Super Game Boy in All Green on CRT 

I personally like the fact that Game Boy isn't just green, but blank space is yellowish olive-green, and colors get closer to blue the darker they are. This gives it a very distinct look.

interesting hack, but, i really hate it in all the games you've got footage of a gameboy there the 'white' is like a beige tan and then it folds through three shades of desaturated greens til its almost black as a kid who grew up with a stock standard gb-original and never got any fancy pocket or colour upgrades: i've never understood the neon green 'recreations' people make for fan-art or emulators online art / emulation palettes featuring the actual palette from like tanbeige to darkdark-notblack-green seem to be very rare and far and few between

Way too saturated green on that method. Honestly the green palettes on the cartridge were fine and probably closer to the brick experience.

The monochrome green reminds me of early PC gaming more than my first experiences with a Game Boy. It just reminds me of gaming on my old Apple IIe with it's monochrome screen (except the GB had much better graphics).

The background green seems too dark compared to actual GB but I love the idea!

Well, it'd be one thing if the green actually looked like the kind of green that a Gameboy screen has, but this most definitely isn't it. This is the most pure form of green & just does not fit. I also VERY much like the bit of space between the pixels. If they could find a way to accurately re-create that and the way the pixels looked on a bigger screen, then that would be amazing!

Would have been neat to split the luma signal and use potentiometers on each to vary the strength of the signal, then plugging each into R, G and B, effectively giving you the ability to fine-tune the green color to not be so saturated.

"Hulk approves this video " It's a very interesting experience we have here, man.

Neat!

Someone once told me Game Boy screens didn't used to be so green and blurry, they just decayed over time? Although I distinctly remember them being insanely hard to see in the 90s even. lol. That's why my Game Boy Pocket was such an upgrade.

What a wonderful video this is. I admire the quest to replicate the OG experience on a CRT, and generally love the All Green option (but would probably desaturate it a touch myself). I've recently been loving playing Game Boy on my consumer CRT but instead of using the GC Game Boy Player have found compiling my favourite GB games with a GnuBoy emulator image for Dreamcast the most convenient option. It's accurate and lag-free enough to be a great experience while I'm on a DC kick. Those huge pixels look amazing despite a lack of pallette options. Anyway, great work!

I really like this look because it reminds me of the very first IBM XT I had with that all green monochrome screen. Thanks for sharing!

Even though the monochrome green is the natural state for the original Gameboy, I grew up with an amber monochrome PC, so I will always prefer it over green, even when green is objectively correct. Great video! Novel idea!

It looks awful, and I prefer the more GB-like muted yellow-green. It's still an interesting and educational video when you consider the information about that s-video sync contraption, though!

Cool experiment and as always, great video!

I'm not sure about the all green invoking my nostalgia but seeing a lot of the games in this video sure did.

I'm reminded of the Virtual Boy, re-tinted.

You are forgetting the biggest appeal of an experiment like this. Tubes with burned-out filaments, can receive a new purpose, becoming a dedicated Gameboy screen. ...along with being repurposed as an oscilloscope and vector screens. :)

I liked the idea, but to be honest, it hurt my eyes a bit XD. My options for playing Game Boy games is through emulation only. On PC, I tend to set my CRT monitor to 256x192@150Hz and set the emulator for a 1:1 scale. The "blank" scanlines are huge, but I actually prefer it like that. I also play Game Boy games on my Nintendo Wii with component cables on a 29" CRT, using a modified emulator coded by "Extrems", the guy that made Game Boy Interface. His "Enhanced mGBA" seems to have basically the same functions as with Game Boy Interface, but it depends on the mGBA emulator, which currently is not that accurate on the Wii. At least it has very nice options, including the original GBP borders, options for either pixel perfect or "4:3" scaling (guess it's the same case as with the Super Game Boy), 240p, and some other neat options for changing palettes, including GBA color palettes. I go back and forth between green or black and white, but it really depends on the game. Fun fact, I was somewhat forced to play some PlayStation 2 games in black and white XD. By brother had brought over a PS2 for me to play, but father wouldn't let us play using the 20" TV that had a composite input. I had a PS1 at the time, and played games on it using a RF "converter" box on a 14" TV that only had coaxial. Since the PS2 uses the same "AV out" port, we could use the box on the PS2. It worked ok with color when playing PS1, but on the PS2, games tended to automatically set to PAL, maybe because the thing was for "PAL-M" signals, and since the TV didn't support European PAL signals, it would display games in black and white XD. I played a good portion of Resident Evil 4 like that... Good times!

