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For thefox's NTSC NES Palette

Made using a Terratec Cinergy Hybrid T USB XS device

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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).

“Just for fun, I decided to try what kind of an NES palette I would get by capturing from my el cheapo USB capture stick (Terratec Cinergy Hybrid T USB XS). I wrote a ROM to display all of the colors one after another, ran the ROM on my NTSC NES and PAL NES, captured a video with VirtualDub, and ran an AviSynth script to generate a palette picture.

“Capture format was YUY2 (the stick doesn't support anything else), losslessly compressed with Lagarith (probably didn't help much). Settings (brightness/contrast/hue/saturation/sharpness) were at defaults.”

This is the NTSC version of thefox's palette.

My palette:

• Kizul's Definitive NTSC NES Palette

Old emulator palettes:

• FCEUX
• RockNES X 2.0 Final
• BioNES 0.2 • NESten 0.61 Beta

• loopynes 10/18/99 • NESticle 0.42 • FWNES 0.302 • rew.

NEStopia-specific palettes:

• YUV (15º Canonical) • YUV (Alternate)

Official Nintendo palettes:

• PlayChoice-10 Arcade Machines (RGB) • NES Classic Edition

FirebrandX's palettes:

• Composite Direct • PVM Style D93 • Smooth

Pixeltao's palettes:

• pixeltaoNES Version 1 • pixeltaoNES Version 2

thefox's palettes:

• TerraTec Cinergy Hybrid T USB XS, NTSC • TerraTec Cinergy Hybrid T USB XS, PAL

Other palettes:

• SONY CXA
(author unknown) • Wavebeam
(by Nakedarthur)

More palette examples to be added soon.

Bee 52

As usual, this palette erroneously uses pure black for all of the blacks — instead of only for $0D (with off-blacks for the $1D, $xE, and $xF entries in its palette) — thus hiding background details in certain levels that would be visible on a CRT with an actual NES hooked up to it.

In the level shown in the last screenshot, the trunk of the tree and the bottoms of the fence posts are missing.

Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt

Adventure Island II

Adventures of Lolo 2

Battle Chess

Super Mario Bros. 3

Adventures of Lolo 3

Battletoads

Bucky O'Hare

Dragon Warrior

Metroid

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.