Talk:PPU palettes

It says that the background palette hack can be used to display the unused palette data. Can the EXT pins also do this? --Zzo38 (talk) 22:30, 1 July 2013 (MDT)

Yes, I think so. While rendering background pixels, the palette index that gets looked up is simply 0<exp_in3><exp_in2><exp_in1><exp_in0>. -Ulfalizer (talk) 03:58, 2 July 2013 (MDT)

Interestingly, it looks like the background palette hack wouldn't work for output to the EXT pins though (bit 6 of $2000 set). The logic that causes the VRAM address to be used for the palette index while the background palette hack is active comes after the logic that outputs the index to the EXT pins. -Ulfalizer (talk) 04:15, 2 July 2013 (MDT)

Thank you for information. I suppose if you are using the master/slave, you can connect the EXT pins in reverse (EXT0 to EXT3, EXT1 to EXT2, EXT2 to EXT1, EXT3 to EXT0) so that this can be used to make extra colors. --Zzo38 (talk) 23:05, 2 July 2013 (MDT)

Source of palette

Where did the palette added by Lidnariq in this edit come from? --Tepples (talk) 18:56, 25 December 2013 (MST)

Screenshot from Nestopia running blargg's full_colors and nes_ntsc. Feel free to bikeshed. —Lidnariq (talk) 20:00, 25 December 2013 (MST)

Parsing the palette

The palette values from this table are read from left to right, then up -> down. Is this ok?

00 01 02 03 ... 0F
10 11 12 13 ... 1F
20 ...
(unsigned comment by Zepper)

Almost. They appear to go from $00 to $0D, then the next line from $10 to $1D, etc. --Tepples (talk) 06:42, 28 December 2013 (MST)

Browser compatibility of Drag's palette generator

It appears that Firefox 29 implements built-in validation for <input type="number"> such that said elements are expected by default to contain integers. This affects the default hue and saturation settings, causing the boxes to be given glowing red borders and explanatory tooltips, and preventing the values from being changed to other reasonable non-integers. The default settings still work (in that they produce the same palette as in older versions of Firefox) as long as they are not changed.

Relevant documentation can be found on various Mozilla websites (not bothering to link any of it here due to lack of login). --150.135.211.242 22:30, 18 May 2014 (MDT)

Maybe send this information to Drag? I don't think it does much good here. - Rainwarrior (talk) 11:00, 20 May 2014 (MDT)

How does Drag prefer to be contacted? I am not active on the forums (and therefore don't qualify for an account on the wiki either). The homepage of the domain on which the generator is hosted mentions that Drag has a Twitter account, but I'm not a registered Twitter user either (and I don't feel like registering just for this one issue).

I don't see how posting here is useless given that some other user could make a fixed version. For example, Tepples has some webspace which could theoretically be used for this. --150.135.211.242 14:46, 20 May 2014 (MDT)

You used to need a reputation on the BBS or IRC to qualify for a wiki account. You don't anymore; that ended 20 months ago with the transition away from Parodius. Feel free to register and jump right into the talk pages, and so long as your posts there show clue, you'll get autoconfirmed in no time. --Tepples (talk) 19:35, 20 May 2014 (MDT)