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

Emulator Rom Folder Extension BIOS Controller Config
lr-gambatte gb .gb none /opt/retropie/configs/gb/retroarch.cfg

Emulator: lr-gambatte

lr-gambatte is a libretro port of Gambatte that utilises RetroArch configurations for your controller

ROMS

Accepted File Extensions: .gb

Place your Game Boy ROMs in

/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/gb

Controls

lr-gambatte utilises Retroarch configurations

Add custom retroarch controls to the retroarch.cfg file in

/opt/retropie/configs/gb/retroarch.cfg

For more information on custom RetroArch controls see: RetroArch Configuration

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How to change the color palette

Open the RetroArch RGUI by pressing Select+X on the controller, or Hotkey+F1 on the keyboard then navigate to:

  • Quick Menu
    • Core Options
      • Change GB Colorization to internal by pressing left or right
      • Select an Internal Palette with left and right

Press B to go back to the Quick Menu and Resume Content.

To make the change permanent, choose Save Configuration on the main RGUI menu.

It's also possible to edit /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg and set the palette like:

gambatte_gb_colorization = "internal"
gambatte_gb_internal_palette = "GBC - Grayscale"

The complete list of palettes can be found in the emulator core source:

GBC - Blue
GBC - Brown
GBC - Dark Blue
GBC - Dark Brown
GBC - Dark Green
GBC - Grayscale
GBC - Green
GBC - Inverted
GBC - Orange
GBC - Pastel Mix
GBC - Red
GBC - Yellow
Special 1
Special 2
Special 3

https://github.com/libretro/gambatte-libretro/blob/master/libgambatte/libretro/libretro.cpp