Anyone care to check something for me. . . .
Note: Everything was converted using Rilden's Tiled Palette Quantization tool, so all the colours and colours-per-tile limits, bits per channel, etc., should be fully accurate to each of the consoles. And they were all converted using the same settings for the shared colour index, dithering, and the like too, with no touch-up or alteration to the output image quality. If I have it correct, all three games would use one background layer for the main background using the max amount of colours they
It's just sprites. You can only do color math between two planes (main and sub... and sub can be substituted for a color window instead). It just about rendering sprites to obj-palettes 0-3 and 4-7. Sprites with pal 4-7 can be used for the shadowing here.
But his demo again gets it wrong.. there's a part in his video where Alucard's shadow overlaps one of the goombas.
You would get a weird clipping issues. All the "shadow" sprites would have to be behind all t
