So apparently Donkey Kong Country displays 4096 colors at once...

So some youtube SNES fan decided to reply to a comment I posted months ago saying that I'm a stupid Sega Fanboy and that the SNES can display thousands of colors at once. He claims that Donkey Kong Country displays 4096 colors at once using a scanline trick.

This seems a bit weird to me. So I brought up Donkey Kong Country in bSNES and took unfiltered screenshots. I then brought them up in GIMP and had it count the amount of unique colors. And what I found was the following:

Title Screen = 253 Colors
DK's House = 160ish Colors
DK's Empty Banana Cave = 80 colors
Jungle Day = 217-240 colors
Cave = 80-112 Colors
Jungle Going dark = 160ish colors
Jungle Dark = 100ish colors

So In the first few levels DKC doesn't seem to go over the 256 colors per frame limit of the SNES. So I have a few questions to our more tech savvy people here.

1) Did I do something wrong?
2) Does DKC really display 4096 colors?
3) What is this scanline trick that this person mentioned

DKC does NOT display 4096 colors at once. That´s complete bs.

That was my gut feeling on it too.

Yeah, I tested DK a few years ago and it doesn't quite reach 256 colors, the SNES cannot display more than that anyway. DKC is the most colorful SNES game I have found though.

Please people, for your own sake, get lives.

Why on earth is this in the Genesis Does section.
Come on people tighten up. This sloppy forum posting is just sloppy.

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Originally Posted by Mr Smith

Please people, for your own sake, get lives.

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That is not a viable option, sir.

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Originally Posted by TrekkiesUnite118

So some youtube SNES fan decided to reply to a comment I posted months ago saying that I'm a stupid Sega Fanboy and that the SNES can display thousands of colors at once.

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True, same way you can get 1500 or something colors on the genesis.

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Originally Posted by TrekkiesUnite118

He claims that Donkey Kong Country displays 4096 colors at once using a scanline trick.

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Horse shit. SNES fans are spectacularly ignorant and latch on to any silly claim they hear.
EDIT: Genesis fans too at times, 256 colors in Eternal Champions CD anyone?

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Originally Posted by Mr Smith

Please people, for your own sake, get lives.

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coming hear just to say this? yea they need lives... <_<

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Originally Posted by Thunderblaze16

coming hear just to say this? yea they need lives... <_<

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My post adds as little to the thread as yours does :D

and replying back doesn't make your point any better :)

Besides, I have a life, it just bores the crap out of me most of the time.

Does anyone even know what backround mode DKC uses? By the fact it has 3 and then a layer of just a gradient I'm going to guess it's Mode 1, but I'm not sure.

I respect the snes so much for its mode 7 why? I don't know but when I first saw that ability over sega I was drooling from those effects.

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Originally Posted by sheath

Besides, I have a life, it just bores the crap out of me most of the time.

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Exactly!