The Size of a Sprite
As suggested on ryiron post, each sprite forming the world of Blackthorne was made using 8x8 pixels. Each sprite can be vertically/horizontally flipped or rotated allowing it to be reused in many ways. In fact, this is also the same case for almost every SNES game developed back in the days.
The above image was taken from the original game emulated on EmuHawk. The resolution is the same from the SNES (256×224 pixels). To make things clear, a grid of 8x8 pixels was added after. That way we can see how tiles are re-arranged to make some variety.
Note that all sprites (or tiles) from the level can be joined together forming interesting structures. The red squares just show that.
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