Monochrome Badges

The technology just wasn't there yet.

DS limitations anon, it was the best they could do

They probably thought "this will look cool, no one will even notice we did them in monochrome."

I guess rule of cool outweighed "doing it properly" this time.

>>28703938
>DS Limitations
I doubt it. The only part of the DS that Gen 4 even came close to pushing to its limit was the cartridge capacity, and decreasing the palette size of sixteen 30x30 sprites would save a few kilobytes at most.

Can someone explain to me what the limitations were that meant they had to do these in monochrome? I don't actually recall checking this screen during HGSS so, naturally, I don't remember this.

>>28703983
I>>28703996
Those two replies were clearly jokes, referring to the excuses people make about Gen 1 and 2. There were limitations on their ability to color the badges, it was a design choice.

It think it was meant to be a nostalgic thing.

I found it a bit crappy to go from cool D/P badges to this shit, I would've loved to have seen the Gen 1-2 badges in a more detailed form.

Nostalgia reasons.

>>28704013
>Those two replies were clearly jokes, referring to the excuses people make about Gen 1 and 2

>excuses

I know you 8yo and think video game consoles started with the playstation 3, but the OG gameboy was really, really limited on what you could do. a game of the scope and ambition of pokemon not only being finished but even being playable is a miracle

>>28703519
It was a design choice. They opted to have the badges match the color of the "league" they were part of, rather than looking like they came out of a box of cereal.

>>28703519
No the real issue is that no other league has an official champion badge like Kanto/Johto.