Skychase2rebirth suggested a different, blue and black palette for the second act of volcano valley to mimic lava reef, and that made me think, it would be really cool if every second act of each zone had a slightly different palette to break monotony and make every zone unique! We could see the return of the green tiles in green grove, and make an interesting evolution of the atmosphere of each world, which would be a nice way to enrich the look closer to the Saturn textures, without any extra data or graphics.
Do you like this idea?
Would that be too much work?
What other palettes swap would you like to see?
Speaking of the unique palettes per act. I really loved that greenish look of the first zone. Would be really, really cool to have it in one act or another!
Yes, looking at the code they do in fact also share Sonic's palette, that is why Knuckles' socks are blue in game. I do have an idea though, as soon as Tails and Knuckles appear, a palette change should happen replacing an off-screen color with colors for them. I don't know if it's entirely possible, however... Would be neat!
Mind blown. I can see that now! Do tails and knuckles share the same palette too? There are some lighter yellows up to white in tails colours, but I don't know if that would be possible to use those without redoing the ring sprite entirely I suppose... Ah well.
That would be difficult seeing as the rings share Sonic's palette and the Genesis can't display many palettes at once.
I was also thinking the gold effect of the rings is a bit dull in 3dblast, maybe a lighter yellow tone would give the impression of the right metal?