mannn i havent seen a coolbits video in years. if this is what a solo-André catalog will look like then im excited! used to watch these all the time as a kid so glad to see the format has returned :D.
It’s amazing that you brought back Cool Bits Andre Thanks! I cannot wait to see what new easter eggs come next from either New games or old ones on Cool Bits!
You can actually emulate Super Gameboy on some of the emulators that are out there. So its not that its difficult to emulate, its just that Nintendo is lazy, and they like doing the bare minimum nowadays.
So fun fact, Super Game Boy isn't an emulator. It's actually a Game Boy's innards stuck into a SNES cartridge. You can still emulate the SNES part of it, but you'd need to pair that with a GB emulator to be useful. The GB Player for GameCube is the same: a GBA stuffed into a cartridge.
The border with the windows revealing clouds might be paintings instead, and Mario and the other characters coming in and out of it gives off that Super Mario 64 vibe where he also enters and exits out of paintings to go to the levels of the game. Also, there are clouds that resemble the cover of the N64 game, which is Mario flying in the clouds with Peach's Castle in the background.
This is a truly great rundown of all the Cool Bits in Super Game Boy and Super Game Boy 2. I used to love playing with the original, writing down colour codes for how to play each of the games I owned, and I even entered the contest in Nintendo Power. Really glad to see Cool Bits back! Oh, and to everyone reading: Be sure to listen to the end of the video, for there's a cool bit of the NEW Cool Bits theme!
9:13 - Thanks to the Game Link ports, I use TWO Super Game Boy 2s and TWO Super NESes and TWO copies of Tetris, along with an HDMI multiviewer, to play two-player Game Boy Tetris on the big screen, with both players' screens simultaneously visible to everyone. My brother and I run a yearly video game tournament that covers multiple games across multiple generations, and two-player Tetris is a very popular pick!
You can restore the game's default GBC palette from the main menu, as well as change between OG green and GB Pocket monochrome. But yeah, some of the SGB specific palettes would be appreciated.
I discovered the instant screen saver code the day I received the Nintendo Power issue with the credits code since you trigger it the same way except by accidentally pressing L an extra time. ;)
This was my Switch back then. I had so much fun playing Pokemon & many other games that had saved data. The idea to play handheld & then continue on the TV was awesome! I'm glad Nin came back with that idea as it's the best thing they did.
Pokémon was so good for it because it let you save anywhere (except during battle ofc), so switching was easy. I'm a bit disappointed though that no games (that I know) used the custom border functions to show more information. Like, your Pokémon could have been shown there. Or, they could have used the "take over the SNES" function (which was an intended, documented feature!) to present a larger play field, higher quality visuals and sounds, etc. I think only two games did that, but they did it by just having a separate SNES version of the game in them, instead of being a hybrid mode.
I think I accidentally stumbled upon the code for starting the idle animations without waiting because I misremembered how the code to get the SGB credits went. I don't know how many 2-player fighting games for the Game Boy this was true of, but Street Fighter II had the nice feature of letting you play 2-player games without another TV, SNES, or copy of the game. Player 2 just used the second controller. (Though, given that you can't play as Dhalsim, E. Honda, or Vega, I would recommend just getting the SNES version to begin with if you don't plan to play on the go.) But speaking of Street Fighter II, the border would actually change to match the stage you're playing on. No animations, however.
When we least expected it, Cool Bits has returned to us. I always thought the little animations in the Super Game Boy were really neat! Also, I gotta say it, Duff Man made for a great narrator in that Super GB commercial. "In LIVING COLOR! OH YEAH!"
I have a Super Gameboy 2! Works perfectly fine on US consoles. You have to modify the Super Nintendo slightly but if you use a third party console like the super retro trio plus It works fine.
It's also possible to add a link cable port to the original. I don't know why it didn't have one, but my suspicion is they thought the slight speed difference would be a problem. From what I've heard, it's not, but I doubt that's been thoroughly tested.
I wish Nintendo made a Super Game Boy 3, one that played Game Boy Color games with their original color palettes. Link's Awakening DX, Dragon Warrior Monsters, and a host of others all had their own unique borders. Yes, I know we got the Game Boy Player for the GameCube, but it just doesn't have the same magic as the Super Game Boy.
GB Player was kinda rubbish. Added a lot of display lag, didn't look very good, didn't add any cool features except rumble. To use rumble, or even know they were on a GB Player so they could adjust colors, the games had to display its logo in fullscreen for 4 seconds. So games started having essentially an ad delaying every startup.
