that would be 31 colors including lifebar, and 27 without that stuff, i always just add the lifebar/etc to the pics i convert so i know the colors are in.
(i'm not totally sure about this number though, i have spotted a darker grey color in there somewhere so it could be 26.
like this.

I also don't seem to understand how MKII handles the palette, because i noticed that the sprite layer
is used for the character names, so either it uses the bg palette or the characters have a yellow color in their palette.
(or worse, there's 2 yellow colors, which means one wasted palette entry)
Too bad Smoke isn't here, i'm sure he could answer this better then me.
