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[–] Tyfud 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Also, the jpeg is going to store each pixel as a 8bit x3, Rgb (255 *3), color pallette for the color code, whereas the nes was limited to only 56 colors.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Also, this jpeg has multiple pixels where there would only be one pixel on the nes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

More: that palette was hard coded and the actual in use palettes were even smaller subsets of the system palette to reduce memory demand