09-03-2012, 11:56 PM
in the spirit of not being blunt, "16bits" has basically nothing to do with that. nothing at all. in fact 8/16bit has nothing to do with amount of colors or size of sprites under any circumstance.
what you described is more of an excuse to draw small sprites with poor color choices, wich is what people usually does out of poor asumptions/ignorance as to what the genesis/snes/nes did back in the 90's.
considering you are not working on something that will run under the hardware of any of these systems, do yourself a favor and apply said restrictions (color and size) out of purely aesthetic choices. mainly so you wouldn't sound like a dumb hipster.
what you described is more of an excuse to draw small sprites with poor color choices, wich is what people usually does out of poor asumptions/ignorance as to what the genesis/snes/nes did back in the 90's.
considering you are not working on something that will run under the hardware of any of these systems, do yourself a favor and apply said restrictions (color and size) out of purely aesthetic choices. mainly so you wouldn't sound like a dumb hipster.