Screenshots Gallery

For Nintendo's PlayChoice-10 RGB 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).

What's this? A palette that's actually almost worse than NESticle's?? And a palette that was officially used in actual NES arcade machines between 1985 and 1991, no less!

I never thought I'd say this, but… I think NESticle's palette is only slightly worse than Nintendo's PlayChoice-10 palette. I rag on that palette a lot, though; other people might think this palette is worse than NESticle's — and they, too, would be correct. :D

If you want to learn more about the PlayChoice-10 arcade machines, there's a blog post on Nerdly Pleasures that has plenty of info about them — including a listing of every game released on the PlayChoice-10! :)

This palette was/is selectable in NEStopia's "Video Settings" as the "RGB" palette. Please do correct me if I'm wrong about this also being the most-common PlayChoice-10/V.S. System palette, though.



Bee 52


The Immortal

The RGB palette can't handle Color Emphasis; all Emphasized colors are replaced with pure white. :(


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.