true color sprites shouldnt show in non color modes

src/battle/BattleState.lua

@@ -234,7 +234,11 @@ local imageMeta = setmetatable({}, WEAK_KEYS)
 -- entirely, so its palette variant collapses back onto the plain path.
 local function getImage(path, pal, trueColor)
   if not path then return nil end
-  if trueColor then pal = nil end
+  if trueColor and require("src.render.PaletteFX").honorsTrueColor() then
+    pal = nil
+  else
+    trueColor = nil
+  end
   local key = pal and (path .. "#" .. pal.name) or path
   if not imageCache[key] then
     local img, pad, padL = nil, 0, 0

src/render/PaletteFX.lua

@@ -305,6 +305,13 @@ function PaletteFX.usesGbcPack(mode)
   return mode == "redpp"
 end
 
+function PaletteFX.honorsTrueColor()
+  if GameVersion.generation() >= 2 then
+    return require("src.render.GbcPalette").mode == "gbc"
+  end
+  return PaletteFX.mode == "redpp"
+end
+
 -- Yellow's authentic GBC look is CGBBasePalettes (per-map), not a boot-ROM
 -- auto-palette.  The shared `ogred` save id wears that table on a Yellow
 -- playthrough and labels itself "OG YELLOW".

src/render/Renderer.lua

@@ -641,6 +641,7 @@ end
 -- or empty zone list is left alone: that already draws the whole canvas
 -- unshaded, which is what the rects were asking for.
 local function withTrueColor(zoneList, pass)
+  if not PaletteFX.honorsTrueColor() then return zoneList end
   local rects = PaletteFX.trueColorRects(pass)
   if not (rects[1] and zoneList and zoneList[1]) then return zoneList end
   local merged = {}

src/render/SpriteRenderer.lua

@@ -234,8 +234,12 @@ function SpriteRenderer:gen2Obp()
     self.objGroup .. "|" .. tostring(GbcPalette.mode)
 end
 
+local function liveTrueColor(def)
+  return def and def.trueColor and PaletteFX.honorsTrueColor()
+end
+
 function SpriteRenderer:resolveImage()
-  if self.def.trueColor then return self.image end
+  if liveTrueColor(self.def) then return self.image end
   if self.objColors then
     return getObpImage(self.def.image, self:gen2Obp())
   end
@@ -289,7 +293,7 @@ function SpriteRenderer:draw(px, py, camX, camY, facing, walkPhase, stepFlip,
   local redraw = false
   -- True-color sheets bypass every palette bake; the screen-space exemption
   -- is recorded below once the final frame/height is known.
-  if self.def.trueColor then
+  if liveTrueColor(self.def) then
     image = self.image
   elseif self.objColors then
     -- Gen 2: the palette came from the caller (setObjPalette).  Like RED++
@@ -349,7 +353,7 @@ function SpriteRenderer:draw(px, py, camX, camY, facing, walkPhase, stepFlip,
     drawHeight = math.max(1, self.frameHeight - math.min(8, self.frameHeight))
   end
   -- Full-color art claims exactly the portion of the frame that was drawn.
-  if self.def.trueColor then
+  if liveTrueColor(self.def) then
     PaletteFX.markTrueColor(x, y, self.frameWidth, drawHeight)
   end
   blitFrame(image, quad, x, y, flip, redraw, self.frameWidth)
@@ -362,7 +366,7 @@ end
 -- raw DMG shades (#384).
 function SpriteRenderer:drawTile(path, x, y, flip)
   local image, redraw = getImage(path), false
-  if self.def.trueColor then
+  if liveTrueColor(self.def) then
     PaletteFX.markTrueColor(x, y, 16, 8)
   elseif PaletteFX.usesGbcPack() then
     local colors, group = PaletteFX.spriteObp(self.def, self.seed)

src/ui/gen2/BattleState.lua

@@ -740,7 +740,8 @@ function BattleState:drawPic(mon, back)
   -- pokemon.sprite's ctx.trueColor, the same flag Gen 1's Sprites.path hands
   -- back to its own draw site.
   local function paint()
-    if colors and not trueColor and GbcPalette.available() then
+    if colors and not (trueColor and GbcPalette.mode == "gbc")
+       and GbcPalette.available() then
       GbcPalette.with(colors, body)
     else
       body()