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Most of my compilers and tools for genesis are Windows so a Windows version would be very handy. My nightmare is trying to properly register the 16 colors of my images (in other tools). Also, tools incorrectly quantizing imported images (i.e. picking a purple color for water when I have a blue color in the palette).

David Oberlin2 years ago(+1)

Hi theloon,

I had similar frustrations. There's a logical error in v.0.0.1 that I've fixed where the color quantization happened after the channel translation. I'll post an update asap. Thanks for your interest!

David

David Oberlin280 days ago(+1)

Hello theloon,

I have just released a tool that should solve some of the issues with mapping the Mega Drives palette to an image: https://dieskaarj.itch.io/blast-o-rama

Best regards,

David

theloon280 days ago (1 edit)

That looks very interesting! Is there any way to include the Imagemagick .dll with your software? Despite trying several things on Imagemagicks website and several web searches I can't get the utility to run in Windows 10.

David Oberlin280 days ago

I'm looking into it! Thanks.

David Oberlin279 days ago(+1)

As a stop gap, I have compiled nearly every library that I can think it needs into the new zip. I am going to reconfigure ImageMagick so that most so this will not be required in future. But, for the meantime this should work.

Let me know how it goes. Thanks.

theloon278 days ago

Including all those .dll files did the trick. The exported file is something I'll have to figure out. Seems to have a whole bunch of RGB values. Many more entries than just 16 colors.

David Oberlin278 days ago(+1)

The colours were being mapped to the MD/Gen colourspace post quantization. Which opened a window of opportunity for microtones (relative to the colourspace) to be remapped after the initial cull.

TL;DR: It should work now.

Thank you for your help here.