Thanks for the Lakitu info. I see all the CI data, but haven't been able to track down the palettes. Usually the palettes are just before the group of textures that use them, but there are just MIO0 blocks immediately before and after the these. Still though, I was able to pin down the different Lakitu blocks and sizes. I'll keep looking at this.
6A0AC0-6C02BF: CI8 56x72 holding lights (32)
6C02C0-70EEBF: CI8 72x56 waving flag/lap sign (80)
70EEC0-712DBF: CI8 56x72 fishing (4)
Good find on those numbers. 15 is such an odd width! There are some other characters that follow them
7F8734-7F99F3: I8 15x32 numbers (10)
7F99F4-7F9CF3: I8 8x16 cc " ! . 0 ~ (6)
7F9CF4-7F9DC3: I8 not sure (almost looks like 13x16?)
7F9DC4-7F9EC3: I8 8x16 . + (2)
7F9EC4-7F9FC3: I8 8x16 all FF white (2)
7F9FC4-7FA0C3: I8 8x16 ' ? (2)
I've also tracked down a lot of the remaining CI8 encoded HUD textures from MIO0 block 0x132B50
Places: 1P/2P/3P/4P 64x32 CI8
1P 17458 Pal:17258
2P 17C58 17258
3P 18458 17258
4P 18C58 17258
HUD faces 32x32 CI8. Also includes the
bomb warning icon that was unused in production.
Idx Face Offset Palette
0 Mario 1B6D8 1A4D8
1 Luigi 1BAD8 1A6D8
2 Peach 1BED8 1A8D8
3 Toad 1C2D8 1AAD8
4 Yoshi 1C6D8 1ACD8
5 D.K. 1CAD8 1AED8
6 Wario 1CED8 1B0D8
7 Bowser 1D2D8 1B2D8
8 Bomb 1D6D8 1B4D8
9 [?] 1DAD8 1B4D8 - same palette
white/black striped signal lights 24x48 CI8
I don't recall seeing these in the game at all as Lakitu has his own lights.
0 260D8 Pal:25ED8
1 26558
2 269D8
3 26E58
4 272D8
5 27758
6 27BD8
7 28058
8 284D8
9 28958
HUD Items 40x32 CI8
Idx Item Offset Palette
0 Empty 1FED8 1DED8
1 Banana 203D8 1E0D8
2 Banana Bunch 208D8 1E2D8
3 Mushroom 20DD8 1E4D8
4 Two Mushroom 212D8 1E6D8
5 Triple Mushroom 217D8 1E8D8
6 Super Mushroom 21CD8 1EAD8
7 Spiny Shell 221D8 1ECD8
8 Boo 226D8 1EED8
9 Green Shell 22BD8 1F0D8
A Triple Green 230D8 1F2D8
B Red Shell 235D8 1F4D8
C Triple Red 23AD8 1F6D8
D Super Star 23FD8 1F8D8
E Thunderbolt 244D8 1FAD8
F Fake Item Box 249D8 1FCD8
bomb textures CI8 32x32
Idx Color Offset Palette
0 black 29858 2A858
1 dark yellow 29C58
2 yellow 2A058
3 bright yellow 2A458
2CC58-end: RGBA16 8x8 little cars