I'm so glad you covered this because I think a lot of people are unaware of how cool the super game boy alone is just to even play the game boy game on TV all the extra stuff that they added was the icing on a cake. And I never forget when I imported the super Game Boy 2 I said I'm still going to keep my super Game Boy one so I can have those other borders and then I found out that they actually have all the borders from the first one inside of the super Game Boy 2 it was like a match in heaven. so now all I do is get super Game Boy 2 I don't even get the super Game Boy one anymore the only thing I hate is that they never engineered it to play Game Boy Color games I feel like they could have just made it rely on more of the Super Nintendos power to make it play Game Boy Color games from the super Game Boy 2 adapter
@8:17 nintendo had many ufos in mario games for the same reason that everybody had aliens in things at the time. They were super popular in the 80s and even through the 90s after the alien movie and some other pop culture happenings like cow abductions.
The Super Game Boy borders had more effort put into them than the Game Boy and GBA NSO apps... Seriously, how are there no options for borders in the NSO apps? Also, great to see this series come back after... a long hiatus...
I do hope Nintendo adds the Super Game Boy feature on their NSO Game Boy app some day. For the boarder, but also for the games with Super Game Boy features. That would be sweet!
Now look up the Super Game Boy Commander. The credits music gave me a bit of a spook once, as my SNES had a dodgy connector that could make games go haywire if you bumped it. That happened while playing a GB game and the credits music started. I didn't know about the code so I was very confused how a GB game was playing this song!?
If you remember these types of videos as far back as a decade ago, you’re legendary
I remember these videos from my childhood.
Same
I do~
I miss the old intro sound 😪
@@evansweb5934 agreed
mannn i havent seen a coolbits video in years. if this is what a solo-André catalog will look like then im excited! used to watch these all the time as a kid so glad to see the format has returned :D.
THE SERIES IS BACK!
Aw, yeah! The original Switch. Lock-on technology was such a magical rarity.
It’s amazing that you brought back Cool Bits Andre Thanks! I cannot wait to see what new easter eggs come next from either New games or old ones on Cool Bits!
This is what I wish the NSO Game Boy app was. Why won't Nintendo bring back the Super Game Boy? Is it because it's hard to handle that much emulation?
You can actually emulate Super Gameboy on some of the emulators that are out there. So its not that its difficult to emulate, its just that Nintendo is lazy, and they like doing the bare minimum nowadays.
So fun fact, Super Game Boy isn't an emulator. It's actually a Game Boy's innards stuck into a SNES cartridge. You can still emulate the SNES part of it, but you'd need to pair that with a GB emulator to be useful.
The GB Player for GameCube is the same: a GBA stuffed into a cartridge.
@@renakunisaki You mean a disc, not cartridge. The Gamecube uses discs.
@kingbrettpro well you need an attachment, a startup disc and original cartridges. The games do pop in pretty much the same.
@@renakunisakinonono, they mean emulating the Super Nintendo playing the Super Game Boy
The border with the windows revealing clouds might be paintings instead, and Mario and the other characters coming in and out of it gives off that Super Mario 64 vibe where he also enters and exits out of paintings to go to the levels of the game. Also, there are clouds that resemble the cover of the N64 game, which is Mario flying in the clouds with Peach's Castle in the background.
This is a truly great rundown of all the Cool Bits in Super Game Boy and Super Game Boy 2. I used to love playing with the original, writing down colour codes for how to play each of the games I owned, and I even entered the contest in Nintendo Power. Really glad to see Cool Bits back!
Oh, and to everyone reading: Be sure to listen to the end of the video, for there's a cool bit of the NEW Cool Bits theme!
9:13 - Thanks to the Game Link ports, I use TWO Super Game Boy 2s and TWO Super NESes and TWO copies of Tetris, along with an HDMI multiviewer, to play two-player Game Boy Tetris on the big screen, with both players' screens simultaneously visible to everyone. My brother and I run a yearly video game tournament that covers multiple games across multiple generations, and two-player Tetris is a very popular pick!
That sounds like an epic setup! And that tournament sounds like a lot of fun
Nintendo has to offer some form of Super Game Boy. All those Game Boys games for Switch need colors
You can restore the game's default GBC palette from the main menu, as well as change between OG green and GB Pocket monochrome. But yeah, some of the SGB specific palettes would be appreciated.
hearing that music actually made me emotional. glad to see it come back!!
Yep! It came back for this grand return, but if you listen to the end of the video, it's a hint at what's to come!
I discovered the instant screen saver code the day I received the Nintendo Power issue with the credits code since you trigger it the same way except by accidentally pressing L an extra time. ;)
Never thought I’d see this series back :,)… *pure nostalgia.*
Im glad they are bringing this back.
