NES Palette

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And then you have Mario Maker's NES Mario sprite which is a pretty good blend of the two, haha.

There really isn't a NES palette better than any other. Even Nintendo hasn't been consistent with their color choice in more modern representations of NES games (WarioWare's NES Mario has completely different colors from Animal Crossing's NES Mario, for example) so that's not really a great reference point either. Picking an emulator and sticking with whatever palette it utilizes is as close as anything will be.

I understand that in a GBA game the colors are not the corrects, the GBA still have colors limitations, but in the GameCube i dont think so, in Mario Maker they put the best color, i mean, they dont have limitations on Wii U so they can choose the best colors for Mario, just look Sonic in Mario Maker, that cant be on a real nes... the best references games i found are Animal Crossing and Nes Remix... yes, i dont trust the virtual console, in virtual console everything is too dark... btw, the Zelda 1 from Collector Edition and Zelda 1 from Animal Crossing have the same palette, so i prefer trus that palette, i know that doesnt exist a real nes palette, but i prefer chose one that nintendo made...