I don’t expect to get the appearance and nostalgia perfectly accurate for the  
‘old late 80s/early 90s DOS adventure game’ feeling,  
but I am still open to constructive criticism.
 
@JP  
Separate palettes for each screen you say?  
You mean each scene? Like for example:  
one for Twilight walking in cave, one for friends outside cave,  
one for closer view of Twilight walking, one for close-up dragon, one for close-up of Twilight?
 
That does make sense, thank you for the input.  
Not sure I want to go back to redo the whole thing again so soon, but maybe sometime.
 
Actually, I was intending to upload the smaller scene of Twilight’s friends peeking around corner of cave entrance.  
That was the only part I was really disappointed about, color-wise.  
Awkward to have Rainbow Dash’s and Rarity’s bodies become part of the sky!
 
@sangf  
I feel like the pixel quality is mostly right for the truly old dos adventure games,  
though it could perhaps be a little clearer.  
If I still redo the color palette for each separate scene, I’ll consider reducing the pixel blur too.

it doesn’t look like a vga or ega and the pixelation effect doesn’t look right to me when it comes to old games idk how old like doom ish time or older they kept the some what the same quality nearly it only starts getting bad if its really small theres not enough pixels (i think)

@Background Pony #1537  
It’s supposed to look like an old video game cutscene.

What’s up with the crap quality?

Too much dithering. Regardless of how many colors there were (EGA’s 16 or VGA’s 256), the palette was optimized separately for each screen, so color gradients looked mostly smooth.
 
For resolution, try multiplies of 320x200, like 640x400 and 960x600.

@Amethyst_Crystal  
All the information you could possibly need is at your fingertips.

@Latios381  
This is a good point. Definitely should lower fps.
 
@Background Pony #6467  
Kinda yeah. I ought to try this out a bit more pixelated.
 
@QueenCold  
My reference point was my own memories of old pc gaming.  
If you have any informative advice like some other comments, I’d be happy to hear it.

I’d hardly call this an attempt. You did not even educate yourself about the technology of the time.

Reminds me of the Gameboy Advance Videos. Remember those? They had the same quality as this gif. However it was slightly less sharp than this gif.

dictus sanctum crappolis

If it ran at like 15fps, would be more accurate.

@RoyalFlank  

 
I meant to say PC game, not videogame, if that makes a difference.
 
Also yay, 800th stylistic suck tag.  
Removed your potato quality tag cause there’s aforementioned tag. This was intentional suck.

@Amethyst_Crystal  
Well… You failed. 8 bit or 16 bit retro style achieved not only through colors but through animation itself.

@RoyalFlank  
Yes, I was trying to go for an old videogame look.  
Dragons and treasure and stuff.
 
I was considering trying the Rarity scene with the dragon, but she looked actually really bad in this quality.  
So I might upload that scene normally.

So apparently saving GIF with potato quality settings counts as attempt to do something?

@JP  
Actually, its the color appearance and filtering that I focused on, but yes on resolution too big.
 
I set the color map to ‘8 colors’ though…  
I think it only looks more than that because of the grain filter redistributing colors.  
Or its just not really 8 colors…
 
@toxicitzi  
good point.

@JP  
true.
 
I was thinking this is more alike early CD quality.

Too high resolution for 80’s games. And if you really want to be authentic, you shouldn’t use more than 16 colors.