For reasons no one can fanthom
You’re talking about it, that’s the main reason
It’s obvious right, everyone is talking about this and McDonalds is loving it.
For reasons no one can fathom
The ROM hacking community takes this personally.
ROM hacking and well, just retro development like this is awesome. I think there is something to be said about the creativity that comes with a limited canvas and so on
For the one other person who might be wondering, the game works on CFW as well!
Afaik the DS basically has GBA hardware built in, right? So I don’t see why there was a chance of it not working
Mostly that it was a GBC game being released in 2023 with the website being the assumed location it would be played. I honestly figured it was just a generic file type that was made in the style or with the constraints of the Game Boy Color, not that it was actually a Color game.
I love this so much. I need to break out one of those gameboy studio tools and take a crack at a game of my own.
The music in this game is way better than it needs to be.
Here is some gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK4k5kUj9WA
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If there isn’t a cartridge then it’s just a ROM not a game imo. I know it’s pedantic to specify but it matters when there are people who’ve released modern GB cartridges
It’s a game, just not a cartridge. Just because it’s in a file format doesn’t make it not a game. I’m planning to check it out on my GB Advance SP with an EZ Flash cartridge, so it’ll be playing on actual hardware.
It would be so much cooler if they actually released a cartridge for it.
Wait there aren’t any actual carts for this? Did they just drop a rom file somewhere? Who at McDonald’s came up with this idea and how can we get them a raise!
no its just a download or a site to play it from. No cart. Kinda sad about it, would have been a sick collectable.
My 67 year old mom’s got a new rebuilt and improved Game Boy Colour. She wanted a switch, but dear lord watching her try to operate mine…so I was like hey what about a new Game Boy, there’s people on Etsy that rebuild them. She’s happier than a pig on shit, and I don’t have to answer endless support calls + she’s got a super sized library to work through from my old Game Boy games. Will have to check this out to see if I can get her one of these.
From other comments, it sounds like there are no physical carts.
An Everdrive would probably work and they’re only like $25 for a Chinese one, plus a few bucks for a micro SD. It’s not like you’d need a big one!
I used an everdrive for my megadrive (lol) and it worked flawlessly! I highly recommend they get one of these for their grandmother that is a great idea!
