Why were Pokemon sprites colored by palettes and not just standalone pre-colored sprites, that just seems needlessly complicated
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Chameloshi said:
Why were Pokemon sprites colored by palettes and not just standalone pre-colored sprites, that just seems needlessly complicated
indexed color works better for filesize
In response to blip #100387
@Chameloshi: Because the original games started out as GB games, and only had palettes for some compatibility to the Super GameBoy and GameBoy Color, they're not true GameBoy Color games.
Also file sizes, the games barely fit on the cartridges as is.