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The Game Boy was released by Nintendo in 1989 thus kicking off the era of handheld gaming and Pokemon.

Emulators: gambatte-libretro, Visual Boy Advance, TGB Dual, BGB, gest, higan, kigb, playguy

es_systems.cfg

 <system>
    <name>gb</name>
    <fullname>Game Boy</fullname>
    <path>~/.emulationstation/roms/gb</path>
    <extension>.gb .GB</extension>
    <command>%HOMEPATH%\.emulationstation\systems\retroarch\retroarch.exe -L %HOMEPATH%\.emulationstation\systems\retroarch\cores\gambatte_libretro.dll "%ROM_RAW%"</command>
    <platform>gb</platform>
    <theme>gb</theme>
  </system>

ROMS

Accepted File Extensions: .gb

Place your Game Boy ROMs in

\.emulationstation\roms\gb

Controls

gameboy

Advanced Configurations

How to Colourise Game Boy games

Open RGUI by pressing select+x or on the keyboard pressing your hotkey+F1 then navigate to options

-Select Core Options

-Change GB Colorization from disabled to enabled (by pressing the right button on your keyboard)

-Then restart the game by selecting load content (history) and choose your game now in colour!