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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.



Bee 52

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

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.