WE ARE SO BACK
I love cute 90s animations like these. So relaxing
Wow i thought this channel would be dead with solo andrew, but turns out he is the one with all the creative juice as proven here
If you know what you’re doing you can apply these Super GameBoy (and Super GameBoy 2) frames to GameBoy games on an Analogue Pocket!!!
Ayyyy this put a smile on my face to see this series return! I haven't watched these in forevah!
This is the type of details that make Nintendo peoducts so unique and fun. Great video, Andre!
COOL BITS RETURNS OMG, GOOD DAYS OF GAMEXPLAIN IS BACK
This was my Switch back then. I had so much fun playing Pokemon & many other games that had saved data. The idea to play handheld & then continue on the TV was awesome!
I'm glad Nin came back with that idea as it's the best thing they did.
Pokémon was so good for it because it let you save anywhere (except during battle ofc), so switching was easy.
I'm a bit disappointed though that no games (that I know) used the custom border functions to show more information. Like, your Pokémon could have been shown there. Or, they could have used the "take over the SNES" function (which was an intended, documented feature!) to present a larger play field, higher quality visuals and sounds, etc. I think only two games did that, but they did it by just having a separate SNES version of the game in them, instead of being a hybrid mode.
Good episode. Until the Switch came out, I still played Super Game Boy pretty regularly.
I grew up with a SGB...but I was today-years-old when I learned of these idle animations. I guess I never paused my games long enough to notice.
I had absolutely no idea these were a thing until now! It's cool to see more Super GameBoy love around here!
This should be added to NSO Game Boy
Really liking the content on the channel recently. Good stuff.
Thank you! So glad you're enjoying it! :)
THE KING HAS RETURNED!! I’ve missed Cool Bits so much!
Yeah, the theater backdrop is my personal favorite as well. It’s the same one I used in my playthrough of Balloon Kid on my channel last year.
This was such a fun video, didn't think I could get so hype over boarders!
We got Cool Bits back before GTA6.
Yeah I Don't really messing around with that joke, But I'm Suprised Cool Bits is officially being revive. : o
🤣
Wow this was _Super Rad!_ It takes Game Boy games and charges them with *_Super Power!_*
Actually really nice animations. It'd be cool if someone released a romhack to the let the animations play while you're actually playing the game.
Oh my god, you completely unlocked memories I forgot I had. I remember all of these!!
HOLY SHIT COOL BITS IS BACK
Cool bits is back after all these years
8:39 - André . . . it's beautiful 😭👏👏
So glad to see the return of Cool Bits! LOVED that series when I was younger! 😊😁💙
Cool that cool bits have returned.
I think I accidentally stumbled upon the code for starting the idle animations without waiting because I misremembered how the code to get the SGB credits went.
I don't know how many 2-player fighting games for the Game Boy this was true of, but Street Fighter II had the nice feature of letting you play 2-player games without another TV, SNES, or copy of the game. Player 2 just used the second controller. (Though, given that you can't play as Dhalsim, E. Honda, or Vega, I would recommend just getting the SNES version to begin with if you don't plan to play on the go.)
But speaking of Street Fighter II, the border would actually change to match the stage you're playing on. No animations, however.
When we least expected it, Cool Bits has returned to us. I always thought the little animations in the Super Game Boy were really neat! Also, I gotta say it, Duff Man made for a great narrator in that Super GB commercial. "In LIVING COLOR! OH YEAH!"
ahahaha that does actually sound like him doesn't it?
super cool format. please make more of it :)
I have a Super Gameboy 2! Works perfectly fine on US consoles. You have to modify the Super Nintendo slightly but if you use a third party console like the super retro trio plus It works fine.
It's also possible to add a link cable port to the original. I don't know why it didn't have one, but my suspicion is they thought the slight speed difference would be a problem. From what I've heard, it's not, but I doubt that's been thoroughly tested.
OMG THE SERIES I KNEW GX FOR MOST 8 years ago IS BACK!!!
I feel like there really should've been a consistently animating border to prevent burn in
I wish Nintendo made a Super Game Boy 3, one that played Game Boy Color games with their original color palettes. Link's Awakening DX, Dragon Warrior Monsters, and a host of others all had their own unique borders. Yes, I know we got the Game Boy Player for the GameCube, but it just doesn't have the same magic as the Super Game Boy.
GB Player was kinda rubbish. Added a lot of display lag, didn't look very good, didn't add any cool features except rumble.
