FBX wrote:Higan applies a uniform repeating pattern of 8, 8, 8, 9 to evenly distribute the colors in the full 0 - 255 range. Meanwhile the Super Nt has a weird stretch in the blacks and a pinch in the whites. Furthermore, the Super Nt's range is condensed to 0 - 245, which explains the washed out appearance.
I've sent a link to the image to Kevtris in the hopes this might trigger an idea on how to better convert the colors to 8-bit format like Higan does.
Good stuff. You should do the same for the red, green and blue colors seperately as well and make clear to Kevtris that red is not pure red for example.
Fudoh wrote:maybe we have a different understanding of "washed out". You usually get a washed out image when the black levels are raised. By ending the range at 245/255 you get slightly muted whites, but that's about it. The washed out image effect is more likely caused by the increased gamma in the lower brightness areas (which you've shown above).
In this case its primarily because in the colorbar capture by FBX full red is 213,16,0, full green is 24,236,0 and full blue is 2,0,253 and is clipped at the last 4 bars. So with such a muted red its going to look washed out.