Where Can I Find the PlayChoice 10 RGB Values?
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Where Can I Find the PlayChoice 10 RGB Values?
So the PlayChoice is the only "NES" machine that uses RGB I assume? I tried looking for these values but got lost in the massive amount of topics trying to emulate the NTSC video.
Are Nestopia's RGB values taken from the PC10? If not, where can I find them? Your help is appreciated. This is for an NES-style PC game I'm working on.
Are Nestopia's RGB values taken from the PC10? If not, where can I find them? Your help is appreciated. This is for an NES-style PC game I'm working on.
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You can glean the PC-10 (RGB PPU) values from here, but as you can see they're far from the original composite NES palette.
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I wouldn't want to "glean" anything from a .jpg.
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Other Nintendo consoles with RGB output can play NES games in emulation:
- acNES for GameCube (used in Animal Crossing)
- acNES for Game Boy Advance (used in Animal Crossing Advance Play versions, e-Reader, and Classic NES Series) in the Game Boy Player accessory
- PocketNES for Game Boy Advance (used in rereleases of Atlus and Jaleco games) in the Game Boy Player accessory
- Virtual Console for Wii
Each output channel of the RGB PPU (red, green, blue) is known to have 8 levels, much like the Genesis VDP. If you can pick out these 8 peaks in the histogram, you have a pretty good idea of what the original levels were supposed to be. On the other hand, someone has done this for you: 2C03 paletteDwedit wrote:I wouldn't want to "glean" anything from a .jpg.
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Why the scare quotes?Dwedit wrote:I wouldn't want to "glean" anything from a .jpg.
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Re: Where Can I Find the PlayChoice 10 RGB Values?
That depends on whether English orthography provides a reliable method to distinguish non-pejorative direct quotation of a single word in ccovell's post from the pejorative quotation sometimes called "scare quotes".blargg wrote:Why the scare quotes?Dwedit wrote:I wouldn't want to "glean" anything from a .jpg.
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Re: Where Can I Find the PlayChoice 10 RGB Values?
I'd rather not rely on any specific emulator's RGB. I'd like to go with something somewhat official back in the day.
Can I get a PNG of this, then?ccovell wrote:You can glean the PC-10 (RGB PPU) values from here, but as you can see they're far from the original composite NES palette.
Anyone have the values for the Sharp RGB then? I'd like to do a comparison.tepples wrote:Also consider the Famicom Titler and Sharp TVs with a Famicom cassette port, which use an RGB PPU.
Interesting. Any explanation why the two grays are missing? Or is this just how the Playchoice 10 is?tepples wrote: If you can pick out these 8 peaks in the histogram, you have a pretty good idea of what the original levels were supposed to be. On the other hand, someone has done this for you: 2C03 palette
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The Wii values are probably official by now though. In any case, you can take the known characteristics of the NES video output and run them through a TV emulator; this is the approach used by Bisqwit's palette generator.Jedi QuestMaster wrote:I'd rather not rely on any specific emulator's RGB. I'd like to go with something somewhat official back in the day.
The Famicom Titler uses a PlayChoice PPU, as do the Vs. System games Duck Hunt and Tennis.Anyone have the values for the Sharp RGB then? I'd like to do a comparison.
$2D and $3D in the PlayChoice PPU do happen to be black. I guess they're so close to $00 and $10 respectively that Nintendo thought games were using $00 and $10 instead.Any explanation why the two grays are missing? Or is this just how the Playchoice 10 is?
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In that case, I'd like to do a comparison with these values. Anyone have them? I can't find them.tepples wrote: The Wii values are probably official by now though.
Thank you. I remembered going to this page once. I can go off my RCA TV settings, which cranks up the brightness & saturationtepples wrote: In any case, you can take the known characteristics of the NES video output and run them through a TV emulator; this is the approach used by Bisqwit's palette generator.
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The palette generator looks usable to me with default settings except 1.2 or 1.5 saturation and 2.0 gamma.
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Re: Where Can I Find the PlayChoice 10 RGB Values?
Not me. I like to crank the brightness to 1.5! Or do I dare say it? 2.0?!!!
Edit: Oh, I see. One of the grays disappears when I do that.
And I'd still like to see the Wii NES's RGB palette, in case I do use that.
Edit: Oh, I see. One of the grays disappears when I do that.
And I'd still like to see the Wii NES's RGB palette, in case I do use that.
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Sorry, I don't have a PNG handy anymore. I captured the RGB PPU's values from my Famicom Titler (using direct RGB input and a video capture card), and its PPU is identical to the Playchoice-10. The RGB PPU is a little different and inadequate colour-wise compared to the composite PPU, as you can see. You can use this palette for whatever project you have, but I wouldn't recommend it...Jedi QuestMaster wrote:Can I get a PNG of this, then?
Anyone have the values for the Sharp RGB then? I'd like to do a comparison.
Interesting. Any explanation why the two grays are missing? Or is this just how the Playchoice 10 is?
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OK, I don't know where you got those composite colors, but the third row from the top is totally off. They should look more blue. To give you an idea, the third color in that column is used for the SMB sky.
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Here's the Nintendulator NTSC palette vs the PC10 palette:
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That's the problem with the NES palette... you can't accurately reproduce it, something always looks "off".Jedi QuestMaster wrote:the third row from the top is totally off.