Most of the boss could be put on the background layer, and the only part of it that overlaps with the background, its fin, could be recreated with sprites, maybe you could even change the background color per scanline to replace some background tiles, resulting in even less overlap. There would still be a lot of flicker, of course.

Oct 22, 2022, 10:49 PM

Takerboi365

Sheet:
Dry Bones

wild how this game was the last to use this design for the dry bones, both for the Paper Mario series and the Mario series as a whole

Oct 22, 2022, 10:17 PM

yiey20

Sheet:
Cheep Cheeps

@TomAndTheCats green Deep Cheeps didn't appear in SMB1, I'll add them to my sheet once I make SMB3 enemies

Oct 22, 2022, 10:15 PM

Alxala

Sheet:
Title Screen

Where are the language select elements & the company logos used in this game?

Oct 22, 2022, 9:20 PM

Yoshimallow

Sheet:
Krang

Fear the wrath of SUPER KRANG!

Oct 22, 2022, 9:03 PM

Alxala

Sheet:
Game Over Screen

EEK!!! That is 100% scary!

Oct 22, 2022, 8:59 PM

shadowman44

Sheet:
Vinny (Family Guy Desk Buddy-Style)

Does Vinny really count as "reoccurring"? He appeared in 2 1/2 episodes like they said below and also had a few cameos. Maybe put him in like "side" characters.

Oct 22, 2022, 8:58 PM

Alxala

Sheet:
SMB1 Enemies (Improved, NES-Style)

I wonder if the SMB1 Koopa Troopa would look like as an improved NES-style version. I like it btw!

Oct 22, 2022, 8:50 PM

thejohnston7

Sheet:
Bosses

The white Mouser with red ears only appears in Doki Doki Panic. It is replaced by Clawgrip in SMB2.

Oct 22, 2022, 8:40 PM

TheWhillieHotDogUGD

Game:
Street Fighter 2 / Super Street Fighter 2

The fact they gave a Japanese guy the name "Edmond" is absolutely beyond me.

Oct 22, 2022, 8:16 PM ^*

Maxio68

Sheet:
Gameplay Graphics

I see there's a right-side Survival lifebar; is that actually used anywhere in-game? (Survival can't be played in multiplayer, is there anywhere else it is used?)

Oct 22, 2022, 8:04 PM

Dr. NES

Sheet:
Encounter Swirls

@ton i think they used pallette swapping for those. i don't know though, i've only been past giant step

Oct 22, 2022, 8:00 PM

Dolphman

Sheet:
Big Bruty

@Yawackhary I wonder what's preventing the PC port from getting rereleased? The Whole Can O' Worms ports of both games are buggy and inferior despite the impressive redrawn graphics. (One of the main problems with the compilation is the fact they're missing levels and other things from the originals)

Oct 22, 2022, 7:47 PM

shadowman44

Sheet:
Princess Kurumi

Not to be confused with the Princess Kurumi from Ninja Princess.

Oct 22, 2022, 7:28 PM

shadowman44

Sheet:
Mario (Syobon Action-Style)

These sprites look like either parodies you would see in cartoons or the original NES commercials that tried to recreate the graphics.

I like em either way.

Oct 22, 2022, 7:26 PM

Yawackhary

Sheet:
Enemies

@Barrett I don't get what you mean...

If it's about the 64 tile limit for sprites that only applies in game (and not the ROM), then it is either well designed to make sure that there is some breathing space or more commonly it drops tiles once it gets to that limit. When you see parts of the sprite flash or even sprites themselves flash, it is called sprite flicker. The NES does suffer from sprite flicker, so does the Master System, even the Genesis and the SNES it can happen. There are a few ways of getting around this, you could have some of or most of the sprites be part of the background. It is usually used in bosses but is also used in a few Master System games on the cost... of... making... the... game... run... really... slow...

Also not all of them on the sheet is on the screen at a time, you generally only get a few enemies and bullets or just seeing one of the larger enemies. Due to the limitations of the NES and the game like most NES games has to use a mapper to get around the 40kb memory limit, the game is constantly adding and removing tiles. You usually don't see sprites get added (unless you go into another room and the enemies pop up) but you do see them getting removed when you kill enemies, bullets disappear or blocks where they break away.

