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I'm kinda confused about GB palletes, since I never owned the thing. The "real" colors look pretty crappy for most games, so I want some variety in there.
I know that GBC offered several color setups that you could switch between. However, I don't know where the game-specific palletes that you can choose in Gambatte come from. Are these "official" from somewhere, or made by the community?

>> No.3976072
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>>3976061
>However, I don't know where the game-specific palletes that you can choose in Gambatte come from.
I'm not familiar with that emulator. Does it choose a palette from one of 12? Or does it choose some other palette?

If it is the former, that is standard GBC behavior. The GBC has some sort of small ROM that contained information on the library of published GB games and appropriate palettes to choose for each.

If it is the latter, it the colors must have been chosen by the author of the emulator or the community.

>> No.3976115
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>>3976072
It uses a different one for each game (pic related). Most of them look nice, but I'm curious where they come from
I first thought it might be the Super Game Boy enhancements, but after googling it those seem like different colors. Someone put effort into this stuff.

>> No.3977082

>>3976115
OK, I see what you're talking about. Check out this article on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Color#Color_palettes_used_for_original_Game_Boy_games

Basically, in addition to the palettes in >>3976072, the GBC/GBA has some built-in palettes for certain games. If you insert Super Mario Land and don't press anything while the game is booting up, you get that special palette which makes the sprites red and the background blue. This is also why Pokemon Red's graphics look mostly red on a GBC, while Pokemon Blue looks mostly blue, despite them technically being monochrome GB games.

Gambatte uses those same built-in palettes. So yes, they're official.

>> No.3978738

>>3977082
That's interesting.

>> No.3978896

>>3977082
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Color#Color_palettes_used_for_original_Game_Boy_games

To tell you the truth, anon, saying it was a built in ROM was just a deduction. It's nice to see verification. It's the only way I could think they could have implemented the behavior, seeing as original GB games were made before the GBC was designed. I too wondered about it when I first had a GBC, however many years ago it was.

>> No.3980580

I always loved picking different colors until I found one that fit. It was usually the standard, but sometimes the negative color looked good, or another color just looked crisper and stood out more. This is the best thread on all of 4chan right now.

>> No.3980667

>>3980580
Dark Brown masterrace