A red Koopa Troopa from Super Mario Bros. is able to discern ledges and turn around. A palette-swapped green Koopa Troopa falls to its doom.

The palette swap is a practice often used in video games, whereby a graphic that is already used for one element is given a different palette so that it can be reused for other elements. The different palette gives the new graphic a unique set of colors which make it recognizably distinct from the original. It is commonly used to distinguish between first and second players, for creating visual hierarchies, and for making visually disinct areas for the levels in the game. For example, in the first Super Mario Bros., Luigi (the second player character) was a palette swap of Mario (the first player character); Koopa Troopa enemies were palette swaps of each other; the underground levels contained palette swaps of all enemies, power ups, coins, and bricks. Image File history File links Screenshot taken from Super Mario Bros. ... Image File history File links Screenshot taken from Super Mario Bros. ... A red Koopa Troopa from the Super Mario Bros. ... Super Mario Bros. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... Computer graphics (CG) is the field of visual computing, where one utilizes computers both to generate visual images synthetically and to integrate or alter visual and spatial information sampled from the real world. ... An artists palette A palette is: A thin board that a painter holds and mixes colour pigments on. ... In computer and video games, a level (sometimes called a stage, course, episode, round, world, map, wave, board, phase, or landscape) is a separate area in a games virtual world, in modern games typically representing a specific location such as a building or a city. ... Super Mario Bros. ... Luigis current appearance. ... For over 20 years, Mario has been the official video game mascot for Nintendo. ... A red Koopa Troopa from the Super Mario Bros. ... Upon contact with this Super Mushroom, Mario earns 1000 points and doubles in size In video games, power-ups are objects which add extra abilities to the game character, and/or increase the players score upon being collected. ...

Sometimes palette swaps are used to signify a character's status. For example, in the Mega Man games, Mega man has different palettes depending on which weapon he is using. Another example from Super Mario Bros. is that when Mario or Luigi gets a fire flower, he will get a palette swap to show that he has the fireball power. Mega Man firing his weapon while in Shadow Mans stage from Mega Man 3 (NES). ...

This is a very common technique used in many RPGs, such as the Final Fantasy series, to increase the number of monsters to fight. Typically a palette-swapped enemy contains a strength or ability which is greater or different than that of the preceding differently colored creature. As games have moved to 3D, this is often enhanced by changes in textures, patterns, or the addition of extra features. In Tales of Symphonia, for example, humanoid enemies are usually given entirely different sets of clothing. Computer role-playing games (CRPGs), often shortened to simply role-playing games (RPGs), are a type of video or computer game that traditionally uses gameplay elements found in paper-and-pencil role-playing games. ... Though each Final Fantasy story is independent, many themes and elements of gameplay recur throughout the series. ... The rewrite of this article is being devised at Talk:3D computer graphics/Temp. ... Tales of Symphonia (Japanese: テイルズオブシンフォニア, Teiruzu obu Shinfonia) is a role-playing video game produced by Namco. ... The term humanoid refers to any being whose body structure resembles that of a human. ...

In many fighting games such as Mortal Kombat, multiple characters have been created from a single set of sprites by applying a different palette. Some examples from the Mortal Kombat series are listed below: Screenshot of Kung Fu Master. ... Mortal Kombat is a 1992 fighting game by Midway. ... This article may be too technical for most readers to understand. ...

• Male Ninja - Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Reptile, Smoke, Rain, Ermac, Noob Saibot, and Chameleon.
• Female Ninja - Kitana, Mileena, Jade, and Khameleon.
• Cyber-Ninja - Cyrax, Sektor, and Smoke.

A similar technique, called the head swap, was used in games such as the early Street Fighter series. Characters such as Ryu, Ken, Akuma, and Dan all have similar or identical styles, and their sprites typically differ only in the color of their gis, and small differences such as their heads, hands, or sleeves. Almost all fighting games, however, allow different costumes of playable characters, partially to differentiate between two players using the same character. Sub-Zero is the name of two video game characters from the Mortal Kombat series. ... Scorpion is a character from the fighting game series Mortal Kombat. ... Reptile is a character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Smoke also known as Unit LK7T2, is a video game character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Rain is a character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Ermac in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. ... Noob Saibot is a character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Chameleon is a hidden character (or quasi-character) in Mortal Kombat Trilogy. ... Kitana is a character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Mileena in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. ... Jade is a character in the fighting game series of Mortal Kombat. ... Khameleon is a secret character in the video game series of Mortal Kombat. ... Cyrax (a. ... Sektor, also known as Unit LK9T9 is a character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Smoke also known as Unit LK7T2, is a video game character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Head swapping is the act of removing the head from an animated character and replacing it with a different one. ... Screenshot of Street Fighter (arcade version). ... Ryu Ryu (リュウ or 隆 Ryū, meaning Prosperity in Japanese) is a video game character created by Capcom, and is the main character of the Street Fighter series. ... Ken Masters Ken Masters (ケン・マスターズ or 拳, his first name, in Japanese, means Fist) is a video game character created by Capcom. ... For other uses, see Akuma. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Fighting Game Moves/Capcom/Dan Hibiki Dan Hibiki Dan Hibiki (火引 弾: Hibiki Dan), is a character from Capcoms Street Fighter series of fighting games. ... Keikogi (稽古着 or 稽古衣) is a Japanese word which means Uniform for training (Keiko means practice, gi means dress or clothes). ...

A more general term for the technique is "recolor." Within the sprite comic and pixel art communities, recolors are looked down upon as amateur work, requiring little or no effort. Sprite comics are webcomics that use video game sprites and backgrounds for their artwork. ... This monster (The Gunk) is an example of pixel art drawn using Microsoft Paint Pixel art is a form of digital art, created on the computer through the use of raster graphics software, where images are edited on the pixel level. ...