I read this article today about nes graphics without palette restrictions. I thought it was cool, so I made a mockup of what metroid could have looked like without 3+1 color palette restrictions. It still uses the nes colors though.

Yes, sprites are more or less limited in colors, yet some devs were genius enough to give us 16-bit visual orgy.

EDIT : Realized that a alone screenshot doens't give justice: learn that the game does uses a clock to track if you're at day or at night (game time, not yours) and change smoothly the palette to give us a neat blue sky, then orange evening and a dark night.

Yup, but it suffered of a poor reputation: it came after the GBA, so it was quite hidden by it. Quite the fun game it is.

Edit : to get back progressively on the topic's rail, the GBC is restricted but it's capable of a lot of colors (virtually 65k if you use double image).

It's gbc and not nes.

Looks very nice Keoni! ^^ I had some Sprites from Super Ghouls and Ghosts that I was down converting to an NES pallet. I should see if I can find them and post them. They were pretty true to the original restrictions, but I think a few of them had 4 colours per sprite instead of 3.


*edit* I like that the hud was moved out of the play area as well.

Also lol I just noticed it's the first dragon boss. What's his name already ? He is much bigger and pretty difficult in Zero Mission.

Also in Super Metroid he spans 2 screens in height