My only real gripe about the emulation here, aside from the limited game selection, is that you can't choose the palette that the Game Boy Color mode applies to old Game Boy games. For people bothered by the gray pattern displayed to the left and the right of the game in these Switch emulators, it is unfortunately still here and still something that can't be disabled. The Game Boy's screen was 144 pixels tall, exactly one-fifth the height of the Switch's 720p screen. If you disable the onscreen in-game controls (which I recommend in all of these emulators to maximize usable screen space), the emulated Game Boy's screen stretches all the way from the top to the bottom of the Switch's screen in handheld mode. Note that only original Game Boy games can access all three of these panel options Game Boy Color games, even ones that would play in an original Game Boy or Game Boy Pocket, can only be launched in Game Boy Color mode.

Nintendo's emulator gives you three different screen options: one that simulates the look of the original pea soup-green Game Boy, one that's more like the black-and-white Game Boy Pocket, and one that makes the game act as it would if played in a Game Boy Color. But it's the Settings menu that we're most interested in. Zip over to the menu on the left to switch between single-player and offline and online multiplayer modes. The user interfaces for both apps will be familiar to you if you've used any of these other first-party emulation apps on the Switch: a screen full of games (not very full at this point per usual, the selection is limited at launch and will slowly expand over time) in a customizable grid.

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