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GameBoy is a system I know very little about, but still found quite interesting to discover the differences here. Nice 👍

One thing worth noting about the konami GB collections is that castlevania adventure moves a long at a much better pace over the sluggish original you can even see it here during the side by side

Great episode. I've always thought about this topic at the back of my mind, which is why I like playing some Game Boy games on the original or the pocket, and some games on the Color and/or Advance. When it came to the graphics, some games just looked better without color and vice versa.

I don’t understand the nostalgia for the crappy green filter. I played the original Game Boy back in the day and had no interest in getting one until the Pocket came out because the screen was so awful.

I just wanted to mention that rondo of blood suffers from massive audio issues on almost every version that has been re-released. The mixing is incorrect between the CDDA audio and the PCM audio, not to mention the native audio handled entirely by the PC engine side. There are various workarounds for this.

The few seconds on Quest 64 coming deblurred out of probably a N64Digital really got to me and I had to plug my N64 in and try out more raw-pixel deblurred games on the thing all day.

Nice video, guy!

What a fantastic in depth video!

8:05 Casually saying "We don't have the means to compare these" while showing a nearly $2,000 price tag...yup, that makes sense! lol

Star Ocean Blue Sphere has a weird feature, in which there's a treasure locked behind a single door that is inaccessible on Gameboy Color but *can* be accessed on the DMG.

Ever thought about having like a one-off MLiG Europe stream with a start time more suitable for European viewers? I would love to be able to catch your stream live some time

I never heard about this bionic commando, it looks awesome. Glad I saw this and I really love the original so I'm looking forward to playing this one now

"The Enemy of Art Is the Absence of Limitations" - Orson Welles

This is incredible!

awesome vid. was thinking about this very topic just recently with Wario Land 2 and coming to the same conclusion.

What game is at 7:35?

I think you did a great job on this comparison. My problem is the games are kid games. In fact that is one of the reasons I never liked most Nintendo games. I did but a GBA and the GBA SP. it seemed more of the games on it had better music not as much as the dinky music on the older game boys. I think the Atari lynx was much better than many of the Game Boys. Of course the Atari Lynx was a 16 bit system. Still you did a great job and I appreciate your work.

Always been a fan of the Super Game Boy, and I often play these games on SGB instead of GBC. Though I do really like how Dragon Warrior 1&2 looks on GBC compared to the drab SGB palette. It's a shame there aren't any emulators that can simultaneously use the GBC colors with the SGB borders. And yes, it is frustrating that Nintendo has never re-implemented Super Game Boy features on any hardware after the Super Game Boy 2. Games like Pokemon Red & Blue and Donkey Kong '94 look so much better on it. I can only assume there's a licensing issue preventing Nintendo from emulating SGB support; the Super Game Boy/2 were co-developed by Hori. Though funnily enough, Square-Enix's Collection of Mana emulates the default SGB color palette in Final Fantasy Adventure. And of course, Pokemon Yellow's GBC colors are based on Red & Blue's SGB colors.

people overlook the gameboy was literally an overpowered calculator, works the same as those gas station handheld displays, it turned a black square ON and OFF just filled the screen of black squares, letter applied less power to get lighter dark tones

The first Pokémon game cartridges are red, blue, yellow, silver, gold and crystal.

Surprised that Pokemon Gold and Silver didn't come up with anymore detail. They're not well known for working on the original Game Boy. I don't know the differences that well myself, but I know it's not as simple as color vs monochrome, and I do believe they have Super Game Boy Support. Additionally, Space Invaders (while more a Super Game Boy thing rather than a Black Cartridge), had an entire SNES exclusive version on it that can only be accessed via Super Game Boy. Do a detailed Super Game Boy video, please. There's a lot of poorly documented Super Game Boy additional features like increased sound channels, crazy palette manipulations... DK 94 being the flagship.

In general I do like those gameboycolor versions of those games much much better BUT some games just look too overbrighted. For instance on the supergameboy donkeykong land 3 colors just look more warmer while the full colored gameboycolor version just looks waaay too overbrighted and also not all colors of each object do always look great, but i still do like both versions in their own way😁 Also i do like to play that monochrome version of donkeykong land 3 on the gameboycolor to get slightly more in the levels then what you will get on the supergameboy. Now if only there was a way to combine the best of both worlds with each other😁🤣

I haven't bought a game in months, but Try's review of Inside (INSIDE, rather), had me head over to Steam to wishlist the game. But wait! It's 90% off during the summer sale! So I think I can spare $3 to buy it and give it a try!

Tetris DX songs are real bangers. The only one I would change is the middle one, just if you're gonna add the original iconic Tetris song in its place. But, the rest, fantastic.

I prefer the original GB versions over GBC most of the time, there's something special about the washed out look of 4 shades of pea soup green (might just be nostalgia)

I've always though: better no color that ugly colored. Not to mention Nintendo likes to tone down difficulty on re-releases. GBC was a big letdown for me.

30:17 I come from the future with tidings of joyous news.

About a month ago, I bought the Wii Dragon Quest collection brand new off ebay for about $60. I can't play it, cuz I don't have a Japanese Wii, but it looks nice on my Dragon Quest shelf, and it has some nice physical bonuses packed in with it.

This is an interesting coincidence. Maybe around this time last year, I was alternating between binge watching MLiG and NAS videos (with a preference to Synology stuff). I'd like to think I helped Synology and/or UA-cam think there's an overlap between these two markets! haha Unfortuantely, a NAS is still going to be on my "wishlist" rather than my "shopping list" for quite a while, lol

I'd love to see more videos on game compilation in the future! And then, after making a bunch of those episodes, you could make a compilation episode of your game compilation episodes! And maybe even through in some extra goodies like behind the scenes, editor interviews, and concept art!

