

If you don't have cartridges, the latest versions of the bsness emulator has proper and full support for the Super Gameboy, which will let you see the correct colors for the Gameboy games.ĭonkey Kong Land 2: Diddy's Kong Quest Yesįor the Frog the Bell Tolls (Kaeruno Tameni) / Galaxian Yes Only 4 colors are supported for a non-Super Gameboy title, and this includes black Gameboy Color cartridges without Super Gameboy support.

In the second column, a "Yes" stands for full Super Gameboy support and a number/letter identifies the palette the Super Gameboy selects for the game at startup. However, Nintendo put code into the Super Gameboy that can set a palette other than the default palette for certain games, typically theirs (1st Party or 2nd Party) or distributed by them. The Super Gameboy has 64 pre-programmed palettes (1A-4G) and generally sets the default palette (1A) if a Gameboy game without any Super Gameboy support is played. If you don't have cartridges, the latest betas of the MESS emulator support the Gameboy Color ROM, which will let you see the correct colors for these games.Ģ. Gameboy games with Super Gameboy support are typically more colorful because they can change palettes and such. They may use another of the 12 -built in palettes or use custom colors. However, for Nintendo's games (1st Party or 2nd Party) and many of those Nintendo distributed, the Gameboy Color will detect them and set custom colors, up to 10 (4 for the background and 3 for sprites from one of two palettes) The first column lists all those Gameboy games that do not use the default palette in the Gameboy Color.

The Gameboy Color ordinarily a light red/light green/blue/black palette for Gameboy games, even if that game had Super Gameboy features.