Feels like playing games on an 80s PC, more than anything :)

4:39 Yeah, that palette is the default palette, used for all third-party games (any game not detected as a Nintendo-published game. I can't remember if the SGB does it but I know the GBC boot ROM even goes to the extent of detecting just Nintendo-published regional variants. Such as it will detect only the European versions of Seiken Densetsu/Final Fantasy Adventure/Mystic Quest). I find it funny that in the Collection of Mana for the Switch, that default SGB palette is one of the palette options for the first game in the compilation. It would be like M2 if they offered an option to edit the palette like an actual SGB, but maybe they didn't have time, or other reason to not include a secret option to do that?

You can edit palettes in the SGB already. There are 3 greens to choose and you can adjust darkness of each one to make it look exactly like this :)

Neat. Reminds me of the old green phosphor screens. Long time since I saw one of those around.

You can use an analog volume control for red blue and green to control each color independently.

That's pretty cool! And, of course the green fits the gameboy best and is reminiscent of oldschool IBM terminals, but I bet using blue or red looks even better.

neat

Catching up on your excellent content. No opinion on the topic but I like what I see and your quality is way too good for a mere 800 likes.

NEAT! AND NO I DO NOT MOVE ON I've wanted to do this for soooo long! I own a SONY Trinitron 27inch CRT and I can turn off/on any color (RGB) using the service menu, but it doesn't look as good as your setup. Using a Wii and Retroarch with Gambatte gives many color palettes (all those that came with the Super Gameboy besides a couple more made by the devs) but they just won't be as green as yours. Yours looks good.

The thing is though, the "black" tint on the OG Game Boy isn't all "black", but a shade of very dark blue. Later models changed the liquid crystal somehow and the darker shade is actual black.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks about stuff like this! I tried a similar thing as a dedicated Gameboy setup using a pvm 97 and a yellow tint. It seems more like the original feel to me. I have a video up of it....pvm 97 Super Gameboy. By the way, you have great production and content! Thanks for the good stuff!

For Super Mario Land 2, I'd have to play with the GBC's colour palette. The nostaliga aswell as it working pretty well just makes it the way to play for me

I reckon Mario Land would look pretty good with inverted picture on a green-only CRT.

I've wanted a Super Game Boy for years now and do have the Gameboy Player for the Game Cube and the picture quality with that is good but could have been better. You can also play Game Boy games with an SNES flash cart on real hardware and clone systems that support it. Very informative well thought out video good job.

Several games long after the GB that are played on PC and TV Consoles have used GB's green pallet for aesthetic inspiration. Clearly this is something that people like. It's like a niche, but it's not just left in the past.

Use black and white CRT with yellow/green acrylic plastic over the screen, like in the game boy kiosk.

Yesterday i tried to mimik the Gameboy Screen ist with the Super Gameboy and today i see this Video :) You can make your own Colour Palette with four different greens until it fits for you.

It's worth noting that the screen on an original Game Boy gets more pea-soupy as it ages. While it always uses greens, a fairly new one gives you a better approximation of black and white. I often would use the black and white color palettes in Super Game Boy as I felt it better reflected what the developers were probably going for.

That is some tech heavy stuff hereand I appreciate every bit of it. But when I play GameBoy games via SuperGameBoy I can easily create the classy green-ish monochrome color palettemyself totally forgoing this rather unusual process. 😇

I love it. It's how I wished the Super Game Bboy displayed games when I was a kid having an old DOS PC with a green CRT. Ii wouldn't mind seeing if I can figure this out.

