• Hawke@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Because the instructions, “draw a brick here, a pipe there, here are the rules for how jumping works, etc.” are smaller than “these pixels are blue, that one is orange, that one is white, etc.”

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      4 months ago

      Also, the jpeg is going to store each pixel as a 8bit x3, Rgb (255 *3), color pallette for the color code, whereas the nes was limited to only 56 colors.

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        More: that palette was hard coded and the actual in use palettes were even smaller subsets of the system palette to reduce memory demand