1324: Double Dragon II GB \\ Playthrough, part 2/2: Boss rush! + Mesen, GBC, & Super Game Boy colors
0Taking up from where I left off last time playing through Double Dragon II for Game Boy w/ ROM dumped by Sanni Cart Reader V5 & running in Mesen. Normal difficulty.
Then I mess around with coloring the game in various ways, including with another cart I dumped, a Super Game Boy; and I go through the SGB's various features.
Part 1: https://youtu.be/Js9AjUHy5lI
My other Double Dragon games playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZO3OPzPjIzPs9RcBn8R9wpFJTPMU1j0m
0:00 - lobby
26:53 - better run
31:48 - boss rush hallway
35:38 - the penthouse
43:20 - Mesen color presets
45:00 - Mesen sprite coloring
50:03 - GBC colors
54:53 - Super Game Boy
55:54 - button setting
57:00 - borders
58:02 - drawing
1:00:33 - palettes
1:02:38 - Mesen borderless
1:04:18 - palette editor
1:16:31 - wrap!
Turns out I was right at the last stage, which becomes a boss rush! Had some trouble with that, but fortunately the final boss isn't actually all that hard. ^ _^
This is one DD that doesn't have those horrible insta-death platforming bits. : D
I forgot about GBC palette selection: on a GBC, when powering up the system, you can hold (or not) a button, plus a direction on the d-pad, to pick an alternate color palette, including one that's grayscale (left+B). However, that doesn't seem to be working in the Mesen emulator when I tried it after recording (also tried it unsuccessfully in the VisualGameBoyAdvance-M emulator).
Wikipedia notes about a dozen GB games that have a special palette when put in a GBC, including Tetris--which gets a high-contrast red/orange/black palette that I think is pretty close to one of the Super Game Boy palettes; doesn't seem to have separate sprite vs background colors. GBC ran at effectively double GB's speed (just over 2 MHz vs just over 1 MHz).
Looked through Wikipedia's list of GBC games twice and didn't manage to spot anything I have to have, but that's mostly just going on names and then checking a few of those in YouTube. I'll probably find something eventually. Mario Golf is good but I played through that back in the day and don't feel a need to revisit it.
3/1/23
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