Talk:List of video game console palettes

Latest comment: 6 months ago by Polluks in topic Odyssey 2

Why no simulated images for the Genesis? --JohnDelano (talk) 04:41, 25 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

The simulated image for the SNES is markedly incorrect. SNES does not allow 'hot' colors, because it was designed for CRT TVs. Thus the brightest intensity is equivalent to 248, not 255. I had a link to a topic on wayofthepixel.net here, but Wikipedia has blacklisted it for some reason, so I'll have to paste a summary here instead

" It's easy to type hex SNES colors, because it only requires you to think of one thing:

You can type any digit in the first place, and only one of 0,8 in the second place. (so 3f3058 is okay; 333058 is not okay) "

Checking SNES screenshots also confirms the above. I can easily make a parrot image quantized to SNES colorspace, it's just a matter of figuring out how to upload it. --NeoTA —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.91.218.188 (talk) 10:39, 25 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

The nes image is incorrect, the Nes while having many colors could only ever display them in 8x8 blocks of pallets (4) --142.163.96.49 (talk) 02:55, 11 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

The gameboy color's 56 color restriction is not a hardware color restriction, it's a palette storage restriction, as such, special LCD controller LY==LYC and mode 2 IRQs can be utilized to generate more than 56 colors onscreen by changing out the palettes each scan line. Dubbed "high color" by the emulation community, even commerical games use this in their title screens, such as Atlantis and Cannon Fodder.

Coming soon: NES

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There's a discussion over at NESdev BBS to produce a picture that conforms to the limits of the Nintendo Entertainment System. I'll keep you posted once I have all the parameters used. --Damian Yerrick (talk) 16:50, 4 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

Incorrect GBC palettes

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The section about the Game Boy Color has some images with simulated palettes, but some are wrong.

I have taken a picture of my GBA SP (with my shoddy camera, so everything appears more bluish than it actually is) of the palette described as purple (Left + A during boot, using a Pokémon Red cart); it mostly renders pale blue. The colors are roughly the same on both of my GBC's, but pictures have even worse quality due to lack of back-lighting.

-46.193.64.84 (talk) 10:55, 10 September 2018 (UTC)Reply

NES

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The NES palette is very inaccurate. The YUV-V3 palette here appears to be the real NES palette (or as close as possible to the real palette). —pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 22:03, 3 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

For convenience, here they are side-by-side:
YUV-V3 / Current
00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2A 2B 2C 2D 2E 2F
30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 3A 3B 3C 3D 3E 3F
00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2A 2B 2C 2D 2E 2F
30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 3A 3B 3C 3D 3E 3F
Obviously these two are very different. I have no objection to changing this, but is there a reliable source? As that gametechwiki page explains, this is not a trivial issue. Without a source, any particular choice is somewhat subjective. Grayfell (talk) 22:48, 3 October 2019 (UTC)Reply
I want this changed. Many people have said that the NES doesn't have a good yellow, and I put the blame squarely on Wikipedia. This color palette seems to be taken from Nesticle, one of the oldest, and as such least accurate, NES emulators. What utter rubbish! Okay, sorry, I might be showing a bit much bias here... but still! This must be changed! The yellow gap calls out to us. 47.184.87.133 (talk) 08:23, 16 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

I changed the palette to Kizul's Definitive NTSC NES Master Palette. 47.184.87.133 (talk) 04:20, 17 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

It seems that the test chart for the NES section is still in Nesticle's colour palette. Someone might need to change that later... TreeNamedUser (talk) 02:36, 21 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

N64 (Nintendo 64) Palette

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Nintendo 64 in palette. Dillonlankford1991 (talk) 01:03, 15 December 2019 (UTC)Reply

yeah i think this one is quite important 2001:8003:B12B:A301:89CE:BF1C:B3ED:8E63 (talk) 20:40, 26 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

Nintendo 64 Palette

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What is palette in Nintendo 64? Dillonlankford1991 (talk) 01:06, 15 December 2019 (UTC)Reply

It's 24-bits RGB. You can also opt for 32-bits YUV: 16-bits for Y (No I do not know why either) and 8-bits for each of U and V. TreeNamedUser (talk) 04:16, 28 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

DawnBringer Palette Analysis

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I've thought about using DawnBringer (DB) colour palette analyses instead of the ones we have right now. It's a lot more sophisticated than what we have.

Online software to generate palette analyses is hosted at the web site Lospec.

What do you guys think?

TreeNamedUser (talk) 20:50, 21 November 2020 (UTC)Reply

Atari Parrot

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Why is the "simulated" parrot image in the Atari 2600 section stretched? — Preceding unsigned comment added by TreeNamedUser (talkcontribs) 02:02, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Odyssey 2

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The 8245 palette shoud be 12 colors. -- Polluks 07:14, 22 May 2024 (UTC)Reply