Hello dudes.
These are some spriteworks done by me, depicting SotN if it had been ported to the NES. A "demake" if you will. Some considerations are important:
-I know that it's pratically impossible to do what I did on the real NES. My intention is more to "imitate" the NES style than to do a complete, 100% NES limited art. It's an artwork intended for "imagining", not "developing".
-Alucard is made of two sprites, Mega-Man style. One for himself, another for his cape, which can change colors depending on what he is wearing. I'm still thinking if it would not be cooler to change his darkest color to depict the current cape instead of having a new sprite, like the old games used to do when wanting to show you that the character had a different equipment on. Oh well~
-Palette color-count on screen/per object, and tile-sizes/positioning were respected. HOWEVER real NES hardware palette limitations were not...
Probably... A NES game palette is not free to pick and choose any color you want. It requires you to choose a set of colors from a pre-determined palette, then choosing the RGB inclination of hues and saturation for all the colors you have choosen for the game. It's pretty obvious I simply picked any color that fancied me, even though most of then came from the original NES palette...
Probably...-I did my best to respect the 256 bg tile-count per screenshot, but considering the nature of the game, this is one of the aspects that demonstrate how it'd be impossible on the real NES. The "Load CD" room being the greatest offender of the 256 bg tile-count rule. Even though a friend of mine counted the tiles and said they were ok, I'm still pretty sure it goes beyond the limit somewhere...
-Finally, there is some "adaptation" going on on the rooms. If you look carefully, some details were modified intentionally to fit the restrictions I respected. The Doppelganger room being the most obvious, as the portal in the middle is not multicolored and bright, having a "swirl" on the middle.
-In my defense I scream "Summer Carnival '92 Recca!" and may the art gods be with me xD