Why does my crochet "Pixel Art" pattern feel like the original Game Boy Color sprite limit?

I’ve been trying to stitch a full‑frame Game Boy Color splash screen using DK yarn and a 3.5 mm hook. The idea was to hit the exact 160×144 pixel grid – each single crochet = one pixel, each color = one of the original 8‑bit palette.\n\nThe thing is, after a few rows I started getting that familiar “banding” you see when the GB’s 2 bpp hardware runs out of RAM and the sprites start to flicker. It’s like the texture warping on early PS1 titles – you know the one where the sky looks like a stretched JPEG? I swear the yarn is doing the same thing, just in 3‑D.\n\nI’ve tried a few workarounds:\n- Switching to a tighter gauge (US G/6) to cram more stitches per inch, hoping to mimic the 8‑bit resolution better.\n- Using a limited palette of 4 yarn colors instead of the full 56, to force the “pixel art” vibe.\n- Pre‑dithering the reference image in GIMP with the “Floyd‑Steinberg” algorithm before converting to a chart.\n\nNone of these fully capture that nostalgic “glitch‑y” feel. Maybe I’m missing something obvious, like the way Nintendo’s hardware used a 2‑bit per pixel tile system with a shared palette across the whole screen. Should I be using a different stitch – maybe a half‑double crochet for the darker shades to simulate the lower bit‑depth? Or is the whole concept flawed because yarn can’t truly emulate the hardware’s limited VRAM?\n\nI’m curious if anyone else has tackled this exact crossover. Did you ever make a crochet piece that actually feels like a GB sprite, complete with the subtle color‑banding and the occasional “texture pop‑in” that made those early handheld games so endearing? Any tips, pattern tweaks, or just a sympathetic nod would be amazing. 😊