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the only instance where video dimensions actually increased was the inclusion of the new full-screen fly-bys for each Age. The videos have been re-compressed in many cases, but not really "improved" beyond that. I should note, too, that the MME box did in fact state that the game was using the original 24-bit images, as did the official website, back in the day (unfortunately, the official website now redirects to Myst Worlds, and the Wayback Machine doesn't like saving images, which is pretty much what the entire site was made up of, and I don't happen to own a non-bundled copy of the game, or I'd have a box to scan).
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and if you give me 2 weeks, I can get you a photo of the box back from Cyan's collection. I can upload a comparison shot if you really want one. I compared a couple of them to the shots RAWA has posted on a few pages on the Cho server, and also converted one of them to a 256-color GIF image, and the difference in quality is quite noticeable (had it already been a 256-color image, there shouldn't have been a drop in quality). That said, I've extracted the actual image files from MME using a program called Riveal, written by another community member, and the images in MME are most definitely the 24-bit originals.
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The dithering on the images in Myst was pretty well-done, so even though the images in the original release of the game from 1993 were 8-bit images, they looked pretty close to their 24-bit originals.