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    Custom NES palette?

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      I am going to be playing a romhack for an NES game, and it came with a color palette. I am trying to load it, but I don't understand how. I read to put the palette in "\\RETROPIE\bios\palettes" which I did. When I go into the RGUI settings to swap the palette, though, the palette is not listed. I see a bunch of other choices for color palettes that I didn't see in "\\RETROPIE\bios\palettes" though (which only had default.pal before I added the NES palette I am trying to use).

      How do I apply the palette?

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        mitu Global Moderator
        last edited by mitu

        Some of the palettes are built-in into the emulator and they don't have a file on disc associated. Only when you choose custom as the core option you need to provide a palette file in the BIOS folder.

        The name of the file depends on the emulator, if you're using the default NES emulator (fceumm), then the file must be named nes.pal, see https://docs.libretro.com/library/fceumm/#custom-color-palettes. If you're using the nestopia core, the file is named custom.pal.

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