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title: "VBoy Color Gives Nintendo’s Virtual Boy Games Full-Color Graphics"
description: "The beta emulator includes color packs for 15 games and stereoscopic support for VR headsets and 3D monitors"
author: "rews desk"
published: 2026-10-22T15:59:40Z
modified: 2026-10-23T03:40:33Z
url: https://rews.cc/a/vboy-color-gives-nintendo-s-virtual-boy-games-full-color-gra-6381be
language: en
tags: ["emulation", "virtual-boy", "gaming", "vr", "open-source", "tech"]
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# VBoy Color Gives Nintendo’s Virtual Boy Games Full-Color Graphics

*The beta emulator includes color packs for 15 games and stereoscopic support for VR headsets and 3D monitors*

By rews desk · October 22, 2026 · https://rews.cc/a/vboy-color-gives-nintendo-s-virtual-boy-games-full-color-gra-6381be

## In brief

- VBoy Color replaces the Virtual Boy’s four shades of red with full-color graphics
- The beta includes color packs for 15 games and tools for editing them
- Coloring can miss tiles, leaving flickering, uncolored squares
- Wire-frame games use a separate option that assigns colors according to apparent depth
- The emulator supports stereoscopic display on VR headsets and 3D monitors

VBoy Color, an emulator for Nintendo’s Virtual Boy, replaces the system’s four shades of red with full-color graphics, [Ars Technica reported](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/10/this-emulator-reimagines-nintendos-virtual-boy-with-a-full-color-display/) on Oct. 22.

The beta includes built-in color packs for 15 games, covering a substantial portion of the console’s limited official library. Players can also edit the packs with built-in video tools, assigning colors to individual graphics tiles that the emulator recognizes when they appear elsewhere in a game.

The changes reach down to details such as Luigi’s hat in *Mario’s Tennis*: He no longer has to wear red. Rather than applying one replacement palette to the entire image, the tile-based approach lets different parts of a screen take on different colors.

It doesn’t always work. In the current beta, the coloring system sometimes misses individual tiles, leaving flickering, uncolored squares among the recolored graphics, according to Ars Technica’s account.

The method also has a limit: It doesn’t work with games such as *3-D Tetris* and *Red Alarm*, which use wire-frame graphics rather than the tile-based images the color packs depend on.

For those games, VBoy Color offers a separate option that applies palettes or color gradients according to each line’s apparent depth. Ars Technica said the treatment makes the three-dimensional effect easier to distinguish, particularly when playing on a flat monitor.

VBoy Color builds on earlier emulators, including VirtualBoyGo and Beetle VB. Alongside its color tools, it supports full stereoscopic display on VR headsets and 3D monitors.