Palettes
15-Bit BGR Format
The Super Nintendo / Super Famicom stores it's palette in 512 bytes in a 15-bit BGR format. Each BGR word is 2 bytes, thus it is 512 bytes for 256 colors (256 x 2). The format for each BGR word looks like this:
0BBBBBGG GGGRRRRR
Bit 15 is unused and should be set to 0. Each color value can range from 0 - 31. So a R, G, B value of 31, 31, 31 represents white. As ...