Metroid II in green looks pretty awesome.

Brings back memories especially Link's awakening

I modded my dmg Gameboy with a bivert chip and a green back backlight, this is basically how my Gameboy looks on it's screen when I play it now. I chose a green backlight instead of the more authentic pea green backlight that was also available, because I liked how it looked like an old monochrome computer monitor.

Some of those games need the palette inverted, like Parodius. I think it would look better if the empty space was darker.

While the setup used to achieve the effect is neat. I do think it is just a bit too niche. I really enjoy the darker green effect rather than just the palette swaps of the Super Game Boy. I have a robust program on my computer that I use to filter out blue light, but I can use to tint my screen any color I want. I tried a similar effect with my favorite game boy games, Rolan's curse 2 and Trip world. I originally played Rolan's curse 2 with an emulator on my phone using a super gameboy palette, but going through my computer definitely gave the game a different feel to it, for the better. Trip world Felt just a bit too busy though. So I don't think my faux green CRT display is a one size fits all solution.

This is so esoteric it reminds me of those random videos that would pop up in your RU-vid feed circa 2008. In a good way. Anyways I don't think this method handles lighter shades too well. It can be a little overbearing. I'd stick with one of the Super Game Boy default palletes personally.

i just use the pallete maker in the SGB, and depending on game, i invert the lightest to black or make the darkest black i can provide pallete passwords if needed

I'm surprised that changing the settings on your TV's main menu like the color saturation and tint wasn't a part of this video. I think the green would have looked better if it was more muted.

It's like playing a gameboy on a Hercules graphics card.

This looks like Green Virtual Boy lol

I'm pretty surprised he didn't bring up the fact that you can assign your own four color pallet at will, instead only going with the presets. Soon after I bought my Super Gameboy back in the mid 90s whenever I play I _ALWAYS_ use a custom pallet. The presets are meh to me.

dude you have taste you have the crt holy grail a sony pvm

As someone who didn't grow up with the Game Boy, I prefer colors, but in my opinion, any default SGB or GBC palette is better than this. It's really harsh looking. If I were to go with monochrome, even the pea green palettes are better. I think it has a nice charm for the monochrome games.

I got a super game boy 1. And fx pak. And hd retrovision cables. Also component crt. I'm going to try this. I think it will produce results since my cable syncs on green

Oh wow, that looks so good! That’s exactly how I wish my Gameboy looked! I’m totally trying this one day.

Wonder if there's a method to connect the SNES to an Amstrad CPC or Vectrex screen?

Yeah, that’s pretty neat.

Mono green display, like an IBM PC CRT monitor. I would use this, if it made sense to do so.

I love it all. My Game Boy is backlit with a green light, reminds me of that. Now, I have Super Game Boy, but I love the customization of the Game Boy Interface on the GameCube more. However, there's no green anything, been looking for ages. Based on what you said, if I'm using Y'PbPr, all I need to do is remove the red and blue to achieve that all-green?

It's a bit too saturated green. Sending some of the luma information to the red and blue signals with a resistor would perhaps make it more palatable (pun intended). Heck make them potentiometers so it's adjustable 😁

looks like IBM green monochrome monitor :D

I'm not the biggest fan of the 100% green, mostly because it seems too dark. It doesn't seem like too big of a leap to hack together a box that takes in luma on one side, splits it three ways, and dumps it into all three channels with variable resistors on each. That should allow you to adjust the exact color and give you access to a brighter more yellowy green which would be more accurate to the Game Boy pallette.

Can a Super Game Boy work on a Fami-clone system like the Retro Duo which can handle both NES and SNES cartridges?

The detail in tmnt breaks my mind tbh

did nintendo use the same technique to display gameboy on crt for the Gamboy display station...?

