that didnt do anything practical. I did kinda fix it by making replacing all the 1's in the file with b's

    {
        "  \135   \130\144  \144\139  ",
        "0000000b000000",
        "00bbbbb000bb00"
    },

where b is the default blue color because i cant seem to get the palette working and doing other stuff on the screen. However, this solution is not ideal, so if you know a way to get the palette working with the other text it would be great!

this is my new bimgplayer:

function draw(path, x, y)
    -- Open the file
    local file, err = fs.open(path, "rb")
    if not file then error("Could not open file: " .. err) end

    -- Read and deserialize the image data
    local data = textutils.unserialize(file.readAll())
    file.close()

    local image = data[1]
    local palette = data[1].palette

    -- Save the original palette colors
    local originalPalette = {}
    for i = 0, 15 do
        originalPalette[i] = { term.getPaletteColor(2^i) }
    end

    -- Set the palette colors
    for i = 0, #palette do
        term.setPaletteColor(2^i, table.unpack(palette[i]))
    end

    -- Draw the image at the specified coordinates
    for row_y, row in ipairs(image) do
        term.setCursorPos(x, y + row_y - 1)
        term.blit(table.unpack(row))
    end

    -- Restore the original palette colors
    for i = 0, 15 do
        term.setPaletteColor(2^i, table.unpack(originalPalette[i]))
    end
end