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Color palettes on Game Boy Color and Advance	2020-09-15T21:45:00+02:00	robert-kaussow	Gaming Hardware Today I learned	name src params feature images/feature.jpg anchor credits Center [Lorenzo Herrera](https://unsplash.com/@lorenzoherrera) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/s/photos/gameboy) name src title color-palette images/color-palette-example.jpg Comparison between default color (left) and gray scale (right).

In my last article about modernizing 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.

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.

Color	Shortcut
BROWN	UP
BLUE	LEFT
PASTEL	DOWN
GREEN	RIGHT
RED	UP + A
DARK BLUE	LEFT + A
ORANGE	DOWN + A
DARK GREEN	RIGHT + A
DARK BROWN	UP + B
GRAY SCALE	LEFT + B
YELLOW	DOWN + B
NEGATIVE	RIGHT + B

{{< img name="color-palette" >}}

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.