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Badassbill — 8-Bit Action RPG
Published: 2011-04-08 21:13:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 9352; Favourites: 120; Downloads: 101
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Based around NES limitations, but wide-screen.Related content
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Why is always 8-bit? Why not 32-bit with blocky 3D graphics like on the original PlayStation. Not all of us were born in the 80's.
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So these are done in the original NES color pallet?
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That's pretty sweet. I wonder why the original NES games didn't look this good
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Playing pretty loosely with the term 8-bit here.
I think this would be the equivalent of pre-rendered backgrounds for the NES. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.
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color palate and resolution reminds me more of Genesis than NES
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What's the difference between 8-bit and regular pixel art.. ??
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Wow, I'd love to see this in a game, man. I'm in a retro phase right now too.
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Wait, so this is legitimately 8 bit? FINALLY! I am fucking sick of people doing low-res stuff and saying, "lol, it's 8bit."
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i really don't think the nes graphichs were that good
gba yes
snes maybe
but not nes
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Well its funny how you point that out. Because its entirely factual.
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well the colorscheme seems correct but the actual screen size (?) seems to zoomed out
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So you're telling me that they could have games like this in the NES if they tried hard enough?
Kind of a depressing thought, when you think about how much most of their graphics suck, save for a few exceptions.
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After I saw this I was like =O!!!
Then I had to double-check...and NES graphics limitations for everything but sprites are as follows:
-3 colors that can change per 2x2 tiles (16x16 pixels), plus one constant background color per screen...though most people doing pseudo-NES pixelart generally just stick to 4 colors per 16x16
-Palette of 48 colors and 5 grays
-1 layer (so, can't put multiple layers down to get around the color limitations)
-Tilemap consisting of 128x128 pixels of tile data; that is, a max of 256 8x8-pixel 2-bit color tiles that you can use on the screen at a time
Right off the bat you can see that this picture exceeds the color limitations in a few places, and I haven't checked to see if all these tiles fit in the tilemap but I don't suspect they would...
So in other words, I wouldn't count on being able to squeeze this out of a real NES...!
That said, technical crap aside, it's very well drawn.
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With a couple layering techniques (putting a sprite like the character's face on a normal area of transparency in the other part of the sprite) such as the ones seen on the Mega Man series' player sprites, I could see this being played on an NES!
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Unfortunately not, the backgrounds are using too many colors. You could have sprites layered over the backgrounds in some places, but you only get 8 sprites per scanline (horizontal line of pixels), and sprites are only 8 pixels across, so you'd never be able to cross the entire screen with sprite layering to produce this. But hey, on the bright side, I think this could be easily done on the Sega Master System! And that was 8-bit too, so...
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I know what the limitations are. I said this piece was based on the NES, not that it fits them exactly.
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I figured you did, I was just clarifying for the people who took "Based around NES limitations" to mean "you could do this on a real NES!"
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Something that doesn't hurt my eyes; well done.
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