Mr. Eight-Three-One | Space Invaders (Super Game Boy) Gameplay @MrEightThreeOne | Uploaded 3 years ago | Updated 23 hours ago
NOTE: There is an editing error in this video where some text comes up about four seconds later than it's supposed to. My bad. Sorry about that.
The most remarkable feat ever achieved on the Super Game Boy on the absolute most unassuming game.
So, this isn't like what I usually upload, but it's something I just had to preserve on this site. It's not properly showcased in most videos in its raw form, which I guess is a bit reasonable considering it is annoyingly convoluted and painful to set up in an emulator for little gain. So, what is this exactly?
Back during the Game Boy's heyday, you saw plenty of arcade conversions to offer an option for playing arcade classics on the go. These are usually nothing more than novelties these days considering there are tons of much better ways to play these games on the road and they probably wouldn't be your first choice anyway. There was also an accessory released for the Super Nintendo that allowed one to play Game Boy games on the TV, complete with selectable color palettes and a border. Some games took advantage of the features of this accessory by having special pre-programmed palettes that could even color specific areas of the screen differently from others, giving a better illusion of true color rather than just a gradient of one color over a monochrome image.
And then there's this game.
Okay, so it has enhancements as expected, including a custom border and several extra modes that only apply on an SGB that mimic different versions of the arcade cabinet -- you can pick true black and white, or mimic one of the two ways the original game achieved "color" by adding horizontal "masks" across the screen rows. It ALSO, however, has an SNES game buried underneath. As in, it actually completely hijacks the console and at that point it's treated like any other SNES game cartridge, leaving SGB mode behind.
As far as I am aware, this is the only game to ever do any such thing. The Super Game Boy was a weird accessory that had a ton of potential and this is arguably the coolest thing you could do with it, but unfortunately not only is this the only game to do it, it's a fairly unremarkable port of one of the earliest arcade games. The SNES side of the cart is definitely much more faithful to the original arcade game (in fact, a casual player probably won't even notice a difference), but at the end of the day it's still Space Invaders. There's only so much you can do with it.
For this video I showed off the Game Boy side of things, then I showed the SNES side. I tried to showcase every offered mode and played multiple games on each...I'll confess, I'm not very good at Space Invaders so apologies that I never got particularly far. Oh well, you're seeing what you need to see anyway.
That's about all I have to say. Enjoy!
NOTE: There is an editing error in this video where some text comes up about four seconds later than it's supposed to. My bad. Sorry about that.
The most remarkable feat ever achieved on the Super Game Boy on the absolute most unassuming game.
So, this isn't like what I usually upload, but it's something I just had to preserve on this site. It's not properly showcased in most videos in its raw form, which I guess is a bit reasonable considering it is annoyingly convoluted and painful to set up in an emulator for little gain. So, what is this exactly?
Back during the Game Boy's heyday, you saw plenty of arcade conversions to offer an option for playing arcade classics on the go. These are usually nothing more than novelties these days considering there are tons of much better ways to play these games on the road and they probably wouldn't be your first choice anyway. There was also an accessory released for the Super Nintendo that allowed one to play Game Boy games on the TV, complete with selectable color palettes and a border. Some games took advantage of the features of this accessory by having special pre-programmed palettes that could even color specific areas of the screen differently from others, giving a better illusion of true color rather than just a gradient of one color over a monochrome image.
And then there's this game.
Okay, so it has enhancements as expected, including a custom border and several extra modes that only apply on an SGB that mimic different versions of the arcade cabinet -- you can pick true black and white, or mimic one of the two ways the original game achieved "color" by adding horizontal "masks" across the screen rows. It ALSO, however, has an SNES game buried underneath. As in, it actually completely hijacks the console and at that point it's treated like any other SNES game cartridge, leaving SGB mode behind.
As far as I am aware, this is the only game to ever do any such thing. The Super Game Boy was a weird accessory that had a ton of potential and this is arguably the coolest thing you could do with it, but unfortunately not only is this the only game to do it, it's a fairly unremarkable port of one of the earliest arcade games. The SNES side of the cart is definitely much more faithful to the original arcade game (in fact, a casual player probably won't even notice a difference), but at the end of the day it's still Space Invaders. There's only so much you can do with it.
For this video I showed off the Game Boy side of things, then I showed the SNES side. I tried to showcase every offered mode and played multiple games on each...I'll confess, I'm not very good at Space Invaders so apologies that I never got particularly far. Oh well, you're seeing what you need to see anyway.
That's about all I have to say. Enjoy!
