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Fading the screen out and in again can be a nice effect when you want to make the transition from one screen to the next a little bit smoother.
On the SMS the color values of each of the 32 palette entries are stored in a single byte in the format %00bbggrr, where b is blue, g is green and r is red. As you can see, each of the channels can have a value of 0, 1, 2, or 3. Since you don't want to mess with the actual palette, manipulating the data before writing it to CRAM seems like a good idea.
This example expects a copy of the palette in RAM at the label PaletteBuffer for easy access, but that is not really necessary. You can substitute a valid address in ROM where palette data is stored instead.
Note that the code below does not really generate a proper fade. In the first step of the fade-out (and the second of the fade-in), all color values of 2 remain unchanged, only the 3s and the 1s are manipulated. Usually, the fading happens too quickly to notice, though.
Contributed by Kagesan, last edited 2014/06/25 by Kagesan