Image Formats

N64 supports a variety of image formats. When specifying images, the format property may optionally be specified to instruct the system how to encode the image. In framework 64, the default image format is rgba16 and will be used by default if no specific image is specified.

For additional information on each image format refer to N64 Squid's Image Format Page

List of Image file formats

Note: image format specifications are not case sensitive.

Format	Description
rgba16	Default image format. 2 bytes per pixel. R5/G5/B5/A1
rgba32	4 Bytes per pixel: R8/G8/B8/A8
ia8	1 byte per pixel I7/A1
ia4	4 bits per pixel I3/A1/I3/A1
i8	1 byte per pixel: I8
i4	4 bits per pixel: I4/I4
ci8	8 bit color lookup per pixel. Max colors 256.
ci4	4 bit color lookup per pixel. Max colors 16.