What games used all 512 colors?

[BigusSchmuck]

Anyone? I know Parasol Stars comes into mind, maybe we can do a sticky on this...Perhaps categorize it as well..

[Nazi NecroPhile]

If you mean on one screen, there's none.  It can't display quite its entire palette at once, and it likely wouldn't look very good if it did - like a unicorn puked rainbows all over the screen.  The most colorful games (like Beyond Shadowgate, Tokimeki Memorial, and Tongueman's Logic) are in the 100-120 range.

*edit*

This was the thread I was looking for.  Unfortunately many of the links are broken now. 

[OldRover]

The maximum number of colors that can ever be displayed can be calculated:

Tiles: 15 uniques per palette *16 palettes + the common color = 241
Sprites: 15 uniques per palette * 16 palettes + overscan color = 241
241 + 241 = 482

So, 482 colors onscreen at once.

...I don't believe any game ever used this many colors. It'd be the ugliest game ever designed if one did.

[Nando]

;)

Chris Covell's PC Engine Demos

[BigusSchmuck]

If you mean on one screen, there's none.  It can't display quite its entire palette at once, and it likely wouldn't look very good if it did - like a unicorn puked rainbows all over the screen.  The most colorful games (like Beyond Shadowgate, Tokimeki Memorial, and Tongueman's Logic) are in the 100-120 range.

*edit*

This was the thread I was looking for.  Unfortunately many of the links are broken now. 

Hey thanks, that should be stickied.

[esteban]

Taste the rainbow.

[TheClash603]

482 colors FTW!

Makes even 481 colors seem like the developers were just lazy.

[CrackTiger]

Parasol Stars doesn't have much shading. If it has high color counts at all it would be on screens with a variety of enemies.