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What are your favorite color hacks? Just found Super Mario 2 DX and I'm wondering if there are any other good ones I'm missing

>> No.8433425

>>8433403
Not many of these, and they usually look bad. But this looks great.

>> No.8433426

Imo nothing compares to changing to custom SGB pallets for each world.

>> No.8433427

>>8433425
Since posting this thread, I checked out both "Super Mario Land DX" and "Super Mario Land Colour" and they both sucked, so I am inclined to believe you. I will at least post the link for this good one because it deserves it. https://cdromance.com/gameboy-roms/super-mario-land-2-dx-hack/

>> No.8433443

Any Genesis one looks good because devs always chose the most disgusting colors possible so there's nowhere to go but up

>> No.8433458

>>8433403
Dr. Mario (Dr. Mario DX Hack)
Kirby's Dream Land (Kirby's Dream Land DX Revised Hack)
Metroid II - Return of Samus (Metroid II DX Hack)

>> No.8433471

Would really like a colored Wario Land 4 but it plays great in b&w too.

Magic Coins it's alright but that great colored.

>> No.8433497
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8433497

Pics is unfortunately a mock-up which afaik was never made into a full hack

>>8433458
Awesome, thanks a lot.

>> No.8433512

The FFL trilogy would look pretty cool with colors but I also like using the SGB for that

>> No.8433560

>>8433471
Wario land 4 is in color you silly goose

>> No.8433569

>>8433560
It's monotoned in a red tint.

>> No.8433585

>>8433497
There are color hacks for gen 1, they don't look this good though. I'd bet that making those big trees more than 1 different color is more complicated than it seems too.

Maybe it's a meme, but the way every town has a different color palette in the original is very charming, would be neat if that was kept intact in a hack like this

>> No.8433590

Still waiting for the Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru one.

>> No.8433591
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8433591

There are tons of them for gba although they're usually for snes ports, which generally aren't best on gba anyway.

>> No.8433594

>>8433403
There is a decent and recent Metroid 2 color hack.
But honestly the original gb screen is much better for the game atmosphere.

>> No.8433646

>>8433591
this only matters if you are playing a game you have stolen

>> No.8433679

>>8433646
too confusing to be good bait, sorry

>> No.8433876

>>8433497
>>8433585
I'm only familiar with the gen 2 conversion of gen 1 graphics. Looks good, but it crashed when exiting the victory road when I tested it years ago.
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1385/

>> No.8433895

>>8433591
Is there any reason why these ports have such hideous washed out colors?

>> No.8433910

>>8433895
I would guess they increased the contrast to make things visible on the original GBA's non back-lit screen.

>> No.8433913

>>8433895
yes, a GBA has no light on it, it is a purely reflective display originally so they made these with that in mind

>> No.8434472

>>8433497
I would actually like to play a Pokemon game with muted, realistic colors.
Is there a color mod that does this with the GBA games?

>> No.8434483
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8434483

For some reason I like when a 8bit port gets a hack to look cooler. e.g. Gradius II Famicom hacked to look more like the arcade version.

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8434490

>>8434483
FC

>> No.8434882

>>8433646
I love stealing games. There's something about not letting developers have a proper meal that really gets me going. Really gets me in the mood for torrenting

>> No.8434891

>>8433497
>Viridian Forest
>Everything looks brown

>> No.8434896

>>8434891
>>8433497
Yeah this looks like it's in autumn. Not how most people would have imagined Viridian Forest at all I bet.

>> No.8434919

>>8433403
I'm just gonna say it. SML2 sucks balls. The framerate is awful. The control is bad and feels like Chinese Mario bootleg. Graphics are great but only in still shots.

>> No.8434942

>>8434919
It's really slow and floaty and incredibly easy but this combined with the music and visuals make it one of the absolute comfiest games of all time

>> No.8435479

>>8433471
>>8433560
>>8433569
Wait did they mean Wario Land VB? 4 is a GBA game.

>> No.8435483

>>8433895
>>8433910
>>8433913
Yeah, basically they used those weird, garish palettes to make it easier to see the game. Not a terrible idea at the time of the original GBA's release, but then the GBA SP model added a proper light, so people started to notice how fucked up the colors were.

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8435491

>>8434483
There's at least one Zelda 1 patch that lets you play with the Link's Awakening and Oracle sprites.

>> No.8435540

kirby dreamland and that's it.
metroid ii would be great but they still don't fix samus visor and for whatever reason the author decided to not fix the palette of the ending picture even though someone shared his fix (and later published it ad an addendum).

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8435568

>>8435483
>be Nintendo
>don’t include a second pair of face buttons
>don’t include a dedicated digital audio processor
>don’t include a backlight
tfw

>> No.8435905

>>8435491
That looks horrible.

>> No.8436074

>>8433403
Metroid 2 has a good one.

>> No.8436080

>>8434472
I think you could accomplish this with a shader more likely.

>> No.8436095

>>8433895
zoom zoom

>> No.8436196

>>8435905
can't look worse than the original Zelda 1 sprites