Yeah I meant it would be good if we could use any number of rows, so if we have like 113 tiles in our game in total then we're not wasting 704 bytes of archive due to an unused 11 tiles pic chunk.

The NES is quite limited anyways. I think the conversion came out quite nicely.

On the NES it looks like the varaia suit is actually a very pale pink. Here are a couple colours you could use based on the pallet you posted. The NES one is on the far left.

I just looked it up on youtube because I couldn't remember. It's been ages since I played that game.

So I have been trying to generate an accurate palette, but in the end it all depends on your television I think.

I have been working with a parallax propeller chip which can generate video. It has a bit of a weird palette though, so I tried to make a little demo with the limited colors.

From left to right:
Image with original NES palette.
Same image with Propeller Chip colors.
Propeller chip palette. All colors the propeller chip can generate with the driver code I use.

I saw this earlier and it looked nice, but I need to read more about that type of chip lol, because I never heard about it until earlier.

can you post an actual image of it in action (with sprites) instead of a color chart? I'm very interested.
Also please leave in a 4-color mode. I would like to play with that too.

Well with a non-moving test pattern obviously there is a little bit of flicker noticable, but otherwise it isn't too bad at all.

Edit: So I was testing this on an actual crt yesterday with a new kind of image. I noticed flicker occurs when the colors you blend are very different from eachother, so it is therefore recommended to only blend colors that are close to eachother and create a subtone. I also found out that horizontal scrolling is probably gonna be a bit hackish and is gonna require some cycle accurate coding. I don't use a bitmap framebuffer so shifting the display is done on the fly. The screen buffer contains pointers to tiles. There is another ram area where tiles are stored. You can address 256 tiles. At the moment the video generator just takes up one core out of 8, so I can just use up all cycles of this core. For other stuff I can use a different core.

I am going to experiment with interlacing. Perhaps interlacing gives me nicer color mixing.