Macbee wrote:
I'm using this image as reference for my mockups:

Do you have a .PAL of this? If not, I'll make one myself. Unless this is taken from an emulator?
Anywho, the time has come!First, value 16 as the backdrop:
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Not bad; not bad at all! I can live with this! This is going off the YUV setting on Nestopia. One minor quibble, though: the hue for the blue tarp shares the hue for the sky. Shame, seeing as I found a near exact hue that matches the SNES sky.
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Oh God! I was right--RGB looks terrible. Bear in mind this is the same hue for Mario's overalls... right?
Next, the same thing, but I changed the sprite outlines to pink (hey, it worked for Link):

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Notably, as you can see on the right, the two hues blend together in RGB (in YUV as well, I guess).
Lastly, 017 as the backdrop:
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Looks nice in both cases.
And now... the moment of truth a single instance of an individual's consumer TV settings with arbitrary HSV adjustment that could quite possibly match no one else's:Value 16 Backdrop:





Looks perfect! The torqouise blue works well for both the tarp and sky as well.




Even my pink sprites kinda hold up well.
Value 17 Backdrop:



Hardly a difference! Which makes me lean towards value 17 seeing as it's not as drastic as a change and works well with most palette sets. But my new concern is changing the sprite palette hue of 37 -> 27. The guard just doesn't have the contrast he originally had.
Either way, I think it's safe to say we can go on ahead with changing sprite tiles; they're not dependent on the palette changes we'll be making. Plus, I want to try this test again with better Aladdin sprites.
By the way, guess what was also on my Power Pak?


Now if you'll excuse me, my computer has politely requested that I restart it for the last hour.