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System Presets

bitmapped ships with 54 hardware presets that faithfully reproduce the color palettes, resolutions, and rendering constraints of classic systems. Each preset configures the full processing pipeline — palette, dithering defaults, constraint solver, and display aspect ratio — so you can pixelate any image as if it were running on real hardware.

Categories

Nintendo (8)

Game Boy (DMG, Pocket, Color), NES (NTSC, PAL), SNES, GBA, Virtual Boy

Sega (4)

Master System, Genesis (NTSC, PAL), Game Gear

Home Computers (20)

C64 (Pepto, Colodore, Hires, Multicolor), ZX Spectrum, Apple II (Lo-Res, Hi-Res), Amiga (OCS, HAM6, EHB), VIC-20, Amstrad CPC (Mode 0, Mode 1), BBC Micro Mode 2, MSX, MSX2, Atari ST, Atari STE, Thomson MO5, Macintosh

IBM PC (8)

CGA (4 Mode 4 variants + Composite), Tandy 1000, EGA, VGA (Mode 13h, Mode 12h)

Arcade (5)

CPS-1, CPS-2, CPS-3, Sega System 16, Namco Galaxian

Other (5)

Atari 2600 (NTSC, PAL), PlayStation 1, Neo Geo, ColecoVision

Fantasy (3)

PICO-8, TIC-80, Picotron

NES

256x240
25 of 54 colors
16x16 attribute blocks

Game Boy

160x144
4 of 4 colors
4 green shades

SNES

256x224
256 of 32768 colors
Per-tile palette

GBA

240x160
32768 of 32768 colors
15-bit RGB direct

Genesis

320x224
61 of 512 colors
9-bit RGB, nonlinear DAC

Master System

256x192
32 of 64 colors
Per-tile palette

Game Gear

160x144
32 of 4096 colors
12-bit RGB

Commodore 64

320x200
16 of 16 colors
Hires / multicolor modes

ZX Spectrum

256x192
15 of 15 colors
8x8 attribute clash

Apple II

280x192
6 of 6 colors
NTSC artifact colors

Amiga

320x256
4096 of 4096 colors
Hold-And-Modify

Atari 2600

160x192
4 of 128 colors
4 colors per scanline

PlayStation 1

320x240
32768 of 32768 colors
15-bit + ordered dither

Neo Geo

320x224
4096 of 65536 colors
16-bit color, 256 palettes

Palette modes

Presets use one of two palette modes:

  • Fixed-LUT — The preset contains a literal color table (NES, Game Boy, C64, CGA, PICO-8, etc.). The preset.palette property holds the full array of colors.
  • RGB bit-depth — The preset defines bits-per-channel via preset.colorSpace. Call enumerateColorSpace() from bitmapped/presets to generate the full palette at runtime (Genesis, Amiga, VGA, etc.).
import { getPreset, enumerateColorSpace } from 'bitmapped/presets';
 
// Fixed-LUT: palette is already available
const nes = getPreset('nes-ntsc');
console.log(nes.palette.length); // 54 colors
 
// RGB bit-depth: generate the palette from colorSpace
const genesis = getPreset('genesis');
const palette = enumerateColorSpace(genesis.colorSpace);
console.log(palette.length); // 512 colors (9-bit RGB)

Most presets with large color spaces (512+ colors) use RGB bit-depth mode. Presets with small, fixed palettes (4-256 colors) typically use Fixed-LUT mode.

All preset pages

  • NES — Nintendo Entertainment System (NTSC and PAL)
  • Game Boy — Game Boy DMG, Pocket, and Color
  • SNES — Super Nintendo Entertainment System
  • GBA — Game Boy Advance
  • Genesis — Sega Genesis / Mega Drive (NTSC and PAL)
  • Master System — Sega Master System
  • Game Gear — Sega Game Gear
  • ZX Spectrum — Sinclair ZX Spectrum
  • Commodore 64 — C64 with Pepto, Colodore, Hires, and Multicolor variants
  • Apple II — Apple II Lo-Res and Hi-Res
  • Amiga — Commodore Amiga OCS, HAM6, and EHB
  • Atari 2600 — Atari 2600 (NTSC and PAL)
  • PlayStation 1 — Sony PlayStation 1
  • Neo Geo — SNK Neo Geo

Interactive demos

Every preset page includes an interactive demo where you can upload your own image and see it processed with that system’s exact color constraints. Toggle dithering, compare before/after, and experiment with different distance algorithms.

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