If MSX2 games do not use SCREEN 8 widely, how can they achieve the apparent much richer color fidelity?
It always appeared to me that those games were using much more than 16 colors on the screen.
Palette registers allow you to hand-pick those 16 colours from a total of 512, in stead of 16 ugly fixed ones. (Actually that’s 256 colours more than screen 8 offers 
.) It’s a constraint, and a tough one, but enough for really nice pictures, just check out games like Fray and Aleste 2, or the MCCM art gallery section.
Screen 5 is chosen for games because commands execute twice as fast as screen 8, and 128K fits four screen pages in stead of two. Also graphics data is twice as small on disk, I suppose that also matters.
It's funny as the msx is i think the only 8 bit computer from the past (besides game consoles) that had so many possibilities if it is about graphics it even has a vdp! bit of topic.. But are there games in screen 8 created in the past?
