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For Kizul's "Monolumatic" 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).

…So, this part of the page had been more entertaining when I'd first made it — but I accidentally overwrote this page with a different palette's gallery page, and
it's been too long for me to rewrite this one the way it'd been. :(

After making my Monochromatic palette, I immediately had a cursed thought: "What if I preserve the color, but average the Lightness across the entire palette — a 'monolumatic' palette, if you will."

…That's what this is. I'm really honest-and-truly not sure what possible use this palette could have — it might make an entertaining gameplay challenge to have to play the game with this atrocious nonsense —, or I suppose you could use it to check hues usage…?

Critics are raving!

  • "Its like you installed the NES palette into a game gear with a bad screen, its magnificent"

  • "…Ow."

  • "That IS cursed. Reminds me of the ancient TV I played my NES on as a kid long after the screen was burned out, except it was in black and white."

  • "oh, hey, s-video with a broken luma pin"

If you really want to, you can download this palette here.

Bee 52

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.