#NESTOPIA RETROARCH TV#

Guess where I went on its Internet Explorer browser first? One of my sister's friends gave us an XBox 360 today. Why? Because I'm looking at the various screenshots of $22 in this thread, and now they all look blue! So, when people talk about whether a palette looks right on their computer monitors, their monitors (and whether they have a color management profile installed) plays as big a role in the result as the palette does! I'm typing this post on my old Thinkpad instead of my desktop, and I have a feeling that its LCD has less accurate colors.

The developers of these classic games almost certainly tolerated the variation in colors between the TVs in their offices, so there can't be a precise answer about what colors were intended.Įven in the all-digital realm, color reproduction can be imperfect.

#NESTOPIA RETROARCH TV#

Since the NES produces colors out-of-gamut, there's no standard for how a TV should interpret the signal anyway. If there's anything these palette threads have taught me, it's that there are so many things that affect color reproduction and color perception that there's no way to be certain. :p …At least, for an NTSC palette.Nor should you. Kizul Emeraldfire wrote: But I'm not really willing to go to quite that much bother to improve this palette in my opinion, it's already as close to 'perfect' as one can get. But I'm not really willing to go to quite that much bother to improve this palette in my opinion, it's already as close to 'perfect' as one can get. If I knew someone (who lived in the same town as me) who owned an oscilloscope or something, I might be able to get the palette even more accurate - maybe. It's also a little blurrier than the others, so possibly it's using RF instead of Composite? I dunno. (The output in the middle looks like a normal NES using Composite the output on the left looks like something from a NES-on-a-Chip (or maybe an RGB-modded NES) but the output on the right looks way, way too dark. >.> I think the colors fluctuate between various NES Control Decks anyway, given what I saw at Awesome Games Done Quick once. Maybe my NES is just slightly oddball maybe it doesn't adhere 100% to the NTSC color standards of 1950s or 1980s U.S.A./Japan. Unfortunately, the Gaussian Blur filter caused slight color loss as well in some screenshots: I discovered that the more times you blur with it at maximum strength, the closer it goes to #808080 gray. I took those screenshots, cropped 'em to a 660×660-pixel square in Photoshop (PS 7, specifically), and applied a maximum-strength Gaussian Blur filter to it to smooth out and eliminate the majority of the noise.

Also, for bonus points: on the right side (in MS Paint), you can see the exact same color with the Gamma filter turned OFF! :D Unedited screenshot of Adventure Island II showing a screenful of $22 color, displayed in DScaler. So sayeth the Wii VC palette and my own NES and TV tuner card, at least.

$x8 is another one that looks vastly different depending on the emulator its canon color, however, is apparently much closer to ye olden MS Paint's dark yellow color (going greener as it gets darker) than to a nice orangey-ish 'gold' color. ò.o (The Wii VC palette looks an awful lot like the one I got, though - just a lot dimmer.) Oddly, the 3DS VC palette seems to go more toward 'FCE Ultra' in terms of the entire palette's hues. Well, they actually did use $21 for the main overworld battle scenes (that weren't dark - they didn't use it for graveyard battles, for example) I think they only used $22 for towns and Palaces and such.Īs far as the $x1, $x2, $x3, and $x4 columns of colors are concerned: most emulators (such as FCE Ultra and its derivatives) seem to do those columns of colors as 'Sky Blue', ''Pure' Blue', 'Blue-Violet', 'Purple' - respectively - whereas in the Nintendo Wii Virtual Console palette and my own, $x2's actually an 'Indigo' color. Assuming that this palette matches the behavior of correctly calibrated 1980s TVs, it strikes me as very strange that Nintendo chose such a purple hue ($22, I think) when $21 or $31 would look much better. LightStruk wrote:I no longer have a real NES console or a CRT TV, so I can't check for myself.

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