15:15 I loved Sega Smash Pack not only because of Virtual Cop, but because it introduced me to the Shining Force series!

As for Tetris DX, the game definitely could have updated the palette in real-time without affecting VS mode; *Using standard ATTR_CHR, it is possible to read out screen area mapping palette information by writing updates every 6 by 9 panel / block (12 by 18 CHR) area spanning full height of the screen, ATTR_CHR would have been possible after the 40-bit header. The GB program needs to send 18*12*2 = 432 bits of payload for a total of 472 bits. This would be sent through the ICD2 as one 128-bit packet every 4 VBLANKS, or ceil (472 / 128) = 4 packets over the course of 4*4 = 16 VBLANKS, thus needing to repeat the 4 packets every time the center of the row crosses into a new row of character attributes displayed on-screen. The most practical use of this method is to display updating columns of tiles in a puzzle game using the 12 (minus 4 for in-game screen area designation) palette limitation (should be enough) without using 256 palette display, overwriting palettes assigned to standard SGB function display (menus, etc). Three valid transfers are barely able to output the SNES VBLANK. ;SNES VBLANK 38*1364 = 51832 master clocks (minus 40 byte header) ;24 lines GB = 24*456*5 = 54720 master clocks If JOYPAD registers are read while the game is updating SGB / 2 packets it shouldn't cause issues with the VS link cable. My best guess as to why Tetris DX doesn't include a SGB / 2 palette was because Nintendo didn't want to overshadow the GBC then new capabilities. I included a simple palette patch to address this issue. It really is strange that they couldn't at least include a simple palette.

Pokémon could have its own episode regarding this topic.

According to Wikipedia, there’s apparently custom audio for the GB version of Wario Land II when played on the Super Game Boy. I would really like to hear some of that if that’s the case.

Lots of awesome games i never knew existed please do more of this type of streams . Im gonna buy them all starting with the wanted dead one

12:44 Name game?

As someone who has been researching the SGB /SGB2 Super Game boy for years, the least important area was the comparison between DMG / CGB and SGB / SGB2 modes. Very few games attempted to match the GBC mode and it wasn't always possible due to the 12 palette limitations without using additional SNES hardware and VRAM.

Great video. Even before I started, I wondered if Try would go in-depth on Conker's Pocket Tales and the fact that it's basically a completely different game between GBC and GB. I only found that out a few months ago when I played it on SGB for the first time!

Besides Donkey Kong Land III, there is another game that was released seperately on Game Boy and "Only for Game Boy Color" - Tom & Jerry (1992) and Tom & Jerry (1999). The GBC-exclusive release was just a colorisation of what was a 7 year old game, but with a card matching bonus game added between each level. Would've liked to see a couple more Dual Modes - Bugs Bunny Operation Carrots and Toy Story 2, but still a good video lol. I was well aware of the Tetris DX differences and I'm glad you showed those :) I have to disagree about the music though. While it's not the iconic "Tetris music", it's still nostalgic to me. Korobeiniki is actually in the code, but went unused.

1:00 Director: "Hey, you were supposed to wink to sell the product!" Dog: "Don't worry, I gotchu"

As a huge Pokemon nerd since the series released, even I was surprised when I played Pokemon Red/Blue on my Game Boy Color for the first time. I think Pokemon Red/Blue were designed with the Super Game Boy in mind, and took full advantage of it, but had no idea what the GBC was going to be like. That's my best guess, at least, since Pokemon Yellow uses the same kinds of colour pallets on the GBC as the SGB. And since Pokemon Yellow was the only one I had as a kid with my GBC, and I'd only experienced R/B on the SGB, I'd assumed Yellow's GBC compatibility was the norm! From memory, the biggest difference that I can recall is that the towns don't all have their own unique colours when playing R/B on the GBC, but Yellow does, as do R/B on the SGB. So the SGB is undoubtedly the best way to play R/B.

Glad yall covered Dragon Quest 1&2 to fill in for the previous vid and also this subject as well. I noticed the differences in Pokemon Pinball when switching to the regular GB mode on my Analogue Pocket. Was neat seeing what was missing from the playfield and how the art changed so was curious what other titles did the same. Thanks for making this!

Great video on an under explored topic. I’d love to see you return to this with more examples sometime.

Im using both at the same time & very happy with my results. When I do, at times, my LG tv wants to give me HDR at 4k but goes back to SDR 4k.

No offense, but the example meal you showed for Factor looks horrifying.

I’ve never seen a cgr mug that wasn’t filled with marks brew of choice. 😂 input beer output fun.

Nice one Try. Though, I disagree with you on Tetris DX; when it launched I was disappointed in the music selection, and the omission of the Tetris song (Type A music from the original). However I was blown away by the little colour flourishes like the scrolling back grounds and cycling colour gradient transitions. Even back then, the GBC was a late follow up to the GB's 'withered technology' with more 'withered technology', but there was nothing else so the colour and processor speed bump did impress somewhat. I know the screen can seem dark, but have always found it to be a sharp display with great colours. Good news is there's a ROM hack that allows you to add the original song Type A song back in! I think it was in the code, but unused and the hack just swaps it in. I just wish I could get the NES' song 3 hacked in too, it's beautiful.

I like the Tetris DX soundtrack, but nothing beats Sega’s Tetris themes.

Awesome to learn more about the games and their various features. There's very likely more black carts with unique colorations and other differences. When you mentioned the save compatibility with Conker, I did remember that the original version of Wario Land II also refused to share the file between SGB and non-SGB systems, and the GBC version possibly works similar. Wario Land II also has a restriction I haven't seen in any other game, that when played on SGB prohibits to turn off the unique SGB palette. It's still a mystery to me how that's even accomplished.

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