All black areas, including outlines and black eyes, flash grey. 1:46 a spell is cast that makes the background flash grey. When you are on the blue background screen 0:27), the outlines and the black mage's face are the blue of the background (ie: there is no black outline, it's transparent). Here's a video on YouTube with lots of good examples. However, despite the black outlines on the sprite-sheet, I can't find any real examples of black outlines in the game. Therefore, IF a black outline is shown, then it must be on a separate layer. the color masks, you can see that black and transparent use the same color mask. I matched a few bitmaps and end-results here.Įach character has a color that is mostly relegated to top part of the sprite so I chased that idea a while. (btw: staring at extracted ROM bitmaps is really bloody hard on your eyes!) I finally broke down and downloaded the ROM and extracted the bitmaps with NAPIT.
