08-02-2013, 08:37 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-02-2013, 08:42 AM by Sketchasaurus.)
(08-02-2013, 08:18 AM)##SKELETON## Wrote: there's actually a robot fighting game on the NES that's japanese only that has sprites with way more colors, because it treats the head body and legs as separate entities. lemme look it up
If I remember correctly, the same thing is happening with the player sprites in Shatterhand; the player's upper torso uses black, lime green, and a fleshy pink and his legs use black, light blue, and white.
EDIT: Now, as I'm looking at sprites from Punch-out, the same seems to be true of that game as well.
Now I'm looking at the palette size of background tiles; I read somewhere that they are capable of 4 usable colors, but I don't know if they also support transparency.