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Does it though? This is a very compressable image. It’s around 30kb on my system, and that’s with the extra text on top

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I love how mouseover text doesn’t quite display correctly on my mobile browser, especially with that one.

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The game only had 16 colors (4bit) and a resolution of 256x240. If you store it in the original dimensions and apply loseless compression it could be much smaller.

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I wander what it will be in some modern format like WEBP or JPEG XL.

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This isn’t a fair comparison.

The game should get to go through the same compression algorithms first.

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That’s just not possible, game data is not image data. For example image compression is lossy and based on quadtree representations etc., how would you apply this to code and sprites?

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So you think running a video game through a jpeg compressor would be a bad idea?

I’m ready to roll up my sleeves, man. A little elbow grease can work miracles.

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We use BMP in this house, mister! As the Lord defined in the Bible

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