OG Game Boy Palettes

[YungBonz]

Do you guys use a specific color palette to play classic Game Boy games on emulators?

I ask because I see a lot of gameplays of people using different palettes. I use a modified Super Game Boy palette, as long as an emulator has the option to put a custom palette (like Pizza Boy).

Examples of my modified SGB palette below:

 

[JPC]

I like my Game Boy games like I like my manga : in black & white, and in shades of gray.

 

[DunkeyKong]

Oh that's cute, I usually just have the red and white effect

 

[Gorse]

I was playing Castlevania: The Adventure through that recent collection, and I actually liked the standard Gameboy palette – the green-and-black one, where you can actually see each individual pixel – the best. It made me feel like I was playing on one of those zany old Hong Kong bootleg consoles, like a Game King or a Mega Duck.

God, what a ridiculous device this thing was. It's like if a caveman made a video game console.

 

[YungBonz]

I like my Game Boy games like I like my manga : in black & white, and in shades of gray.

Oh yes!, that good old black and white, it's my second choice if the emulator doesn't have custom palette settings

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I was playing Castlevania: The Adventure through that recent collection, and I actually liked the standard Gameboy palette – the green-and-black one, where you can actually see each individual pixel – the best. It made me feel like I was playing on one of those zany old Hong Kong bootleg consoles, like a Game King or a Mega Duck.

God, what a ridiculous device this thing was. It's like if a caveman made a video game console.

Before I knew the world of Game Boy color palettes, I always had the greenish one, until I knew that some emulators simulated the greenish palette in a different way, so I stopped using it and started to modify the existing ones to my liking and I still don't know if there is one that perfectly simulates the greenish palette today, if there was one, I would keep that one for the rest of my life.
I'm a person who is a bit picky about precise things, you can't really tell, can you?

The Game Boy is one of my favorite consoles because of how simple and straightforward it is in general, in basically everything!

If only I had one and could experience how green it looks instead of playing on emulators :')

 

[Sayo]

I remember always being puzzled by these as a wee lad with my GBC, never knew what caused them then.
I think my favorite is the one with some pastel hues like purple and such.