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- The tiles have many repeated images while in the original they could flip them and change the color palette. Note that the bushes and the cloud share sprites.
by DiThi 11y ago
- The tiles have many repeated images while in the original they could flip them and change the color palette. Note that the bushes and the cloud share sprites.
- .kkrieger wasn't 64 kb, it's 96 kb. Still impressive though.
- The image in the tweet is 51.4 kb.
I was expecting some explanation about how the sprites are so tiny because they use a palette of 4 colors (and 4 pixels fit in one single byte), then the colors themselves are stored separately.
- lost_name 11y agoI feel like this is pretty important since the article is talking about the comparison in the first place. Here's a couple blog posts on the subject, which I think explain it better. http://www.dustmop.io/blog/2015/04/28/nes-graphics-part-1/ http://www.dustmop.io/blog/2015/04/28/nes-graphics-part-1/ http://www.dustmop.io/blog/2015/06/08/nes-graphics-part-2/ http://www.dustmop.io/blog/2015/06/08/nes-graphics-part-2/