Mother 1+2: Mother 1 Color Restoration is a patch for the Game Boy Advance version of Mother 1+2 that enhances the color palette of Mother 1 to closely resemble its original NES appearance. This restoration addresses the washed-out colors typical of GBA titles, allowing players to experience a more authentic visual presentation. The patch includes various options and can be used alongside translation patches.
As some of you may know, a lot of GBA games have brightened, washed out colors in order to make it easier to see on an unlit GBA. This is a patch for *Mother 1+2* for GBA that restores the colors back to what they were on NES (for Mother 1 only, the Mother 2 side of the ROM is untouched).
Several patches were made because there are no true NES colors due to the way it handles colors. NES games don't have any palette data, they just have 'color assignments' choosing from the NES's 64 different color 'slots'. But the way these colors appear can be different from one TV to another, whether it's between NTSC and PAL, or RF/AV cables... so really there are no 'true' NES palettes. That is why several patches were made, one that looks very close to an NTSC signal (palette called "Smooth(FBX) by FirebrandX), one based off the color palette that Nintendo uses for their NES Virtual Console titles, and another based off the palette used by the NES Classic Edition.
These patches can be used in conjunction to any of the translation patches out there. You can patch it to a clean ROM (which means you'll play it in Japanese), or you can patch it to an already-patched translated ROM, either way it doesn't matter, as the only data these patches touch is the 64 colors that the game uses as its palette data.
There are also included patches to allow the game to boot straight to Mother 1, and another to remove the splash screen if you're already using Mato's translation patch (the purpose being to create a standalone Mother 1 for GBA, as Mato's splash screen references Mother 2 hacking which would be irrelevant in this case)
All of these patches are for Mother 1+2(GBA).
These patches can be used even if you have already
applied a translation patch.
======== PATCHES ========
1. "M1 Color Restoration - Smooth(FBX).ips" (RECOMMENDED)
-makes color palette look like the accurate one
made by FirebrandX,who went through great efforts
to reverse-engineer an accurate NES palette.
2. "M1 Color Restoration - NES Classic.ips"
-makes color palette look like the one used
by the NES Classic Edition.
3. "M1 Color Restoration - VC Official.ips"
-makes color palette look like the one that Nintendo
uses on their Virtual Console releases for NES
games on Wii and Wii U.
4. "BootToM1.ips"
-the game will immediately boot to Mother 1,
and will skip the 'choose game' menu entirely.
It essentially turns "Mother 1+2" into just "Mother 1".
5. "SkipSplashScreen.ips"
-ONLY USE THIS PATCH IF YOU HAVE ALREADY APPLIED
MATO'S TRANSLATION PATCH. What this patch does
is it removes the splash info screen from Mato's
translation patch.
CHANGELOG
v2.0 - July 6th, 2019
- replaces NTSC patch with Smooth(FBX) patch
(both colors palettes were extracted by FirebrandX,
but the new palette is the finalized version)
- "VC Brightened" patch removed because it's redundant
- NES Classic patch added
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