ROM Hacks: Taste the rainbow in Kirby's Dream Land 2 DX!

Started by RHDNBot, April 22, 2023, 09:35:03 AM

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RHDNBot

April 22, 2023, 09:35:03 AM

Update By: kkzero

Kirby's Dream Land 2 was first released in 1995 on the monochrome Game Boy, with very limited coloring if played on the Super Game Boy. The third mainline Kirby game, it allows Kirby to combine forces with three friends--Rick, Coo, or Kine--to expand his arsenal. For many years, it was trapped in the irony of being a game involving rainbows yet actually having minimal color...until now, after over a year of on-and-off hacking work to bring it to the Game Boy Color.

This colorization hack not only colorizes every scene and object in the game, but also adds extra visual effects, removes slowdowns in the original game, and provides a new settings menu with some cosmetic options.

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Ok Impala!

#1
April 22, 2023, 11:07:24 AM
Amazing work! Congrats on this awesome release!  :)
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Jamish

#3
April 22, 2023, 12:14:12 PM
This is outstanding! My favorite Game Boy game has been colorized! I feel like a kid on Christmas.

CharlieF

#4
April 22, 2023, 07:53:53 PM
It is beautiful! I can't wait to play through it again! Thank you!

BillyZard

#5
April 23, 2023, 06:04:55 AM
Amazing! Thank you for your hard work! Can't wait to introduce this to my kids.

Dwedit

#6
April 23, 2023, 07:21:02 AM
How does it handle the dark rooms that the Fish lights up?
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kkzero

#7
April 23, 2023, 09:02:24 AM
Quote from: Dwedit on April 23, 2023, 07:21:02 AMHow does it handle the dark rooms that the Fish lights up?
They work just like they do in vanilla, except they also fade in/out this time. I do recall it took a fair amount of tweaking to get working, as did the screen palette updater in general.

radorn

#8
April 26, 2023, 10:13:11 AM Last Edit: April 26, 2023, 11:28:48 AM by radorn
Looks excellent!

I guess the SGB border feature is lost, begin a GBC program now, right?

EDIT: Nevermind. Ought to read things through first! my bad!

EDIT2: Some SGB games have more than one border, which may be cued in for different levels for example. Does Kirby 2 have those, and will the unofficial SGB+GBC mode allow borders to load at any point, or only the initial one?

mofoofinvention

#9
April 26, 2023, 10:40:40 AM
Has anybody gotten this to work with the Analogue Pocket GB Studio Patch? The first Kirby was easily patchable for .pocket, but for some reason the second one won't patch correctly no matter what order I do it in.

Green Jerry

#10
April 26, 2023, 10:41:04 AM
The hack has passed over 100k downloads in only 5 days, that was very fast!
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kkzero

#11
April 26, 2023, 02:57:46 PM
Quote from: radorn on April 26, 2023, 10:13:11 AMEDIT2: Some SGB games have more than one border, which may be cued in for different levels for example. Does Kirby 2 have those, and will the unofficial SGB+GBC mode allow borders to load at any point, or only the initial one?
Dream Land 2 only has one border. Games that do have more should most definitely load those in SGB+GBC, because that part of the SGB is fully emulated.

Quote from: Green Jerry on April 26, 2023, 10:41:04 AMThe hack has passed over 100k downloads in only 5 days, that was very fast!
Yeah, pretty surreal if you ask me.

radorn

#12
April 26, 2023, 08:05:21 PM
Quote from: kkzero on April 26, 2023, 02:57:46 PMDream Land 2 only has one border. Games that do have more should most definitely load those in SGB+GBC, because that part of the SGB is fully emulated.

Last time I actually played GB was on a DS emu GameYob, I think it was.
It seems the implementation was based on first running in SGB mode until a border was loaded, keep the border on screen and reboot as GBC. The idea being that even if the SGB functions were active, the game internally wouldn't even try using them while running in GBC mode. As a result, only the initial border was displayed.
I always wondered whether it was possible to have SGB functions while running as GBC, or if there was any kind of overlap that would force to choose one or another, since officially they were never meant to work together. Assuming such an arrangement was possible, I imagined existing official software wouldn't readily work with it anyway, and modification would be needed.
I guess your mod counts as one such piece of software, then :)

EvilJagaGenius

#13
April 26, 2023, 10:17:29 PM
I've been busy so haven't had time to type this yet, but: thank you!  KDL1's color hack got me started on the series, looking forward to continuing with this.
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Heaven Piercing Man

#14
April 27, 2023, 03:26:17 AM
Custom boxart anyone, for your emulator frontends?

Here it is in both Japanese and English styles.

 

ToHell

#15
May 01, 2023, 12:05:55 PM
Thank you for this work! I'm going to play through it very soon.

mofoofinvention

#16
May 08, 2023, 12:52:55 PM
Quote from: mofoofinvention on April 26, 2023, 10:40:40 AMHas anybody gotten this to work with the Analogue Pocket GB Studio Patch? The first Kirby was easily patchable for .pocket, but for some reason the second one won't patch correctly no matter what order I do it in.


That patch only worked with the original version. There's a pocket patch available for DX 2 now though.
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