Topic: Every possible colour combo that Mega Man can be in the NES palette

[JonLeung]

Click to view larger, or use these direct links:
https://vgmaps.com/temp/MegaMan-AllNESCombos.png
https://vgmaps.com/temp/MegaMan-AllNESCombos(x4).png
https://vgmaps.com/temp/MegaMan-AllNESCombos-Quadrant1(x3).png
https://vgmaps.com/temp/MegaMan-AllNESCombos-Quadrant2(x3).png
https://vgmaps.com/temp/MegaMan-AllNESCombos-Quadrant3(x3).png
https://vgmaps.com/temp/MegaMan-AllNESCombos-Quadrant4(x3).png

I made this image of every single possible colour combination for Mega Man, based on Wikipedia's NES palette of 54 colours. That's 2916 combinations!

As the NES doesn't have a standard RGB palette, NES palettes are always inexact.  But by using the palette I found on Wikipedia, there are 54 colours (should be two identical whites, two identical greys, but it has two slightly different blacks).  Since Mega Man can have two colours, that's 54 x 54 combinations, that is, 2916 weapons.  Assuming eight per game, it would take 364.5 (let's say 365) games to go through them all, if they all have unique colours (but I don't think they do, and I've never seen Mega Man apply the same colour for both of his tones).  If each game took a day, it would take a year.

This was quicker to make than I thought, and turned out better looking than I thought!   

[JonLeung]

All right, I printed it off:

[JonLeung]

Just another thing I whipped up for some reason.

There sure are a lot of repeats (dark green with white is in five of the six NES games), and white is the most common secondary colour, though it's never been the main colour.

[Bauiorty]

Just another thing I whipped up for some reason.

There sure are a lot of repeats (dark green with white is in five of the six NES games), and white is the most common secondary colour, though it's never been the main colour.

playing and watching the screen is so refreshing