Because it does

Mostly did this as an exercise in picking out GBA-compliant palettes (which I may or may not have pulled off, since there may be other limitations I'm unaware of), but any excuse to make Eggbug fanart is a good one! Apparently the GBA (and SNES) actually uses 15-bit color, which someone helpfully converted to 16-bit RGB levels so you can do it in art programs that don't support weird color ranges. I actually had a few other colors picked out that I didn't use, and even then I came in under the "16* colors per sprite" limit, so if I wanted I could probably actually do a few more intermediate colors and smooth the shading out a bit more.

*15 if there's transparency, since that takes up a color; either way this is only 8 + alpha, so 7 more colors is plenty of wiggle room

(Just kidding I'm bad at Mega Man and need the normal type too, oh god oof ouch ow my ceramic titanium)

"oh wow, @gundam-screencaps has 12 notifications, did it post g-witch again? ... yup, there it is"

i like this website lol <3

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