If it's about all of the sprites on the sheet. Well... Tiles get reused, they can also be horizontally or vertically flipped meaning that it wouldn't take up as much space in the ROM. Also Mega Man 6 is a late NES game so it would have had a larger cartridge, so late that it never officially came out in PAL regions.

Looking into the ROM and Capcom was sloppy wasting quite a bit of space (lots of blank space, square blocks, checkered blocks, mentions of ZAKO, all not used in game, even a bit of leftover Japanese, probably enough space to squeeze another level or two actually)...

Oct 22, 2022, 7:26 PM

shadowman44

Sheet:
Mario (Great Giana Sisters-Style)

These are way better than the ones used in that crusty old hack.

Oct 22, 2022, 7:18 PM

Dolphman

Game:
Go! Go! Hypergrind

@MegaDrive2000 It sure is. Usually the main reason to check this game out. (Though it's also hard to enjoy it due to John K's list of controversies)

Oct 22, 2022, 6:58 PM

QuadFactor

Sheet:
Time Man (NES-Style)

Nice update!

Oct 22, 2022, 6:54 PM

Barrett

Sheet:
MegaKabuterimon Red

ew i dont remember this one from the show.

Oct 22, 2022, 6:15 PM

Doc von Schmeltwick

Sheet:
Mega Mech Shark

Considering an actual NES just plain WOULD NOT handle that many sprite tiles at once...

Oct 22, 2022, 6:01 PM

Barrett

Sheet:
Mega Man

this is the first megaman game i ever beat second was megaman 6

Oct 22, 2022, 5:53 PM

Barrett

Sheet:
Enemies

wait how do they have this many sprites if the nes could only hold 64?

Oct 22, 2022, 5:51 PM

Barrett

Sheet:
Wily Stage 3

boy does this look boring to play

Oct 22, 2022, 5:22 PM

Murphmario

Sheet:
Cannon (Kaboomba)

Does the existence of Calm Cannons confirm Kaboombas to be sentient creatures?

Oct 22, 2022, 5:13 PM

Striker777771

Sheet:
background6.gif

that would be a nice challange tbh

Oct 22, 2022, 4:59 PM

PGE

Sheet:
Post Special World Enemies (SMB3 NES-Style)

I'm pretty sure there's a "No G*g*l**k Stuff" policy on TSR

Oct 22, 2022, 4:28 PM

TomAndTheCats

Sheet:
Cheep Cheeps

Nice job on these!
...How come there's no green palette?

Oct 22, 2022, 4:10 PM

Bavoomian

Sheet:
Badniks

The Chaotix badniks shown here are as follows:

- Needlenose/Mosqui
- Piranha
- Unnamed Marina Madness badnik
- Floatsam
- Poptank
- Gutbuster

Oct 22, 2022, 4:01 PM

Bavoomian

Sheet:
Chomper

@SSK02: So...would that be Crazy Otto?

Oct 22, 2022, 3:35 PM

Tsukiyomaru0

Sheet:
Intro Cinematic

WAR: has never been so much! ♫

Oct 22, 2022, 2:59 PM

JuanElric

Game:
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Nice. Didn't expect this to be updated.

Oct 22, 2022, 2:42 PM

Yawackhary

Sheet:
Big Bruty

@Dolphman I think it's all down to not having the source code or the materials (or couldn't be bothered emulating the Mega CD since it's a bit trickier than just the Mega Drive). Outside of the Mega CD, only the PC got the Special Edition and even then the PC also got a non-SE port yet retaining the music (was it the Can O' Worms pack or something?).

Most ports, emulation or the HD remake seem to reference either the Mega Drive or the SNES versions, more so on the latter. Then again most of these were cash grabs anyway...

Oct 22, 2022, 2:33 PM

Doc von Schmeltwick

Game:
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga

So much non-transparent shadows here aaaaaaaa

Oct 22, 2022, 2:18 PM

Striker777771

Sheet:
Game Over Screen

*Scream.ogg Plays*

Oct 22, 2022, 12:34 PM

MarshadowSlime

Sheet:
Oil Man (NES-Style)

@E253MechaShadow He was refering to the old version of this sprite sheet where it was kinda just a cutman edit