Why would you do that? said:
That is true, but playing Yellow, it was very clearly built for the GB. Each town is only one color hue with different shades, and so are all of the Pokemon. It was to the point that the box art didn't even say "Game Boy Color" on it like other GB/C games.
Edit: It was also apparently a feature for only outside of Japan, too.
That's true, Yellow isn't the same kind of GBC game as most GBC games are. That "one color hue" thing sounds like they might have taken the Super Game Boy colors and just put them in as GBC colors, perhaps?
Still, I can't imagine any way that they did it other than having it be a dual-mode game. Perhaps it should have a note saying that it's a much less comprehensive effort than the later ones, colors-wise, but it's got to be a dual-mode game, outside of Japan at least.
I don't know why they didn't put "GBC" on it. They wanted to keep the box looking the same as Red and Blue, perhaps? On a similar note Nintendo left off the Super Game Boy logos from Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, and Silver in the US, despite all of them having SGB support. In Japan the boxes have the SGB logos, but not in the US. Now I know the SGB was evidently more popular there (perhaps because the SNES lasted longer there, and the SGB only came out in 1994), but other games that supported it mostly had the logo on them... the Pokemon games are the main exception. It's just a little odd, and I have no idea why they did it. They definitely did not remove the SGB features from the US releases, just the logo showing that it's supported.
trinest said:
So 3DS it is, and also on the 3DS near the end remakes of Ruby and Sapphire under names like Blood Ruby.
It's possible it could be for the standard DS, but yeah, historically 3DS does seem more likely. We'll see though, but it is true that there haven't been more than five Pokemon versions designed for any one system, and the DS has five now.
