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jotd · 29 April 2021, 15:19

I wouldn't say that Chaos Engine AGA is worse. I like it with more colors. But like in Speedball 2 CD32 it's obvious that they just completely changed tones of some monsters, and kept others unchanged, instead of reworking the palette globally.

I must say this is probably difficult to rework a 16 color palette to another non-true color palette even with more colors. I don't know how many bitplanes are used but probably not 8 (else it would crawl) so they were stuck with 64 colors, and it would have been a great deal of work to rethink the whole palette of all assets (tiles, monsters, characters)

Speedball 2 AGA isn't so good because of all this copper/brass shit that breaks the steely look.

29 April 2021, 15:19	#60
jotd This cat is no more Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: FRANCE Age: 52 Posts: 8,340	I wouldn't say that Chaos Engine AGA is worse. I like it with more colors. But like in Speedball 2 CD32 it's obvious that they just completely changed tones of some monsters, and kept others unchanged, instead of reworking the palette globally. I must say this is probably difficult to rework a 16 color palette to another non-true color palette even with more colors. I don't know how many bitplanes are used but probably not 8 (else it would crawl) so they were stuck with 64 colors, and it would have been a great deal of work to rethink the whole palette of all assets (tiles, monsters, characters) Speedball 2 AGA isn't so good because of all this copper/brass shit that breaks the steely look.