PIXEL PALETTE PRO - THE Authentic Pixel Art Making Tool

What is Pixel Palette Pro?

Pixel Palette Pro is a pixel sprite editor that locks your palette to a real retro console's color capability, so what you draw could actually run on the hardware you're drawing for. Pick a system, NES, SNES, Genesis, Game Boy, GBA, and every pixel you lay down snaps into that machine's gamut. No more "authentic" sprites that quietly use three hundred colors the console never had.

I build games and I needed a sprite tool for my own asset pipeline that put hardware-accurate palettes first instead of buried in a settings menu. I couldn't find it, so I made it. This is the editor I use to make my own game art, I'm selling the tool I already rely on, this is not a side experiment.

• No subscription.
• No DRM.
• No account.
• No phone-home, no analytics, no cloud.
• No AI generation. You draw it, it's yours.

You buy the build, it's yours. You're paying for the ready-to-run binary and to fund the next tool.

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Core Features

System-Locked Palettes:

NES (64-color master), SNES / GBA (15-bit, 32,768 colors), Genesis (9-bit, 512 colors), Game Boy (4-shade green). Every painted pixel snaps into the chosen system's gamut. Optional per-sprite color-count limits for true console authenticity.

Full Tool Kit:

Pencil, sized brush, eraser, fill (contiguous or global), eyedropper, line, rectangle, mirror (horizontal / vertical / both), and rectangular select + move. Foreground/background pair with editable hex and swap.

Photoshop-Style Layers:

Add, delete, duplicate, reorder, merge down, show/hide, per-layer opacity, live composited preview, and thumbnails.

Reference Tracing:

Drop in any image as a floating reference that scales and moves freely, independent of the pixel grid, Alt+drag to position it, Alt+wheel to size it. Set its opacity, put it under or over your art, and bake it into a palette-snapped layer when you want to trace it. Eyedrop straight from the reference and the color snaps to the system's nearest valid one, trace with hardware-accurate colors, not guesses.

Animation Timeline:

Multiple frames, playback at a chosen FPS, loop, onion-skinning of neighboring frames, and frame thumbnails. Preview motion the way it would run on the real machine.

Export That Matters:

Palette-accurate PNG, SVG vector (every pixel a real rectangle, stays knife-sharp at any zoom or print DPI, never blurs), packed sprite sheet, and animated GIF. Atomic .pxpro project save/load that round-trips every layer, frame, and palette choice.

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Made With Pixel Palette Pro

Every pixel of the SONIKK logo was drawn in Pixel Palette Pro. The tool makes the art on its own store page.

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Yours to Mod

The build ships its resources as loose files. Swap the tool icons, retint the chrome — edit the `resources/` folder, restart, see your changes. No recompile.

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No Surveillance. Full Ownership.

We don't know who you are, and we don't want to.

Pixel Palette Pro does not:

- Phone home.

- Send analytics.

- Collect user data.

- Track anything.

It runs fully offline. Once it's downloaded, you never need a connection again. It's your tool, on your machine.

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System Requirements

- Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit.

- A few hundred MB of disk.

- The build is unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen may warn "unknown publisher" on first run. Click "More info" then "Run anyway." That's the cost of not renting a certificate from an authority.

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Support the Dev

Bugs / questions: cerealboxgamesdev@gmail.com

Not affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo, Sega, or any console maker. System names describe color compatibility only.

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Pixel Palette Pro by CerealBoxGames.