For most of your Gameboy needs, Visual Boy Advance does it all; Gameboy, Super GB, GB Color, and GB Advance.
However, one emulator I never see mentioned anywhere is HeboWin. I'm guessing that's because it's in Japanese, and it was hosted on a bare Geocities page, which is now dead. One thing that was built into the Gameboy Color was a built-in palette for full color support for some of the original GB games, such as Tetris, Donkey Kong, Super Mario Land series, Metroid II, etc. Hebowin is the only emulator I know of that supports this. I remember reading this once on a news site (can't remember which one), and that was the last I ever saw of it. Go around and try to find Hebowin mentioned anywhere or how to run it on any other major emulation site; I bet you can't and it's a shame, because the older games look really good with the new colors.
So now, for the first time on an English emulation site, here's how to run Hebowin:
- Get the emulator here.
- Unzip the emulator to a directory of your choice.
- Open up the file "HeboWin.ini", and under the [Path] heading there should be a line that says:
PaletteDir=
Type in the path of your palette directory.
- Now we have fun. Run the emulator and load up the game of your choice. On the menu, click
Options >> Palette >> User
This tells the emulator that you are going to use a custom palette file. Now click
Options >> Palette >> Edit >> Load
and pick the palette file for the game you are running, and POOF!! You're running old, classic games in full color.
- If the game you want to play isn't listed, you can edit and save your own. Have fun!!
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