Pokemon Yellow for GBC?

[Zing]

I have Pokemon Yellow. It is the "Game Boy" edition. While browsing VGRebirth (http://vgrebirth.org) I noticed an entry for the "Game Boy Color" edition. I have never seen this in real life and I see no listings for it on Ebay. The best I can find are random gifs of the box, but nothing that shows the actual game.

Was there a specific Game Boy Color release of this game?

 

[whoknows]

I'm pretty sure no. If there was, I'm like you and never heard of it. And since it's a Pokemon game I don't think that's possible.

 

[Zing]

A little more digging and it appears that Nintendo had a later run of this game and they put it in a "Game Boy Color" box. It is still just a plain Game Boy game, but I assume at that point, only the GBC was available.

 

[whoknows]

Makes sense. The game was sort of in between being in color and not, wasn't it?

 

[62t]

it is still a game boy game but there are more colors if you play it in a gameboy color

 

[eastshore4]

I heard when you play it on a sega saturn, it's in 3D!

 

[sippycupz]

I heard if you stick it into the top slot of Sonic & Knuckles you can use Sonic & Knuckles in Pokemon battles

 

[Halo05]

Well this got out of hand quickly.

In a sort of related question, I realize that regular GB and GBC games use batteries for their saves and that said batteries die after a number of years. What's the deal with N64 and GBA games? Do they use batteries or flash memory for save games?

 

[Zing]

It seems like it varies from game to game. Most N64 games use battery. Almost all GBA games use flash.

 

[Halo05]

Hmm... bummer, I was hoping it was an across the board thing. Simpler and all that.

 

[Zing]

Well, my NES game batteries were still working perfectly fine after 15 years (until I sold my collection), so I hope the few GBA games which do use batteries have equal power.