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title: "Color palettes on Game Boy Color and Advance"
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date: 2020-09-15T21:45:00+02:00
authors:
- robert-kaussow
tags:
- Gaming
- Hardware
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- Today I learned
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resources:
- name: feature
src: "images/feature.jpg"
params:
anchor: Center
credits: >
[Lorenzo Herrera](https://unsplash.com/@lorenzoherrera) on
[Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/s/photos/gameboy)
- name: color-palette
src: "images/color-palette-example.jpg"
title: Comparison between default color (left) and gray scale (right).
---
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In my last article about [modernizing a Game Boy Advance](/posts/modernize-a-game-boy-advance/), one of my complaints was the ugly coloring of old Game Boy Classic games and I thought about buying an additional Game Boy Classic. But first I wanted to check if there was a mod for the Game Boy Advance to fix this problem.
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Well, what I found out after a short research was mind-blowing for me! The gorgeous engineers at Nintendo had already integrated a function into the Game Boy Color and the Game Boy Advance to choose between [12 color palettes](https://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/gameboyadvance/colorchange.jsp).
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| Color | Shortcut |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------- |
| BROWN <svg width="20" height="12"><rect width="20" height="12" style="fill:#fac08f" /></svg> | UP |
| BLUE <svg width="20" height="12"><rect width="20" height="12" style="fill:#8db3e2" /></svg> | LEFT |
| PASTEL <svg width="20" height="12"><rect width="20" height="12" style="fill:#e5e0ec" /></svg> | DOWN |
| GREEN <svg width="20" height="12"><rect width="20" height="12" style="fill:#76923c" /></svg> | RIGHT |
| RED <svg width="20" height="12"><rect width="20" height="12" style="fill:#c0504d" /></svg> | UP + A |
| DARK BLUE <svg width="20" height="12"><rect width="20" height="12" style="fill:#366092" /></svg> | LEFT + A |
| ORANGE <svg width="20" height="12"><rect width="20" height="12" style="fill:#f79646" /></svg> | DOWN + A |
| DARK GREEN <svg width="20" height="12"><rect width="20" height="12" style="fill:#4f6128" /></svg> | RIGHT + A |
| DARK BROWN <svg width="20" height="12"><rect width="20" height="12" style="fill:#974806" /></svg> | UP + B |
| GRAY SCALE <svg width="20" height="12"><rect width="20" height="12" style="fill:#bfbfbf" /></svg> | LEFT + B |
| YELLOW <svg width="20" height="12"><rect width="20" height="12" style="fill:#ffe694" /></svg> | DOWN + B |
| NEGATIVE <svg width="20" height="12"><rect width="20" height="12" style="fill:#ffffff" /></svg> | RIGHT + B |
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Today I learned about a great feature that I've never known in all the years of my childhood. But there is still a small downside: Changing the color palette works only for GB classic games.