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For FCEUX 2.2.3's NES Palette

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These screenshots were generated by NEStopia; if you see any oddities at the top and/or bottom, that's because NEStopia's screenshots ignore overscan clip settings, thus showing the top and bottom 8 pixels that are normally hidden on an NTSC television (and in most emulators).

From what I can tell, the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console NES games seem to use this exact same palette — except dimmed a little (id est: the 'White' color is now a pale gray, and everything else is dimmed by the same amount (presumably to mitigate seizures and such)).

FCEUX's palette does appear to match up with the PAL NES palette — rather than the NTSC NES palette — but as I myself live in an NTSC region, I find FCEUX's palette to be quite ugly in certain ways; if a game relied on the darker/darkest $x8 colors for a shade of green (because $x8 ranges from a greenish-yellow (for the brighter colors) to an olive-green (for the darker colors) in NTSC regions), guaranteed this palette — in which those colors are closer to brown — has made whatever grass/foliage look dead.

(R.I.P. Ragnarok's Canyon (Battletoads's first level) and the battlefield from Battle Chess.)



Bee 52

Note how in the last screenshot, the fence lacks details, and the tree's trunk is non-existant.

The Immortal

If you thought Bee 52's lack of details was bad, just look at The Immortal. It's missing huge amounts of its details!

Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt


Adventure Island II


Adventures of Lolo 2


Battle Chess


Super Mario Bros. 3


Adventures of Lolo 3

If the animation sticks, just wait a few seconds. It SHOULD restart. :)

Battletoads

This is my personal favorite line from Professor T. Bird.

Bucky O'Hare


Dragon Warrior


Metroid

If the animation sticks, just wait a few seconds. It SHOULD restart. :)

Dragon Warrior III


Legendary Wings

The last vertical-scrolling level uses $11 and $12 in a way that creates a really cool texture when playing the game on actual hardware and on a CRT TV. :D

The Legend of Zelda


Dragon Warrior IV


Zelda II: The Adventure of Link


Solstice: Quest for
the Staff of Demnos


Monster in My Pocket


Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The alligator boss at the end of the rafting level uses two greens ($19 and $1A) that, on my actual NES Control Deck, are
almost indistinguishable — but they do add a cool texture due to the composite artefacting! :D
Avoid the lighter ink blasts! The darker ones will ink you up, but the LIGHTER ones will INSTANTLY KILL YOU. To be honest, I never knew there even WERE two different colors until I really studied this game for screenshots.

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All games whose images are upon this page belong to their respective creators. I'm simply using images from the games to demonstrate the palettes that I and others have made.