I don't understand why you want to slap the fanboy tag on me, when I actually said in my comment that I love both games. Also, sorry if I got you bored, I usual

I don't understand why you want to slap the fanboy tag on me, when I actually said in my comment that I love both games. Also, sorry if I got you bored, I usually enjoy talking about technicalities and often forget that others around me might be uninterested. I accept your point about the colour mode, it seems [1] that SMW has more colours on screen as you said. Regarding the animation frames, I couldn't find info, I'd love to read about it so let me know if you have any good link. In my parent comment I was thinking more about smaller vs larger sprites (up to 128px in SotB) [1][2], and flat colours vs extensive use of gradients (I don't have hard data on this but it seems pretty evident by just looking at a few screenshots). [1] http://codetapper.com/amiga/sprite-tricks/shadow-of-the-beast/ http://codetapper.com/amiga/sprite-tricks/shadow-of-the-beas... [2] http://www.snesmaps.com/maps/SuperMarioWorld/sprites/SuperMarioWorldSprites.html http://www.snesmaps.com/maps/SuperMarioWorld/sprites/SuperMa...