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Ok, this makes sense! Thanks again for a quick reply!

I was wondering that why doesn't OAM cycling happen with text boxes? Are the letters tiles instead of sprites? Again, I am doing NES-looking graphics for a PC game and I want the graphics to look as authentic as possible. For example when you speak with the old man in The Legend of Zelda, the letter...

Thanks, that was exactly the answer I needed! Sadly I don't have any example graphics of this particular situation since I decided to ask this before doing anything that would require non-transparent sprites. It was as I expected so I'm not gonna use any sprites without alpha then. And I am familiar...

I am designin graphics with the NES limitations for a PC game. I am wondering that is it possible on a real NES to use sprites with 4 colors instead of 3 colors + alpha? I know that the first color of all the 4 sprite palettes must be the same color (alpha), but could this be set to some non-transpa...