# Genesis color pallet on aseprite?

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**Created:** [November 7, 2023, 7:09pm UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/genesis-color-pallet-on-aseprite/20525 "2023-11-07T19:09:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Olga\_Galvanova](https://community.aseprite.org/user_avatar/community.aseprite.org/olga_galvanova/32/3294_2.png) [@Olga\_Galvanova](https://community.aseprite.org/u/Olga_Galvanova)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 12:59pm UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/genesis-color-pallet-on-aseprite/20525/2 "2023-11-08T12:59:05Z")

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hi there! usually you would load palette in gimp’s gpl format, since aseprite can’t generate a palette with more than 256 entries from image.

example of gpl palette:

> **[Genesis 512 Color Palette by pixeltao](https://pixeltao.itch.io/genesis-512-color-palette)**
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> All 512 colors of the Sega Genesis organized in a user-friendly palette.

afaik there’s a lot of discussion over the actual rgb values of colours in cases like sega consoles, so i can’t comment on whether this is a proper palette or not.

how to load / save palettes:

> [@Help with Loading and Saving Palettes](https://community.aseprite.org/t/help-with-loading-and-saving-palettes/2679/2):
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> You can save and load palettes from the menu at the top of the palette:[image] You can save them anywhere and load them from anywhere. If you want them to show up in the Presets list so that you don’t have to load them for new documents, I believe you’d need to place them in a folder in {your Aseprite folder}/data/extensions, and provide a package.json that tells Aseprite that the file is a palette and has other information about it. You can use the existing palettes as a guide. If you select …

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