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>it only supports 16 colors
This is a weird "fact" that keeps coming up. Hi-res mode has access to the same palette registers as normal mode and it uses the same double wide character format for palettes. IIRC the only minor issue is in the double wide format you have half the resolution on which palette goes with which tile so instead of a palette per 8x8 it's a palette per 16x8 or something like that. But there's no restriction on number of colors. In fact there's very little reason to restrict yourself, you don't get a choice in the matter, it's not like you can save VRAM by refusing to use more than 1 palette, the SNES always uses 2-byte tilemap addressing.
That racing game I've forgotten the name of just got lazy and other games it's mostly to do with being a menu, you don't really need more than 16 colors to display some text on a background. Someone posted a ROM (with source) a while back that demonstrates multiple 16-color palettes with no trickery.

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