Gameboy Color Secret Screens 🤫

[phart010 | 1,708]

***Edit: I’ll waste no more time uploading these phots.. apparently someone has already documented all of these screens in high definition here: http://www.vgmuseum.com/features/warn/

 

If you pop a Gameboy Color exclusive game into a regular gameboy, you get a screen that tells you it only plays on Gameboy color. Some of these screens are simply text, others actually have some artwork. I figured I wouldn’t be able to upload them all, so maybe we can work together to find out what some of the more interesting ones are?

Edited September 24, 2020 by phart010

[DoctorEncore | 3,691]

This is really cool. I had no idea this existed. Thanks for sharing.

[phart010 | 1,708]

Now who has Shantae?

[phart010 | 1,708]

I could have sworn I remember seeing another Mario picture... can’t remember what game it was.

More pictures:

 

[ThePhleo | 2,186]

God I love this hobby. Anyone else want to stop collecting and just go full archival mode? No? Ok  

These are really cool and I vaguely remember seeing this in my preteen years. 

[DefaultGen | 5,436]

I know I’ve had at least a short discussion on whether all GBC games “count” for the Game Boy set because technically they launch and play this software 

[RH | 4,980]

4 minutes ago, DefaultGen said:

I know I’ve had at least a short discussion on whether all GBC games “count” for the Game Boy set because technically they launch and play this software 

No!

[DefaultGen | 5,436]

3 minutes ago, RH said:

No!

Sorry, this is now collecting canon and you’ll have to get them all (with every variant)

[Gloves | 11,841]

They "work" on regular Game Boy; they have code that "plays" on it. So yeah - GBC officially part of the GB set. Wow. Times they are a changin.

Pokemon Yellow is a Game Boy game, confirmed.

[MegaMan52 | 2,461]

[phart010 | 1,708]

6 hours ago, MegaMan52 said:

What a disappointment. You would have thought that Capcom would give us a cool image of Zero...

[ThePhleo | 2,186]

6 hours ago, DefaultGen said:

Sorry, this is now collecting canon and you’ll have to get them all (with every variant)

My eyelid literally twitched trying to consider it.

But what does that make the SNES with the Super Game Boy, the Gamecube with the Game Boy Player.......or Pokemon Stadium for the n64

[Gloves | 11,841]

23 minutes ago, ThePhleo said:

My eyelid literally twitched trying to consider it.

But what does that make the SNES with the Super Game Boy, the Gamecube with the Game Boy Player.......or Pokemon Stadium for the n64

All officially Game Boy. 

[ThePhleo | 2,186]

29 minutes ago, Gloves said:

All officially Game Boy. 

 

(But what about eReader....is it its own platform, a game boy advance add-on console, a gamecube add-on console)

[chuppy44 | 56]

I'd imagine most people are also not aware that if you play Conker's Pocket Tales on an original game boy you get quite a radically altered version of the game. I remember playing through both versions back when it came out and slightly preferred the non-color version though they both had pros and cons if I recall. I never thought about why, but I guess it was technically a GBC exclusive game that GB couldn't run (maybe the first one?) but they also included a GB game on the same cart. I wonder if there were any other carts that were like that or if Conker was the only one.

[RH | 4,980]

I'm fine collecting the black hybrids. But Gloves, you're wrong.  SNES/GameCube are not now GB games... it makes Game Boy games official SNES and GameCube games!

Eat it you SNES/GC collectors.  I've I have to collect 10,000 more carts, so do you! Mwaaaahaaahaahaaaa!

EDIT

And you poor DS collectors.  I'll not laugh at you.  You really do have it the worst with, what, 25+ years of gaming to collect.

Edited September 25, 2020 by RH

[guitarzombie | 927]

I dig this stuff!

[phart010 | 1,708]

LAME!

[ThePhleo | 2,186]

6 hours ago, RH said:

And you poor DS collectors.  I'll not laugh at you.  You really do have it the worst with, what, 25+ years of gaming to collect.

Game Boy games are DS games. So, 31 years.

You can't even say something like "They removed the Game Boy slot in the DSi and onwards" because then you have to admit that PS5 and Xbox Series games aren't PS5 and Xbox Series games since they have models without disc slots.....or that Wii Ware games aren't Wii games because they removed internet connectivity on the Wii Mini.

