This is gonna be a weird question. You see, I am making a game in rpg2k3. Entirely in MS paint, which is as difficult as you'd expect. I've actually made a lot of progress surprisingly. But my main issue is with 256 bmp conversion. I have trouble trying to predict what colors will convert to what. Are there any color charts I can use for this? Or some way around it?
Unless you can do some complex math stuff and understand this, there’s no way to predict it from what I’ve seen.
Back in the day you’d get around this using the program InfanView if I remember correctly (it came out in 2003 so it’s not really cheating). This website says it converts stuff to PNG-8 (the format you’d need) and this one converts stuff to PNG-8 as well (you can even play with how many colors you want it to convert to, and can do it for 20 images at a time!). If not, I’d download paint.net and then convert it from there (it is also old so not really cheating).
Hope this helps :,)
