[Coco] Thexder RGB vs Composite Mode.
Robert Gault
robert.gault at att.net
Wed Dec 21 15:26:58 EST 2011
Mark Ormond wrote:
> Actually, what I meant is the cart is never selecting the composite colors. It always is selecting RGB regardless if I am holding clear when I power on or not.
>
I just tried changing the CMP colors and running the game in MESS. The CLEAR key
was held down while MESS was started and/or Hard Started and MESS was set for
CMP. The title screen was not changed (still using RGB colors) but the game
itself now had almost the same colors as the game does in RGB mode.
It looks like the color set does not get changed until after the title screen is
displayed which is a silly bug. That along with an incorrect palette set means
the game must be patched for CMP monitors if you want the right colors.
Here are the RGB colors used in the game and the CMP values I think match. The
values were obtained with visual comparisons while running MESS, so they may not
be quite the same on a real Coco3. Again, you can't perfectly match all RGB
colors with CMP colors.
RGB $ 0 4 36 12 20 24 2d 27 1 2d 9 39 38 3c 39 3f
RGB T 0 4 54 18 32 36 45 39 1 45 9 57 56 60 57 63
CMP T 0 6 36 18 7 23 40 22 12 40 12 43 32 56 43 63
CMP $ 0 6 24 12 7 17 28 16 c 28 c 2b 20 38 2b 3f
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