Wrong colors/palette when starting game

[najk]

Hi!

Kind of a newbie here but I've done some of the tutorials all the way through.
I do not understand why I'm getting the wrong palette when starting the game.
Or maybe not the wrong palette, but the colors are off.

 

[dale_coop]

In fact, the NES colors are not real colors... it's just indexed colors (numbers). Every system interprets those indexed colors like they wants, NES, NES-clones, emulators...
You will never get the same result if you test on emulation, on a real nes, on a famicom, on a NTSC tv, on a PAL tv, ... always different results (sometimes between NES versions too).
It's also the reason why in the emulator's settings, you can choose which "palette" you want to use ... it means which rendered colors you prefer.
NES colors are just approximative colors.

You will never get the same colors than NESmaker. Sure, you could tell MESEN to use the same rendered palette than NESmaker, like explained here for example: https://www.nesmakers.com/index.php?threads/nesmaker-palette-for-mesen.3432/
But it would be just for you, on your pc...

I suggest to play your game on a real hardware... because most people will play your game the way.

 

[najk]

Thx!
I get that but this aint close. And I've not seen this big difference before.
Will try on real hardware!
One of the colors went from light brown -> 100% black here and the darker once are still there.

 

[najk]

I also notice that My player has the correct colors. I think something is off with My Palette. Will restart and try some stuff

 

[TakuikaNinja]

I advise you to use black as the first colour in the background palettes since it seems to be the most prominent colour used.
And apply this fix if you haven't already: [4.5] Quick fix for the 1st screen/sprite color palette issue
In terms of NES colour palettes, I prefer the Smooth (FBX) option present in Mesen.