1. Should the tilemap and metasprites of the submitted NEXXT session be considered when voting, or only the nametable/final image?

2. Is making a NEXXT entry outside of the program allowed? It is possible to import an image as a nametable, although it often gets mangled in order to fit in. The program generates a proper tilemap too.

Currently the render just shows the resulting image. If the tilemap/metasprites/etc is supposed to be judged, this should probably change.

I assume that importing would be allowed, as it is for most other formats.

These are great questions and I don't have any answers. Another thing you can do with NEXXT is mockup whole level designs using multiple screens worth of space expanding in either direction. Honestly, seems not great to me to limit people to what's easily represented in a render. But I'm also not sure how to represent more of the features of nexxt. Afaik it doesn't really have a way to compose both the sprite and bg layers into a preview or image either.

about item 2 i actually interoperated it with yychr and some scripts from me (as i usually try to interoperate on everywhere else as well, as no tools are enough for our needs), so i guess that as long nexxt can open/import such files, there might be no problem at all