To use rumble, or even know they were on a GB Player so they could adjust colors, the games had to display its logo in fullscreen for 4 seconds. So games started having essentially an ad delaying every startup.
These were indeed cool bits!
Love that Nintendo put in so much effort for something that was only meant to spread joy😆
super nintendo really have a lot charm with the 16bits included this ilde animation
Thanks for bringing this back!!
Well that easily earned a sub...thanks!
I'm so glad you covered this because I think a lot of people are unaware of how cool the super game boy alone is just to even play the game boy game on TV all the extra stuff that they added was the icing on a cake. And I never forget when I imported the super Game Boy 2 I said I'm still going to keep my super Game Boy one so I can have those other borders and then I found out that they actually have all the borders from the first one inside of the super Game Boy 2 it was like a match in heaven. so now all I do is get super Game Boy 2 I don't even get the super Game Boy one anymore the only thing I hate is that they never engineered it to play Game Boy Color games I feel like they could have just made it rely on more of the Super Nintendos power to make it play Game Boy Color games from the super Game Boy 2 adapter
That was a VERY Cool Bit~! ^u^
Those bits were certainly cool!
These “cool bit” videos and “pop fiction” by game trailers were my childhood!!! Well early 20’s hood 🤣
@8:17 nintendo had many ufos in mario games for the same reason that everybody had aliens in things at the time. They were super popular in the 80s and even through the 90s after the alien movie and some other pop culture happenings like cow abductions.
Cool Bits!! Love this series. :)
Omg it’s back finally I’ve been asking this for years
Coolbits is back?! My favorite series from you guys!!
Wow a cool bits episode! Such a throwback! 🎉
This is a Awesome video please make more Cool Bits videos!!!
I can't believe COOL BITS is actually back!!
Looks like we gotta wait another 4 years for the next episode
Gosh I was not expecting them to revive this series.
OMG IT'S ALIVE!
The Super Game Boy borders had more effort put into them than the Game Boy and GBA NSO apps...
Seriously, how are there no options for borders in the NSO apps?
Also, great to see this series come back after... a long hiatus...
30 years an dthis is the first time I know this! :O
He finally did a new cool bits I been telling Andre do it every time I join a stream
I remember watching this series as a kid
COOL BITS IS BACK!
Jesus Christ it’s been SO LONG!!!
Cool Bits
Now that’s a name i’ve not heard in a long long time
Now that is a Cool Bit™️
Cool Bits, thats a name I haven't heard in a LONG time!
Cool bits....now there's a name i haven't heard in a while.
Hasn't Andre done these cool bits before in the past
And when the world needed it most….it returned
I remember playing Super Game Boy a lot when I was a kid it's still brilliant today. 😀👍🎮
Aw yeah we back :o
Nice! Keep them coming!
Ha, these are all very cool. I most certainly didn't know about any of this stuff.
Wish there was a Super GameBoy mode for Switch Online.
this shows even more, that NSO GB App should have Super Gameboy support
I do hope Nintendo adds the Super Game Boy feature on their NSO Game Boy app some day. For the boarder, but also for the games with Super Game Boy features.
That would be sweet!
COOL BITS IS BACK?????
Still got my SGB after a few years. I'll be playing my Operation C on it soon. That and Kirby's Dreamland.
0:00 is the background behind the Mario Bros a level from DK Country 2? Bc it looks like the Jib Jig level.
Close! Donkey Kong Land 2, for the GB!
Perfect Video
The border with the singing clams reminds me of Jellyfish Jam from SpongeBob.
Psst, babe! Wake up, cool bits is back, our marriage is saved!
This is so cool!!
15:50 what song is that? Its so familiar...
Mario Land credits! :) th-cam.com/video/PZL36avKnw8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=FLwdiOjU23GVKgmx
@@GameXplain That was quick, thanks! What a blast from the past lol!
“Latest episode” it’s been like a decade 😭 feels like 2014 again
6:57 since when Mario gets kidnapped that’s crazy
COOL BITS IS BACK???
I MISS THIS SERIES!!!
Cool bits!! Ah!!
I have a case of Mandela Effect… I SWEAR I remember the billboard border having a day night cycle… oh shit! That actually happened!
There's a Super Game Boy 2!? 😲 I'll have to tell my dad! 😃
5:24 Close. It's actually based on Convex and Concave, another work by M. C. Escher.
Now look up the Super Game Boy Commander.
The credits music gave me a bit of a spook once, as my SNES had a dodgy connector that could make games go haywire if you bumped it. That happened while playing a GB game and the credits music started. I didn't know about the code so I was very confused how a GB game was playing this song!?