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

[TrekkiesUnite118]

The guy is now posting specs and a lot of them seem to be rather off.

SNES Video spec Picture Processor Unit: 16-Bit
Video RAM: 128 KB
64 KB of VRAM for screen maps (for 'background' layers) and tile sets (for backgrounds and objects);
64 KB for sprite layers, 512 + 32 bytes of 'OAM' (Object Attribute Memory) for objects; 512 bytes of 'CGRAM' for palette data.
Palette: 256 entries; 15-Bit color depth (RGB555) for a total of 32,768 colors.
Maximum colors per layer per scanline: 256.
Maximum colors on-screen: 4096 without alpha and 32,768 (using color arithmetic for transparency effects).
Maximum colors per sprite : 128
Resolution: between 256x224 and 512x448. Most games used 256x224, 320x224, 512x224 pixels since higher resoulutions caused slowdown, flicker, and/or had increased limitations on layers and colors (due to memory bandwidth constraints);
the higher resolutions were used for less processor-intensive games, in-game menus, text, and high resolution images.
Maximum onscreen objects (sprites): 128 (32 per line, up to 34 8x8 tiles per line).
Maximum number of sprite pixels on one scanline: 256. The renderer was designed such that it would drop the frontmost sprites instead of the rearmost sprites if a scanline exceeded the limit, allowing for creative clipping effects.

This doesn't seem very correct to me.

[StarMist]

How could it possibly display 4,000 colours at once? It's a video game, not an acid trip.

[Thunderblaze16]

How could it possibly display 4,000 colours at once? It's a video game, not an acid trip.

fan boys well believe in ANYTHING that well make whatever the fuck there fans off, better.

[16bitter]

fan boys well believe in ANYTHING that well make whatever the fuck there fans off, better.

Personal attack on TrekkiesUnite+sheath.

[eddiespruce]

I always thought SNES displayed 256 maximum colors onscreen of a palette of 32,768, I don't know where the 4,096 onscreen colors is coming from. Maybe he's confusing it with NEO GEO, which actually did display 4,096 colors onscreen, out of a palette of 65,536.

[Sega Genesis]

That's nothing compared to Vectorman displaying 8184 colors at once.

[andlabs]

Does the SNES support HInt palette cycling? And isn't the SNES 256x224? Because if so you can do that many pixels on screen in a unique color...

[TrekkiesUnite118]

Does the SNES support HInt palette cycling? And isn't the SNES 256x224? Because if so you can do that many pixels on screen in a unique color...

That may be possible, but is it useful in a game situation?

[Kamahl]

The guy is now posting specs and a lot of them seem to be rather off.



This doesn't seem very correct to me.

That's because it isn't.

"Maximum colors per sprite : 128" - NOPE

[TrekkiesUnite118]

Yeah if I remember correctly from the PCE vs SNES vs MD threads we've had here, the SNES has 16 palettes that can have 16 colors each to use. And 8 of those are available to sprites. Now that is 128 colors available to sprites, but I think 1 sprite can only use one of those 16 color palettes.

[Kamahl]

Yeah if I remember correctly from the PCE vs SNES vs MD threads we've had here, the SNES has 16 palettes that can have 16 colors each to use. And 8 of those are available to sprites. Now that is 128 colors available to sprites, but I think 1 sprite can only use one of those 16 color palettes.

Correct

[Iron Lizard]

That's nothing compared to Vectorman displaying 8184 colors at once.

That how I would approach it. Fight stupid with stupid. Also make sure to tell him the Genesis once killed a man in Reno just to watch him die and jumped a shark on water skies.

[Kamahl]

I'd go the "Blast Processing" route myself.

[TrekkiesUnite118]

I should take a heavily filtered Sonic Screenshot that GIMP claims has 25000+ colors.

[Curryman123]

DKC can display 500000 colors because it's better than vectorman. *puts up a flame shield*