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I've made the latest corrections and clarifications. I think it's getting close" _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Super Nintendo/Super Famicom Graphical summary Important: The SNES stretched its 256 pixel wide screen image hor...

Here's yet another revised version based on your feedback. Please let me know if I missed or misrepresented anything: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Super Nintendo/Super Famicom Graphical summary Important: The SNES st...

Hi everyone, I've updated the document based on your feedback as best I could. Please read this new version and let me know if I've made any mistakes or if anything is worded in a misleading or confusing manner. ________________________________________________________________________________________...

So, do I understand correctly that there's no such thing as translucent sprites overlapping solid sprites? The options are translucent sprites (only sprites using sprite palettes 4 through 7) over backgrounds or translucent background over all sprites that are beneath them? Or is it just that you ca...

Thanks again very much everyone. I'm working on re-writing the document based on all your info and feedback and will post it back up tomorrow. We're not finished, but I'm a heck of a lot closer than before your help. I don't want to cover every possible combination, but I do want to make the most co...

psycopathicteen wrote:512x448 Mode does NOT cause slowdown.

So, I'd assume the only limitation it would impose is that obviously, all art would need to be twice as many pixels to be the same size, and therefore twice the data. (twice as many sprite and bg tiles would need to be used)

Is this the case?

Thanks for the help, tepples. I'm hoping to completely avoid words like bitfield and generally use much more plain English. IU'm not sure I understand what you posted and that lack of confidence is exactly what I'm trying to eliminate for myself and other artists. Towards those ends, do I understand...

Background graphics color limitations: The SNES allows for 2 scrolling layers, 1 sprite layer, and one non scrolling “window” layer typically used for the games HUD (life bars, score etc.). Each scrolling layer is made of 8x8 pixel tiles. The SNES provides a wealth of many different ways of doing t...

Oh, and to repeat an important question. Does anyone know what math is used to compute the mode 7 translucent overlays? I need to know so we can figure out how artists can simulate this effect in art programs like Photoshop etc.

Thanks again everyone.

Thanks so much for taking the time to help fill in these blanks. I'm sure lots of artists will really appreciate it, and hopefully, some excited artists will come this way as an eventual result of the finished document. Here are a couple more questions: 1) Can any sprite be scaled or rotated regardl...

RE-RE-UPDATED! I once again updated the document below based on all your feedback and corrections, please re-read and let me know if anything's incorrect or misleading. Hi everyone. I'm a long time pro pixel artist (and also SNES fan) and I'm working on rounding up concise and clear (artist friendl...