My issue was with the expanded palette patch by Eggers, it simply refuses to work with RotDS and never will. And therefor wouldn't work with this expanded sprite patch that utilizes that patch for those extra palette colors I believe. It's an awesome patch, the expanded sprite patch, but even if I could get Eggers' code to work it would be unusable for RotDS now anyway due to the majority of NPCs being custom and expanded in all crazy sorts of ways. But again, great for other projects!
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