<p>I&#39;m staring at this code going &quot;if it was less 2am, I could understand this math&quot;</p>

<p>interesting: the same function is called to fade a palette TO black and to fade a palette FROM black</p><p>I wonder if it&#39;s specialized to just be palette to black and vice versa, or if it does arbitrary fades between two palettes?</p>

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<p>this set_palette code got loaded into the segment 0BBC, one of the only 16-bit DOS segments marked red in shinigami eyes</p>

<p>(approximately 1536 times)</p>

<p>or maybe not? it&#39;s too 2am to tell.</p><p>ANYWAY I&#39;m currently debugging through a function that&#39;s 256 palette entry uploads and my debugger has no &quot;run until return&quot; function so I have to manually hit next instruction SO MANY TIMES</p>

<p>ahh, nope! I misidentified it.<br />the second parameter on set_palette is how many frames to set it for. <br />The same palette gets set. </p><p>it vsyncs every time so this is a set_palette that&#39;s also a timing function</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> </p><p>Oh, this gets my brain accelerating at a pace I am not comfortable with... 🤣</p>

<p>&quot;hey ghidra what calls set_palette?&quot;</p><p>&quot;I don&#39;t know! you&#39;re in 16bit segmented mode! pointers are MEANINGLESS</p>