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Olive DMG Palette (for that original Game Boy look)

  For years I have been dissatisfied with the available color palettes when playing original DMG Game Boy games on various platforms. None of them seem to capture the true color experience I had playing my Game Boy back when it was new. With custom color palettes now available on the Analogue Pocket, I finally sat down to create my own palette with the goal of recreating my original experience. I looked at many photos of the DMG screen and then averaged and tweaked the color data to arrive at these colors, and I am very happy with the results! Feel free to use my "Olive DMG Palette" for yourself (credit to "The Gamer's Alternative" is appreciated).
  Palette file created 01/09/24 (with default 75% brightness in mind)

Download the palette here:
 mediafire.com/file/fs1sghm45a4ik2t/OliveDMGPalette.pal/file

  Please note that the Game Boy will look more yellowish if you are looking at in under a yellow light bulb or have the contrast wheel at a lower setting. Looking at the screen under cooler light, such as natural light before mid-day will be more greenish.

  Put the .pal file on the SD card in Assets/GB/Common/Palettes,
start your cartridge, press the Analogue button and go to:
Settings/Pocket/Systems/GB/Video/Color Palettes/Load Custom
Choose the OliveDMGPalette file and you're done.

Here is the palette code:

244C40 306657 40856D 8BBD4C
244C40 306657 40856D 8ABD4C
244C40 306657 40856D 8ABD4C
244C40 306657 40856D 8ABD4C
8ABD4C 81 41504742

And here is the website tool I used:
 neotechni.github.io/apgb.html


Samples:



(LCD Display Off [Grid Color] will have to wait for that mode to be supported)



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