Screenshots Gallery

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

This screenshot was modified to show both parts of the rainbow simultaneously; it looks pretty much exactly the same as actual hardware -- just less flickery.

Battletoads

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

Bucky O'Hare

Dragon Warrior

Metroid

This screenshot was modified to simultaneously show both the background and the platform upon which Samus is standing; it looks pretty much exactly the same as actual hardware -- just less flickery.

Dragon Warrior III

Legendary Wings

The Legend of Zelda

Dragon Warrior IV

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

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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.