How the Game Boy Color gave original Game Boy games colour | White_Pointer Gaming

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Published on January 17, 2025 1:00:30 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWvGjD7GpKs

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Pokémon Yellow (1998)

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The Game Boy Color was fully backwards compatible with original Game Boy games, and like the Super Game Boy, it was able to enhance them with colour. However the way this worked was different between the two devices, so let's do a deep dive to find out exactly how it worked its magic!

0:00 Intro
0:39 Hardware overview
2:52 Giving Game Boy games colour
8:40 Oddities and special cases
10:36 The mystery of Pokemon Yellow
12:18 Default palettes, limited customisation, more weirdness
15:10 Conclusion

Game Boy Color architecture: https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/game-boy/
MVG's Game Boy Color video:    • How Graphics worked on the Nintendo G...  
Game Boy Color palettes: https://tcrf.net/Notes:Game_Boy_Color_Bootstrap_ROM

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