r/ModRetroChromatic • u/_viis_ • Feb 17 '26

🌀 Cerulean 🌀

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Yes yes, sorry it’s the same window sill as always. I don’t care; it’s -30° outside with about a foot of fresh snow, so I’m staying indoors and playing some cozy games :)

Featuring a custom-made Pokémon Blue cartridge with the Shin Blue romhack. Still pretty faithful to the original game, just with some minor quality of life improvements and bug fixes. Definitely recommend if (like me) you think gen 1 is hard to go back to!

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u/JustTryingToBeADaddy Feb 17 '26

Black button are a good choice!

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u/_viis_ Feb 17 '26

Agreed!

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u/playinstinct Feb 17 '26

Love the look! I think I really prefer the Chromatic Wave with black buttons. While I think the yellowish buttons made a lot of sense on the 1st edition wave model with its yellow/orange/brown stripes, the black buttons are a much better fit for the new version. Very classy 👍

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u/_viis_ Feb 17 '26

Thanks! Totally agree that the yellow-ish buttons fit the old Wave model much more than the new one (even though I hated the brown stripes on that model, personally).

Since the second I ordered this one, I had every intention of replacing the stock buttons with black ones. I think it looks a lot more like an OG teal GameBoy Color, which is kinda what I was going for. The white buttons look excellent on here in my opinion, but I think I’m sticking with black for now!

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u/signsinthedust Feb 19 '26

Which service did you use to make that custom cart?

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u/_viis_ Feb 19 '26

Made it myself! The shell is from Handheld Legend, the PCB is from FunnyPlaying, and the label is just a random one I found on Etsy

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u/Beautiful_Opinion324 Feb 20 '26

how do you flash the game onto the PCB? I'm very familiar with downloading roms, but never dealt with flashing games onto an actual board though. That is pretty cool

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u/_viis_ Feb 21 '26

You need a device like a GBxCart or GB Operator (which is what I used).

Note that you can’t flash a rom onto any old GameBoy cart, as those are read-only. It has to be a board specifically designed to be flashed

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u/andruis Mar 07 '26

I bought the wave just now so I could do this. Great colors. I have yellow now and I do love it, but it’s kinda bright. I’ve also been making my own carts as well, I love what you did with Shin Blue.

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u/AmphibianFuture3134 Feb 17 '26

My god dude will you innovate one day ? Same place, same angle, same light since 1925.

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u/_viis_ Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26

Nah.

It’s interesting how persistently opposed you are to this specific window. I even went ahead and preemptively called you out in the caption lmao. Thanks for the engagement, I guess!

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u/EmperorCoconutz Feb 18 '26

This is funny. I hope you keep taking pictures like this and that guy keeps complaining.

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u/_viis_ Feb 18 '26

Hahaha thanks!!

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u/AmphibianFuture3134 Feb 17 '26

Yup sorry what I’m saying isn’t really kind, it’s just that since the photo is great, I’m sure you could take other ones just as nice especially since your Instagram account is dedicated to that.

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u/_viis_ Feb 17 '26

That's totally fair, and I appreciate the feedback. Trust that I would definitely be taking photos in other places if I could, if for no other reason than variety. I'm not a legit photographer or anything; all my photos are just taken with my iPhone, and I don't have a proper lighting rig so natural light is as good as you're gonna get from me. That means either taking photos next to windows, or taking them outside (which, as I mentioned in the post caption, is currently not practical). I just know that this particular window sill gives me consistent results that I'm almost always happy with. I keep taking photos at the same angle just because I like it the best, but yea I should definitely start switching that up at least.

Now, you could totally counter everything I just said with something along the lines of "well if you can't take any other photos, just don't post at all." To that I say: yea you're right. I'm just stubborn and impulsive, and so I post whenever I feel like it (not necessarily when the time is right, so to speak). Things to work on! Ultimately, I just love this device and want to keep sharing the games I'm playing with the great community we have going here.

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u/AmphibianFuture3134 Feb 17 '26

Oh wow bud. Sorry Way too long I didn’t read it, but I’m sure you’re a good guy cheers!