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Imagine making a Game Boy original game Not a Game Boy Color game (including the black cartridges) but making it in such a way that it's designed to be played on a Game Boy Color using one of the palettes. That would be an interesting and dumb challenge to do.

Most confusing thumbnail I've seen. Good video though

I haven't read any comments or watched the vid but im guessing cause the game boy had color coded the different shades so when it was on the color it would access those colors when a new game was put in

I had a sega 32x and a Sega CD

Really great video, love how researched it is. Well done 👏

So unlike other consoles including the Game Boy the graphics were not line scan based.

Hey I recognize the name WhitePointer from GameFAQs Top 10s! A great writer, and so unsurprisingly a great video maker!

11:55 those are one and the same

It seems like they were able to enhance audio through the main console in some way. Couldn't they have also done that through video? Like adding in some externally enhanced VPD + more VRAM?

11:43 that's my gbc! i would put it back in the bag and the box whenever i wasn't playing it. still looks new. i enjoyed the video a lot and would love if you dove into the DX/enhanced cartridges and how that functioned between GB&GBC!

For the Pokémon Yellow Question. Nintendo doesn't differentiate between game boy and game boy color systems. They are all part of the "gameboy" The Gameboy advance was considered it's own system

Oops I just commented about the "Picross" pronunciation in the other video lol

Doesn't the name of Picross come from "picture" and not from "pie"? Man I hate English and its lack of rules for pronunciation

Thank you for making this! It was really interesting

Funny how the GameBoy Color could do this but they couldn't implement this in any way for VC games on 3DS 🙃

Well it is actually INTERESTING to know that the supergameboy uses 3 background layers to display everything. But i was thinking, could they have not decided to allow you to colorize the background and sprites saperately from each other and then mix that final output together as 1 single background later??? Because that would be really cool. Sure the supergameboy could run in obj mode to allow sprites from the snes to be put on top of the background to replace sprites from the gameboy game wit it, but that will require gameboy games to support such feature. But it would be much much greater to see a homebrewer making a replacement rom bios for the supergameboy to allow you to colorize sprites seperately from the background just to allow more colors on screen. Unless it is impossible for the snes to stream 10 color images at 60fps at 160x140 pixels to the tv screen. Somebody being more technical could explain that to me, right?

Gameboy - £69.99, Lynx - £84.99 Game Gear - £99.99. Hard decisions to be made back in the day!

Pokémon Yellow was officially sold as a GameBoy game. However, if you rip the rom it has a GBC file, so it is technically a GBC game. The only difference I notice in Yellow-- when comparing SGB vs GBC-- is the opening video. On a GBC, Pikachu has red circle on its face like it's supposed to; on a SGB, it has blue circles when surfing and flying.

This is a topic I was always curious about, but kept forgetting to research it.

Could you show the cases? I have two pokemon platinum games I bought probably 13 years ago, but the glitter is different, its a different shade, like the nintendo seal is a different shade on each, and one says not for resale. They don't look fake at all though and the one that looks weird to me comes with papers

I wonder how the space invaders game worked. Did the Super Gameboy have an instruction or register to jump execution on the Super Nintendo CPU? I'm kinda curious now.

I loved my Super GameBoy. I remember reading that one of the Bomberman games supported 4-player multi-tap, I think?

i used covering the screen (drawing) as a custom pause screen. pause game, enable full screen drawing.

Is Pokémon Yellow the only game that is both Super GameBoy and GameBoy Color?

Wow thanks "I didn't know!"

The Street Fighter characters being part of the background is wild to me. I love learning about devs using work arounds for technology limitations.

It's a crying shame the Lynx didn't catch on. Battery life was certainly an issue. But that hardware was truly impressive for 1989 especially.

Probably mentioned already, but Donkey Kong Land 3 was originally a Game Boy game and then later changed to a Game Boy Color game for the Japanese version release, which came a little later for some reason

i'd argue that pokemon yellow is a mislabled black cartridge as on the 3ds virtual console it's a game boy colour game

Tetris DX was by far my favorite game to play on the super gameboy. It's got notably more forgiving mechanics, so it doesn't get a lot of love from purists, but I really enjoyed it, and the soundtrack somehow never got stale for me. I was glad to hear you close out the video with it!

