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For NESticle 0.42'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).

Ahh, NESticle — how almost nobody misses you.

NESticle is a relic of a bygone age, the age of primitive emulation attempts. In its day, it was the king: the fastest NES emulator around, even if it was by far the least accurate of them. You could also edit sprite graphics and background tiles, and make your own custom palette for whatever game; some NES ROM hacks relied on using a special custom palette — and if you didn't use that palette, the game would look wrong.

Nowadays, however, I can't actually load any ROMs in NESticle 0.42 — but it's not for lack of trying. The problem lies in the fact that NESticle only opens JNES-headered ROMs, and most — if not all — NES ROMs these days use INES headers.

But I digress. Onto the screenshots!



Bee 52

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

The Immortal

If I could load The Immortal in NESticle, it might look like this. Sadly, as I never acquired a JNES-headered ROM of The Immortal, it's unlikely that I'll ever be able to find out what NESticle would do with Color Emphasis. :(

Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt


Adventure Island II


Adventures of Lolo 2


Battle Chess

Some shading in the title letters and on the swords and helmet is now pink — because… NESticle decided $3D should be pink. ¯\(º_O)/¯

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.