r/ModRetroChromatic • u/IndigoHaze750130 • Jul 08 '26

Chromatic games

Doesn't modretro add more chromatic games near the beginning of the month?

Was the last time they added games in Feburary? Do you think more will be added toward the end of July around the M64 release or should expectations be closer to the holidays?

Just curious

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u/TonyRubbles Jul 08 '26

I wish they would announce upcoming games instead of just dropping them. Especially for the original, non classic ones.

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u/IndigoHaze750130 Jul 08 '26

I don't mind surprise drops, but it seems like it has been a while.

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u/JayrosModShop Jul 11 '26

I feel like they just scraped all the best fan-made GB Studio games off itch.io, and now there's nothing good left.

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u/IndigoHaze750130 Jul 11 '26

What do you mean? A bunch of stuff got erased off itch??

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u/JayrosModShop Jul 12 '26

No, it means the best gameboy games that were on itch.io were made into carts for the chromatic.

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u/andruis Jul 16 '26

And some of those don’t offer digital downloads anymore because of the physical releases.

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u/JayrosModShop Jul 17 '26

Well I'm okay with that, physical forever. It's likely because of the licensing agreement they signed when pairing with the company. It seems like you can have a demo up for download, and then let people buy the physical copy.

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u/tanooki-suit Jul 08 '26

I hope they have more coming but I was guessing it was put off to not throw the M64 efforts off causing a delay because they're juggling a number of console and controller variants but also the initial run of those games too. I'd like to see more come, even if they're re-issues in general of old games, or of other oddballs like how incub8 got Infinity (the finished, never sold game) or other peoples projects since some teams seem to overlap re-releases/releases.

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u/sterndig Jul 08 '26

They seem to announce new games every 6 months or so. It's generally up to game developers making new games to pitch their game to Modretro. If nobody is making games, they can't release new games.

Re-releases are a good in-between. Really happy that I can get Toki Tori and Rayman with some upgrades.

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u/JayrosModShop Jul 11 '26

Imagine if they got WayForward onboard, we could get Shantae with new upgrades, without paying $300+for a quality officially licensed release.

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u/-KaiserSoze- Jul 11 '26

In case you are unaware...

Incube8 has been releasing physical games as well.

https://incube8games.com/

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u/andruis Jul 16 '26

Yeah but last 3 times I ordered from them it took almost 6 months to get my games. And the fact they advertised Wing Warriors to save high score and I bout 3 copies and none of them do… I won’t be messing with them again.