Something that didn't help the success of the Lynx is that the TurboExpress/PC Engine GT arrived a year later and wasn't that much more expensive than the Lynx launched at. The TE/GT having a seemingly perfect high color screen, playing actual console games, a larger library of more popular games and having massive retail distribution pretty much killed any chance the Lynx had to pick up scraps after the Game Gear.

if you brighten the colors of pokemon yellow on gameboy color, you'll end up with a much closer match to super gameboy. they must have intentionally chosen darker colors for gameboy color because the screen is super washed out, making everything appear brighter.

What's the song that plays in the outro? It sounds familiar, but I can't quite put my finger on it...

Honestly, I would not be surprised if Pokémon Yellow was a test game of sorts in this regard -- something to test the backwards compatible functions that Gold and Silver used (but not Crystal) as well as SGB compatibility, for "black cart" (GBC-enhanced GB) games.

So, the GBC has a list of games hardcoded somewhere? It just checks if the game is part of the list to decide on the color palette? That's a funny solution when you think about it. Would it not make more sense the other way around? On boot, the game tells the console which palette to use? 🤔

Game Boy Colour

Ah, so it really does have 'knowledge' of many old GB games built-in to it. I always figured that was the answer, but it's good to have it explained in detail. Cool stuff.

My first portable console was the Pikachu edition GBC bundled with yellow, so I always assumed (international) Yellow just WAS a GBC “black cartridge” game in yellow plastic. The labelling is definitely unusual and palette swapping the existing DMG sprite and background layers on the fly was the *only* GBC feature it made use of, so I could see it being a weird transitional enhancement to a “grey cartridge” game too. Or maybe it was just mislabeled and my original assumption was correct. IDK.

Why couldn't the GBC use the color data from SGB games? It was lame playing donkey Kong in b&w knowing that the cartridge has full color data on it.

I actually didn’t know that the gameboy uses 2 saperate sprite sets, so it is no wonder that the gameboycolor could display those old gameboy games with 10 colors. But at the other hand, since the gameboy also has an optional window layer, nintendo might could,ve addaed the ability to colorize that window layer as well to allow 14 colors on screen. Also nintendo could,ve added some extra colorpallets for those old games by using more button combinations such as select and D-pad ect… Now if it is true that the supergameboy uses let’s assume 3 background layers and if the snes cannot stream 10 color images at 160x140 pixels at 60fps to the screen, then it is no wonder that gameplay sections of those gameboy games can never have more then 4 colors on screen. But am not sure about that. Maybe the snes does have enough bandwide to stream more colorful images to the screen straight from the cartride, maybe not. Either way i found it indeed cool how nintendo did turned many of their games into color on both devices and how they went all out to be that creative😁

You sounded very professional and clear. Great mic upgrade

It always depresses me that like absolutely no one has done a homebrew project of any kind for the Super Gameboy. Even just something minor, like adding a game-specific border to a game that didn’t get one, or something. We get way more full-color DX ports of various GB games per year than anything that actually uses the SGB. Like, those are probably more desired in general, but I'd imagine a hard-coded GB -> GBC conversion is way harder to do than to like...give a game a SGB border, right? It's shocking that the only game I can think of that does anything close to that is Pokémon Crystal Clear, and even then, it only works on one specific emulator, isn't actually related to the SGB at all on a technical level, and has some concessions involved with even making THAT work. Forget the Virtual Boy, the Super Game Boy is TRULY Nintendo's most forgotten console.

Mic quality is great.

my guess for the Pokémon yellow thing is that it might have been upgraded to GBC really late in development and they didn't want to redo the box art.

15:05 Huh, who knew Mario was heterochromic

Playing Pokemon Yellow on the Analogue Pocket with the 8:7 aspect ratio, the Super Game Boy 2 BIOS, and the Trinitron TV filter is THE definitive way to play the game for me.

Interesting video. A related question: I always thought that clear cartridge GBC games had a larger color palette than black cartridge games. Is this actually true? Or was I just imagining things? Everyone is only mentioning access to a higher clock speed and larger RAM as the difference.

How is Zeliard not on this list above the apogee shovelware?

The reason why Mystic Quest and Mega Man 1 - 3 has an unique color palatte is because these games where released by Nintendo in Europe instead of Square and Capcom, which where the publishers for America. That could be the only reason I know of. Maybe Nintendo implemented a code for these games to access this palettes. Which is kinda cool. ^.^

And the GBA just reuse the GBC subsystem to colorize GB games, right?