Video: Let's Learn More About The Super Game Boy

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by Darren Calvert Mon 19th Dec 2016

Typical. You wait years for someone to do a decent, in-depth video guide to the Super Game Boy and two come along at once.

A few weeks ago we reported on Pug Hoof Gaming's excellent three-part series on the popular peripheral, and now our old chum Norm "The Gaming Historian" is back with his increasingly luscious hair to teach us everything we need to know about the Super Game Boy and the translucent Super Game Boy 2.

If you are somewhat of a retro connoisseur you'll no doubt know this device let you play original Game Boy carts on the big screen with the help of your Super Nintendo. What is most fascinating however is the ability to apply colour palettes to the original games. Norm gives a great explanation about how the technique was used in Donkey Kong '94 to make it really pop on the screen.

Be sure to check out the video and let us know if you learned anything new with a comment below.

[source youtube.com]

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Moon
Mon 19th Dec 2016

The vid you posted the other week went a lot more in-depth, though this vid was cool too.

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Solid_Stannis
Mon 19th Dec 2016

I just gotta say it: I hate translucent shells for electronic devices. It makes everything look like a cheap toy. That's something they should leave behind, dead and broken, in the '90s where such affronts to style and design belong.

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ThatGirlFinley
Mon 19th Dec 2016

That was pretty cool. A nice summary and it was quite informative. I never even knew the Super Gameboy existed but I do now. XD

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ThatGirlFinley
Mon 19th Dec 2016

@Solid_Stannis I actually really love translucent shells on electronics. I think it's very cool and interesting to be able to see the components that make up the device.

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Ryu_Niiyama
Mon 19th Dec 2016

I wish Nintendo was still in the market of making their handheld games playable on consoles. VC is not an adequate substitute because of lack of a robust library and you would have to re buy your portable library. I had held out hopes that the NS would have had some BC with 3ds (the screen is large enough to have both screens side by side if the NS has a touch screen) but alas my dreams have been dashed. I'll be doing a capture card with tv output at some point.

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OneBagTravel
Mon 19th Dec 2016

I actually purchased the first JP Gameboy Color due to it not having those annoying lights on the front.

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sdelfin
Mon 19th Dec 2016

As was already mentioned, there's a Super Gameboy trend lately with Youtube videos. I watched the Pug Hoof video, the My Life in Gaming thorough Gameboy video, and this one(I've been subbed to Gaming Historian for a while). I'm easily mesmerized by stuff like this, I guess. All well done. This one is the easiest one to digest for those just a little bit curious about this topic.