Playing Game Boy games in black and white on GBA SP?

[slowslow325]

Woohoo it worked, left + b for grayscale. Thanks all

And by "Thanks all" I know you mean "I thank you with all my heart, slowslow"

BTW, there's also games for original Gameboy that had Super Gameboy support that would have a preset color palette. Wouldn't it just be easier to make the system black and white?!

The games you are talking about are the black carts which had GBC and GB support, while you can play these carts in the Super Gameboy, in colour, Super Gameboy carts are different, they had differant features that only work in the Super Gameboy, and not in GBC/GBA/Gameboy Player, such as Borders, extra sound effects, 16bit versions of games (Space Invaders), etc.

I know. What I'm saying is that there are black cartridges with color palettes, Super Gameboy compatible cartridges with color palettes (like Donkey Kong), and regular cartridges with color palettes when put in the SP.

[noiseredux]

Where's noiseredux!

surprisingly I never memorized the codes. I'm actually far too lazy, and generally just leave games on whatever the default pallet is.

[noiseredux]

and regular cartridges with color palettes when put in the SP.

I know what you're talking about... Metroid II, Super Mario Land, etc all had "hidden" color pallets. Meaning, Metroid II was made far before GB games were in color. BUT if you put it in the GBA or GBC -- LOOK! Seamus is yellow and red!

[slowslow325]

and regular cartridges with color palettes when put in the SP.

I know what you're talking about... Metroid II, Super Mario Land, etc all had "hidden" color pallets. Meaning, Metroid II was made far before GB games were in color. BUT if you put it in the GBA or GBC -- LOOK! Seamus is yellow and red!

MAGIC!

[noiseredux]

and regular cartridges with color palettes when put in the SP.

I know what you're talking about... Metroid II, Super Mario Land, etc all had "hidden" color pallets. Meaning, Metroid II was made far before GB games were in color. BUT if you put it in the GBA or GBC -- LOOK! Seamus is yellow and red!

MAGIC!

you said it.

[CRTGAMER]

and regular cartridges with color palettes when put in the SP.

I know what you're talking about... Metroid II, Super Mario Land, etc all had "hidden" color pallets. Meaning, Metroid II was made far before GB games were in color. BUT if you put it in the GBA or GBC -- LOOK! Seamus is yellow and red!

Have to remember that Left B for the grey scale.
Even my ancient recent acquired Stop That Roach grey cart has a 4 color palate.

[slowslow325]

and regular cartridges with color palettes when put in the SP.

I know what you're talking about... Metroid II, Super Mario Land, etc all had "hidden" color pallets. Meaning, Metroid II was made far before GB games were in color. BUT if you put it in the GBA or GBC -- LOOK! Seamus is yellow and red!

Have to remember that Left B for the grey scale.
Even my ancient recent acquired Stop That Roach grey cart has a 4 color palate.

That game is super Gameboy compatible, which explains it. The real magic lies when you put in just run of the mill Gameboy cartridges into the SP and it has a color palette that's mostly correct.

On the GBC you could have basic color palettes, but the SP gives it a color palette that looks correct. I remember playing Super Mario Land on my GBC using the Gold and Black color palette.

[Hobie-wan]

MAGIC!

you said it.

I'm sure they put in some code for top tier games that check the rom header and assign an appropriate palette to a few older ones.

[slowslow325]

MAGIC!

you said it.

I'm sure they put in some code for top tier games that check the rom header and assign an appropriate palette to a few older ones.

But it's weird because EVERY game that I've tried has had a color palette that looks decent. Maybe it's just me...

[fastbilly1]

This just gives me an excuse to post my favorite GBA SP mod:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/21/orig ... f-retro-l/

Thats rights boys and girls, a GBA SP in an original Gameboy shell. I thought about doing it until I realized that I would never play it thanks to the Gameboy player...