I have been trying to determine which of the original Gameboy games the Gameboy Color supports by using custom palettes. Not only do all of Nintendo's developed games have support, a few games from second or third parties also saw some support on the device. I believe that all have some kind of Nintendo connection. Since MESS supports using the officially and recently dumped Gameboy Color Boot ROM, I used it to identify what I believe are almost all the Gameboy games that use custom palettes on the Gameboy Color.
Since some of these games have multiple versions, I believe the Gameboy Color determines whether it supports a Gameboy game by checking the game's name in the cartridge header. Since there are no human-readable ASCII strings in the dumped boot ROM, I would guess that the ROM generates a checksum and compares it with a table contained within it and if a match occurs, then it sets a custom palette. I have counted 54 games with support, and at 2.25 bytes, there little likelihood that the actual game names could be stored within the ROM.
http://www.fpgb.org/?page_id=17 contains all the information anyone would need to find out whether the GBC supports more than the 54 games I have discovered. Here are the games I have found:
The Gameboy Camera also probably has a custom color scheme, but I have no way to test that.
Since some of these games have multiple versions, I believe the Gameboy Color determines whether it supports a Gameboy game by checking the game's name in the cartridge header. Since there are no human-readable ASCII strings in the dumped boot ROM, I would guess that the ROM generates a checksum and compares it with a table contained within it and if a match occurs, then it sets a custom palette. I have counted 54 games with support, and at 2.25 bytes, there little likelihood that the actual game names could be stored within the ROM.
http://www.fpgb.org/?page_id=17 contains all the information anyone would need to find out whether the GBC supports more than the 54 games I have discovered. Here are the games I have found:
- Adventures of Lolo
Alleyway
Asteroids / Missile Command
Balloon Kid
Baseball
Battle Arena Toshinden
Defender / Joust
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Land
Donkey Kong Land 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
Donkey Kong Land 3
Dr. Mario
F-1 Race
For the Frog the Bell Tolls (Kaeruno Tameni)
Galaga / Galaxian
Gameboy Gallery
Gameboy Wars
Game & Watch Gallery
Game & Watch Gallery 2
Golf
James Bond 007
Kid Icarus – Of Myths and Monsters
Killer Instinct
King of Fighters '95
Kirby's Block Ball
Kirby's Dream Land
Kirby's Dream Land 2
Kirby's Pinball Land
Kirby's Star Stacker
Mario's Picross
Mario's Picross 2
Metroid II: Return of Samus
Mole Mania
Nintendo World Cup
Play Action Football
Pocket Monsters Blue
Pocket Monsters Green
Pocket Monsters Red
Pocket Monsters Pikachu
Pokemon Blue
Pokemon Red
Qix
Radar Mission
Solar Striker
Space Invaders
Star Wars
Street Fighter II
Super Mario Land
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
Super R.C. Pro-Am Racing
Tennis
Tetris
Tetris 2
Tetris Attack
Tetris Blast
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Top Rank Tennis
Vegas Stakes
Wario Land 2
Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3
Wave Race
X
Yakuman
Yoshi
Yoshi's Cookie
The Gameboy Camera also probably has a custom color scheme, but I have no way to test that.