What are the real Game Boy Pocket "colors"?

[gdkchan]

Ok so this mean the GB(P) use the most black, the most white, the first grey is "1/3 white" and the second second one "2/3 white". Thanks!

First off, just to be clear you probably mean RGB; in French it's rouge, vert, and bleu, in English it's red, green, and blue.

Oh, yes, sorry. ^^

Well, it does have 4 colors, but those colors are not well defined. The first gameboy had a green-ish screen, and also lacked any sort of backlight, so all colors looked like some shade of dark green/black. The GameBoy Color on the other hand, had a colored screen, and when playing the classic GameBoy games on it, switching between different palettes was possible by pressing a button combo at boot. On the Super GameBoy (that allows playing GameBoy games on the Super Nintendo), it would choose the most appropriate colors based on the game. Current emulators will let you configure whatever you want, but they usually use the Super GameBoy colors when possible.

So, what are the real GameBoy Colors? That's a good question. I think for sprite ripping purposes, 0/3, 1/3, 2/3 and 3/3 of white is fine.