SNES Restrictions

[Souly]

What are the SNES pallete and graphical restrictions?
I'm having a tough time googling it.

[Evil-Ville]

Resolution:    Between 256x224 and 512x448 pixels
Colors Available:    32 768 colors (15-bit color RGB555)
Max colors at once:    256 colors
Max sprite size:    64 x 64 pixels
Max sprites:    128 sprites

Took me about 30 seconds to find.

[Souly]

By "tough time" I meant I lacked the motivation to actually go and search.

[Helm]

What  you just said is actually quite rude, considering you were just given the info you needed and didn't even say thanks.

[ptoing]

By "tough time" I meant I lacked the motivation to actually go and search.

If you can't be arsed to look for easily available info on the net for something you presumably wanna do (in this case dabble in snes style pixelling), then you should perhaps ask yourself if you have enough motivation to actually do it.

[ndchristie]

i think one restriction was missed - 16 colors per sprite, although i don't know if this is actually a restriction or if i am remebering wrong, and i thought that the number of colors was considerably less, only a few thousand, and certainly not 30.

its been a while since i worked with those restrictions though so i could be flat-out wrong, i'll look into it later when i have more time

[Souly]

Whoops, sorry about the rudness there.
It was fairly late when I posted that so I was getting a litte grumpy.

Thanks for finding thos for me Evil, I couldn't find it on google when I tried "SNES Restrictions" and a few other searches so I just decided to post it here and wait for the answers to come.

Thanks for clearing some of the info up Adarias.
I'll check back later to see if you've confirmed your info.

[ndchristie]

the results of my search:

all sprites and tile DO have to be 16 colors

while the normal display mode allows 4,096 colors, however the full 32,768 colors can be accessed in another less common mode which canhave some sort of transparency and mixing of background layers

[Xion]

while the normal display mode allows 4,096 colors, however the full 32,768 colors can be accessed in another less common mode which canhave some sort of transparency and mixing of background layers

Is that the mode they used in Yoshi's Island?

[Dogmeat]

By "tough time" I meant I lacked the motivation to actually go and search.

jeepers!

This gentleman has one thing going for him that most people don't.. He's honest and authentic. Though we may not agree with his methods at least he's being accountable for who he is.

Maybe we should give people a break eh?