Make a Sprite flash white/color

You know how those retro games like Megaman, make the enemies flash white or red when they get shot for a brief period of time or like once?

Has anyone done this, or have any tricks on doing this?

Or is it not possible yet.

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Use WebGL or Force Texture to create your own flash, you believe it's from NES effect because it's using own graphic library.

I did this with my game using tint effect, not sure if it will affect performance though, so far there's no performance loss on my end

Ah, I wish Scirra would build this into the Flash behavior.