chooser gave me ever-so-slightly different results. But these were super-duper tiny, and zoomed in at a billion percent the two pixels looked exactly the same. I figured that this is about as close as I was ever gonna get, and I'm sure that nobody will see any difference. Ever.
So there you go. I will delete Megasis, and over the next few days I shall be reripping my sprites. Mighty Jetters, I'll say when the Beach and Cove Enemies have been updated so that you can reupload them, and when Fonts is done you can do that too. Then I'll get on with some more enemies and probably bosses too.
These are the kinds of days I live for