01-01-2017, 03:59 PM
And then you have Mario Maker's NES Mario sprite which is a pretty good blend of the two, haha.
There really isn't a NES palette better than any other. Even Nintendo hasn't been consistent with their color choice in more modern representations of NES games (WarioWare's NES Mario has completely different colors from Animal Crossing's NES Mario, for example) so that's not really a great reference point either. Picking an emulator and sticking with whatever palette it utilizes is as close as anything will be.
There really isn't a NES palette better than any other. Even Nintendo hasn't been consistent with their color choice in more modern representations of NES games (WarioWare's NES Mario has completely different colors from Animal Crossing's NES Mario, for example) so that's not really a great reference point either. Picking an emulator and sticking with whatever palette it utilizes is as close as anything will be.