Homebrew it IS possible to play GB games in color on the 3DS

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that's nice and all but a bit missleading, playing then in goomba is like playing an emulator inside an emulator, it's neither clean or something you would want to do...
Plus goomba isn't playing the game in fullspeed and has graphical glitches.
if you really want a good result I would recommend playing the game with gameyob in 3ds/ds mode instead.
it actually plays the games at full speed with no glitches so idk what you are talking about and its simply used as a method to actually play the games in color...also gba mode is not an emulator
 
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Another way of playing them in color, is launching the game in TWLoader, and then GameYob (DS version) will load it in color, if you have the GBC BIOS set.
And sleep mode works properly there.
 
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Another way of playing them in color, is launching the game in TWLoader, and then GameYob (DS version) will load it in color, if you have the GBC BIOS set.
And sleep mode works properly there.
how is it that the 3DS port of gameyob can do it without the GBC BIOS but the DS version cant?
also, where do i put the BIOS?
 

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GameYob works in TWLoader?
Yes.
Just put the games in "sd:/roms/gb", launch the game in TWLoader, and GameYob will start it.
Make sure TWLoader is up-to-date, and that the "_nds" folder is extracted from the latest version's .7z file, in the "sdroot" folder.
 
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Yes.
Just put the games in "sd:/roms/gb", launch the game, and GameYob will start it.
Make sure TWLoader is up-to-date, and that the "_nds" folder is extracted from the latest version's .7z file, in the "sdroot" folder.
Awesome, Thanks Robz8
 

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It's fully possible

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Yes that's the GB VC not an emulator
 
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I've been trying to get this to work for a while with Donkey Kong(which has a full set of 8 color palettes built into it). Even has its own fancy border.
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But I can't get any Virtual Console injects to play it this way.
 

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