Sorry for the late reply, the scene is top down. It does exceed the limit by a lot. If I was to display text it wouldn’t work because the extra tiles overflow into the memory reserved for text. I also use actors to gain extra tiles such as the tire animation and badges on the bike. I use actors to get around the 3 colour limit pretty often too.
Core game is done now. Just Music and sfx, few fixes to go now. Wooh!