[MegaMan52 | 2,461]

Just wanted to point out that Elevator Action EX's screen has music (the same music that plays on the title screen).

Also, Super Mario Bros. Deluxe's screen has an unused sound that can be played with a Game Genie.

[Tanooki | 4,952]

I find that story about Conkers more interesting than the rest of this outside of some of the prettier screen captures.  I would have to wonder what the motivation was there basically hiding a game.  It reminds me how they kind of hid a real SNES game within the Space Invaders cart that only the SGB could toggle.

[Estil | 1,265]

On 9/25/2020 at 2:14 PM, ThePhleo said:

Game Boy games are DS games. So, 31 years.

You can't even say something like "They removed the Game Boy slot in the DSi and onwards" because then you have to admit that PS5 and Xbox Series games aren't PS5 and Xbox Series games since they have models without disc slots.....or that Wii Ware games aren't Wii games because they removed internet connectivity on the Wii Mini.

I disagree -- Nintendo themselves made clear the DS was a "separate product line" from GBA....though they most likely were using it to CYA just in case the DS didn't work out.  The DS is just much too different from GB/GBC/GBA to not be any less than the start of a whole new product line.  If you guys get what I mean by that.

As for the WiiWare games, well TBH unless it's on an actual disc (or at least had a disc version) then it's not a real Wii game.

[Estil | 1,265]

On 9/25/2020 at 1:05 PM, phart010 said:

LAME!

You talkin' Night Court in its fifth season lame?   Anyway you can actually find out what all the GBC warning screens look like...

http://www.vgmuseum.com/features/warn/

[ThePhleo | 2,186]

On 9/27/2020 at 11:23 PM, Estil said:

I disagree -- Nintendo themselves made clear the DS was a "separate product line" from GBA....though they most likely were using it to CYA just in case the DS didn't work out.  The DS is just much too different from GB/GBC/GBA to not be any less than the start of a whole new product line.  If you guys get what I mean by that.

As for the WiiWare games, well TBH unless it's on an actual disc (or at least had a disc version) then it's not a real Wii game.

I was being cheeky really.

I personally even separate DSi, and New 3DS games from their respective lists.

I even go as far as calling Aladdin Deck Enhancer games, eReader, and Sega CD32X games their own platform.

As far as I’m concerned there exists the following Nintendo handheld generations:

1. Game & Watch

2. Game Boy

3. Game Boy Color

4. Virtual Boy

5. Game Boy Advance

6. Pokemon Mini

7. Nintendo eReader

8. Nintendo DS

9. Nintendo DSi

10. Nintendo 3DS

11. New Nintendo 3DS

12. Nintendo Switch

There may be some stuff I’m missing, like I know as a fact that “Pokemon Pikachu” and it’s sequel aren’t part of the “Pokemon Mini” line and are actually dedicated handhelds instead of cartridge based games, but then again so are the Game & Watch games....also, I’m not sure if Virtual Boy and Switch are closer related to their own category instead of being considered handhelds.

Either way, it boils down to the fact that I separate the gameboy and DS lines.

[phart010 | 1,708]

7 minutes ago, ThePhleo said:

I was being cheeky really.

I personally even separate DSi, and New 3DS games from their respective lists.

I even go as far as calling Aladdin Deck Enhancer games, eReader, and Sega CD32X games their own platform.

As far as I’m concerned there exists the following Nintendo handheld generations:

1. Game & Watch

2. Game Boy

3. Game Boy Color

4. Virtual Boy

5. Game Boy Advance

6. Pokemon Mini

7. Nintendo eReader

8. Nintendo DS

9. Nintendo DSi

10. Nintendo 3DS

11. New Nintendo 3DS

12. Nintendo Switch

There may be some stuff I’m missing, like I know as a fact that “Pokemon Pikachu” and it’s sequel aren’t part of the “Pokemon Mini” line and are actually dedicated handhelds instead of cartridge based games, but then again so are the Game & Watch games....also, I’m not sure if Virtual Boy and Switch are closer related to their own category instead of being considered handhelds.

Either way, it boils down to the fact that I separate the gameboy and DS lines.

There’s “Game & Watch” and there’s “Game Watch”