This is a followup on my footers thread, I have succeeded in getting back the original colors instead of the washed out/dark/mute colors every GBA VC has.

It's actually quite simple; every string of numbers that go like this: 00 00 00 00 00 00 in blocks of six are now changed to blocks of three until you reach FF FF FF.

I have already gone through the trouble of writing all the values out in a separate file ORIGINAL.bin
Simply go through the process of making a footer, open it in a hex editor and open original.bin as well, select everything in it and copy it to the footer starting at offset 0x24.

Should look like this:

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Ideally the GBA footer generator should get updated with this option to avoid hex editing and name the other settings something more accurate than "Memory Config".

Comparison shots

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Bonus: Remove or add more ghosting/blur
Edit byte at offset 0x20

0xFF/255 = No blurring/ghosting
0xF0/240 = Very little ghosting
0xC0/192 = Official value, standard ghosting
0x80/128 = Official value, more ghosting, highly noticeable
0x20/32 = Insane ghosting
0x01 = MAX

 

[bi388]

is paste the same thing as write over?

No pasting will add within the footer, you want to write over the footer code

 

[bytar]

No pasting will add within the footer, you want to write over the footer code

i didn't find it. the game worked but with a black screen though

 

[bi388]

i didn't find it. the game worked but with a black screen though

If you use HxD it will be an option when you right click

 

[bytar]

what if i delete after the original.bin codes? i think it is the same thing

If you use HxD it will be an option when you right click

it has paste insert instead of it

 

[bytar]

i am so tired of this. it didn't work for me or i couldn't do it. thank you anyway.

 

[MrLuigix64]

This could be used to games that are already on cia?

 

[bytar]

please someone upload their fixed games.

 

[zekepliskin]

please someone upload their fixed games.

Well, I'll do one for you so you can see the different the colour hack does if it's implemented correctly.

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I have this installed on my O3DS, works perfectly.

 

[bytar]

Well, I'll do one for you so you can see the different the colour hack does if it's implemented correctly.

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I have this installed on my O3DS, works perfectly.

thank you man i'll try it. i wish someone do it same thing on the iso site.

 

[zekepliskin]

thank you man i'll try it. i wish someone do it same thing on the iso site.

No worries. Personally I think it's too niche for them to do, it's specifically for hacked GBA support on the 3DS. MK:SC is a good one to choose because it doesn't require any weird settings or hex editing the GBA ROM file to make the saving work correctly, which I had to do to get Pokémon: FireRed working for example. Or Donkey Kong Country which worked but wouldn't save correctly, fortunately the SNES version emulates fairly well on blargSNES and I prefer that one anyway.

 

[bytar]

it is perfect. why didn't nintendo do this? why do they f... up the colours of the all vc console games?

 

[a9lh-1user]

Well, I'll do one for you so you can see the different the colour hack does if it's implemented correctly.

<snip>

I have this installed on my O3DS, works perfectly.

It is forbidden to post ROM's here.

 

[zekepliskin]

It is forbidden to post ROM's here.

Sorry, wasn't deliberate, I forgot it contravenes the forum rules. Won't happen again.

 

[bi388]

it is perfect. why didn't nintendo do this? why do they f... up the colours of the all vc console games?

They didn't, if you buy an advance this is what the colors look like. The edited roms look more like gba games on ds lite or emulator which is not how they were intended to look. That being said they still look better this way imo.

 

[zekepliskin]

They didn't, if you buy an advance this is what the colors look like. The edited roms look more like gba games on ds lite or emulator which is not how they were intended to look. That being said they still look better this way imo.

Agreed, just because the GBA had a primitive washed out looking screen that's no reason the GBA emulator on the 3DS (which is superb, quality wise analogous to how the PS1 emulator is on the PS Vita) needs to suffer the same fate.

I'm surprised we have a GBA VC at all, from what I've read it only exists because Nintendo released about 10 titles to people who paid full launch price as a compensation. Why they didn't decide to monetise it for O3DS is anyone's guess but meh, we can exploit it for any title so it's all good.

 

[bytar]

but we have the same gray filter on every vc console games except snes...

 

[Helix Fossil]

Is there a way to apply this to GBA games already installed as .cia files? I have about 30-35 GBA games installed and I reaaaaaally don't wanna redo them all...

 

[piratesephiroth]

You talk about "original" colors but that's completely wrong. The games were designed to be displayed in the GBA's LCD so the colors look saturated when running on emulators.

You're not restoring anything. AGB_FIRM already attempts to reproduce the original experience (except that stupid ghosting... no idea where they took that from).

 

[GerbilSoft]

IIRC, Game Boy Player renders games using a direct 15-bit RGB conversion (i.e. what the hack in this thread does) instead of darkening it. I'd have to double-check, but I don't remember GBA games being as dark as they are on 3DS on the GB Player.

 

[bi388]

Also a huge number of gba games are ports from other systems, and their gba colors are actually the incorrect colors