As someone who owns a Super Game Boy 2, it bothers me that Nintendo didn’t put in the extra effort to make the internals that of a Game Boy Color, which would give so many more color options plus the ability to play GBC only games like Pokémon Crystal and the Zelda Oracle games. I often wonder if it’s possible to modify these to that degree.

IMO, amber colour is more relaxing to my eye, especially in low ambient lighting conditions.

Fun idea. I would play GB games this way but wish SNES had option to keep original aspect ratio.

Neat.

My ikegami professional monitor let's you disable the red and blue guns by simply pushing a button, I guess I should get a super game boy to try that out for myself.

I prefer pink-purple-indigo pallete on an emulator. it looks neat.

Kind of looks more like the Newton display, than a Game Boy

Doesn't SGB let you make your own palettes anyway?

Well done!

I can't say I like it. The lightest color on an original game boy is more of very light yellow-green, whereas it's a bright green in your method. I think I the regular monochromatic palette of the Super Game Boy captures the intent of the original game boy the most.

Why do people remember the GB being green? It is yellow/green not green-green. Love the the instructional side though :)

Neat

I would play on any color doesn’t matter to me much, but I do prefer green, but not too dark…a little tad bit lighter and I’m good to go 👍

Despite the fact the picture is obviously grilled.

I think I like all-green for OG GB. I don't think pure green is quite "original" since the original LCD is kind of shades of brown on a greenish background … but I don't really like the original and always found it really hard to see … Mostly I think rendering it in shades of green just is more pleasing to my eye vs. the typical monochrome choice.

Oh cool! -playing on game boy brick

Interesting idea but it really was too much of a bright kelly green, the original GB was definitely more muted...to recreate it maybe a green film placed over a b&w tv image would look more true to the OG GB

How come your PVM scanlines look vertical, rather than horizontal? Is that just the way the video was recorded or are they really vertical? I notice that from time to time on some monitors being recorded, wondering if it's just my eyes playing tricks and me perceiving it weirdly. I love the Game Boy in green only, that's why I checked your video and it looks great.

Honestly feel no nostalgia for the Game Brick's green shades, but still a pretty neat experiment.

Can I ask what camera and lens and a brief description of settings you used to capture the screen of the 8 inch pvm? I would love do be able to do video that good of my bvm d9h5u. Thanks

My first thought was, what if you ran composite video into a green monochrome CRT monitor from the 80's?

The greens on super game boy looks a bit too intense. Like watching it through mountain dew glass.

I assumed you would do some sort of mod to the cart such as a game genie code or something. This isn't the same.

Could be good if you have a crt with weak red and blue.

your green looks like a monochrome pc monitor

The Gameboy is more yellowish-green then pure green. You might want to leave that red rca adapter in with the green.

The green palette on the cartridge is fine. Interesting method but it's completely wrong. I'll watch any gameboy content though!

It looks like an Apple II monitor. The color is way saturated for the washed green the OG GB had.

do it on a green phosphor crt

"Was monochrome gaming on a CRT worth it?" Yes, for the simple fact that AA batteries cost money. Playing on a "crt" tv was totally viable when you simply wanted to conserve battery power for that long trip ahead. It was one of those, you had to be there to know, sort of deals, lol. Edit: Oh yeah, and it was before the concept of rechargeable batteries were a thing. Even when they were introduced they cost an arm and a leg. It wasn't cheap enough for dumb babies like me who only had a 10 dollar a week allowance. lol

2:27

It seems like anytime I find a video of yours, you're demanding that I "let you know" this or that. Stop asking about my personal life!

I'll play the games however I can get them. I'm not a collector just an player of them. Hence why most of my games are on hacked mini consoles these days.

Neat! And then move on to check the Sony PVT prices ;)

I think I'll prefer advanced games on my full color psp screen to be honest.

This looks nasty all green. The gameboy screen was complete trash but the games were good *in spite* of it. I tolerated the screen, after the SGB came out and then the subsequent models I never looked back.