Oh right, now that you mention it I do remember hearing about that. I think there's a sample video of two of it on youtube. Oh well, I'll resume work anyways, it will be a challenging and fun project. Plus if I actually get it somewhat working, it would make a great Axe parser contest entry.

Oh wow, this is going to make things so much easier.

For a while now I've been asking myself how I'm going to draw all the foreground people/enemies/items etc. in 4-color grayscale with transparency for this Link's Awakening thing. Quigibo's new routine would have worked wonders, if only LA was a 3-color grayscale game.

I decided I'd start with the basics, just getting Link displayed. I was starting the process of converting all his sprites to 8x8, and a bit through the first sprite I noticed it was kind of funny that there were no dark gray pixels in this sprite. And then the next sprite lacked dark gray too. And the next. And the next.

I said to myself, "Wait a second. Why is the area around Link in these sprites dark gray?" *Thinks for a moment...* HUZZAH!! EVERY SINGLE FOREGROUND SPRITE IN LINK'S AWAKENING USES DARK GRAY NOT AS A COLOR BUT AS TRANSPARENCY! It's amazing I never even noticed that during the hours I must have played it. I was thinking all sorts of crazy thoughts like a third foreground transparency buffer and weird stuff, but now this will be so much simpler. Well, at least if I can complete the momentous task of converting all the foreground sprites, which are much more specific and detailed than background sprites, to 8x8 from 16x16. I may want to add back dark gray as a color into the palette just so the sprites convert decently, but I'll try using the 3-color palette first. If any good spriters want to help me out a bit, I'd be eternally grateful.

Oh wow, this is going to make things so much easier.

For a while now I've been asking myself how I'm going to draw all the foreground people/enemies/items etc. in 4-color grayscale with transparency for this Link's Awakening thing. Quigibo's new routine would have worked wonders, if only LA was a 3-color grayscale game.

I decided I'd start with the basics, just getting Link displayed. I was starting the process of converting all his sprites to 8x8, and a bit through the first sprite I noticed it was kind of funny that there were no dark gray pixels in this sprite. And then the next sprite lacked dark gray too. And the next. And the next.

I said to myself, "Wait a second. Why is the area around Link in these sprites dark gray?" *Thinks for a moment...* HUZZAH!! EVERY SINGLE FOREGROUND SPRITE IN LINK'S AWAKENING USES DARK GRAY NOT AS A COLOR BUT AS TRANSPARENCY! It's amazing I never even noticed that during the hours I must have played it. I was thinking all sorts of crazy thoughts like a third foreground transparency buffer and weird stuff, but now this will be so much simpler. Well, at least if I can complete the momentous task of converting all the foreground sprites, which are much more specific and detailed than background sprites, to 8x8 from 16x16. I may want to add back dark gray as a color into the palette just so the sprites convert decently, but I'll try using the 3-color palette first. If any good spriters want to help me out a bit, I'd be eternally grateful.

Yeah, all sprites on the Gameboy and Gameboy Color are three colors and transparency.

...I may want to add back dark gray as a color into the palette just so the sprites convert decently, but I'll try using the 3-color palette first. If any good spriters want to help me out a bit, I'd be eternally grateful.

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Go ahead, TACCOM.

Do you plan on keeping Link in 3 grayscale using the dark gray as a transparency or do you have something else in mind?

Whoa, those look pretty nice. He's even got a couple enemies done as well.

I did not read through most of the discussion, but Runer, are you actually planning to ditch the entire hard work you put on the 4 level grayscale tiles and converting to 3 level maps? Or am I misunderstanding? Although 3 level may look nice too, it would suck to have to restart from scratch

Otherwise, do you just mean the sprites that requires masking?