> I don't know for sure what colour settings the NES had, I doubt it had a freely selectable 256 colours for each pixel. Probably a limited palette, maybe per-s

> I don't know for sure what colour settings the NES had, I doubt it had a freely selectable 256 colours for each pixel. Probably a limited palette, maybe per-sprite, maybe for the whole screen. http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Games/Hacking/Wiki/index.php?title=NES_Palette http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Games/Hacking/Wiki/index.php?... "a total of 64 pre-set colors (56 of which are unique), and you can only show 25 on the screen at one time (under normal circumstances)." So ya, a little more limited than 24-bit colour.