Screenshots Gallery
For pixeltao's NES Palette (version 1)
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Click here to return to the main page. 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). “Setting out on a quest to find a faithful NES palette is a first step towards madness.” —pixeltao (a.k.a. Jonathan Lavigne)
Truer words were never spoken. I myself know this all too well, but hey: it only took me This is the first version he made. It's pretty good, though the brightnesses of some of the blues make Metroid look quite flat. :( To quote the full blog post: “Setting out on a quest to find a faithful NES palette is a first step towards madness. Because the NES used YIQ color color space rather than RGB there’s no such thing as an official NES palette (except maybe the PlayChoice-10 palette which looks nothing like what you get on a NES hooked up to a CRT TV). In addition to that, different brands/models of CRT TVs would decode the YIQ signal differently from one another. Consequently, NES palettes you can find on the internet are either arbitrary artistic representations or have been generated using some color space conversion algorithm. Even though there are already many great NES palettes available (like the Unsaturated-V6), I could never find one that could reproduce the vivid colors of my own CRT TV (a slick 27-inch JVC TV). So I took the “artistic“ approach to create one using my Asus tablet with my CRT TV side by side. I sampled 50+ NES games and methodically set each color of the palette manually in Nestopia. The downside of this method is that monitor calibration can affect the result, but after testing it on a few different monitors, I’m pretty happy with it. If you’d like to try it, you can download it here: |
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Bee 52
In the level shown in the last screenshot, the trunk of the tree and the bottoms of the fence posts are missing.
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Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt
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Adventure Island II
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Adventures of Lolo 2
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Battle Chess
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Super Mario Bros. 3
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Adventures of Lolo 3
If the animation sticks, just wait a few seconds. It SHOULD restart. :)
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Battletoads
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Bucky O'Hare
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Dragon Warrior
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Metroid
If the animation sticks, just wait a few seconds. It SHOULD restart. :)
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Dragon Warrior III
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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
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The Legend of Zelda
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Dragon Warrior IV
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Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
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Solstice: Quest for
the Staff of Demnos
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Monster in My Pocket
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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
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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.