Turns character icon palettes not correctly shifting when same pal is selected

[yamorix]

Describe the bug

When an mirrored team of all 3 different characters is created, their palettes will not be shifted correctly on the lifebars but will be once they are actually in the fight. This, however, only happens under very specific conditions that will be listed in the Reproduction section below. To explain what I mean by the palette 'shifting', this is referring to how, when 2 or more of the same character are in a fight, each instance of that character will have their palette be shifted to the next available palette.

My modified system.def will be attached for further inspection if necessary.

NOTE: In the screenshots below is one with some added characters, and the other with only Kung Fu Man. The former was added since its really hard to tell that Kung Fu Man is using the same palette throughout on the lifebars alone.

system.zip

To Reproduce

1. Set paletteselect to 0 in the system.def
2. Disable any character animations from being used in the screenpack
3. Create p1s team with all different characters by selecting only with the X button
4. Create the same team for p2, also only selecting with the X button
5. Start the match

Expected behavior

No response

Screenshots / Video

Engine Version (or source code date)

nightly 2026.05.04

Operating system

Windows

Extra context or search terms

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[potsmugen]

Could be that with palette selection off the conflicts are only resolved when the character jumps in. I remember needing another exception in the code when paletteselect was 0.

[potsmugen]

I think we might be able to fix this and future issues by moving the Lua palette select conflict resolution to Go, in a way that it always runs. Doing some tests.

Edit: Actually, I'm not able to reproduce this issue at all. Even on a build from the date of the issue. Any more reproduction steps? It's Turns mode, right?

[yamorix]

Something kinda annoying about this bug is that it doesn't always happen, so I'm not entirely sure where the issue begins. Pretty much everything I did was listed however, I'm just not sure if you have to do it in an even more specific way. Here's a video just in case, using the system.def I sent in the OP, done on the most recent nightly. Every character was selected with the X button.

2026-06-13.13-19-29.mp4