GB Romset v1.0 (1157 Games) (No-Intro) (No Duplicates) (No Hacked ROMS) (Extras)

Hello everyone. I always am looking for romsets that are meant to have only a single rom for each game, rather than a lot of different versions of it, but never am able to find them. I finally managed to make a SNES one for myself and uploaded it here. Since I did SNES though, I ended up doing others too, so here is the GB Monochrome one.

So this Romset is meant to be one that does not have any duplicate games in it and it is not for collectors, but for people that want to just get the roms and play, without having 5-6 different versions of the same game. My target is to keep a single game out of all the different releases, meaning that there should be only a single rom for each game.

I have gotten these roms from Emuparadise and thus decided to share them packed all together, rather than each one separate. If you want to play only some games and not download them all, then visit Emuparadise and get them from there.

This Romset is made from the latest No-Intro pack from Emuparadise, slimmed down as much as possible.

I have tried my best to not have duplicate games, but even if I tried my best, I am sure there will be some duplicates left, usually being Japanese Roms or maybe US-EU that have totally different titles. If you find any duplicate game, please do report it in comments.

Keep in mind that there might be games with the same name, that are actually different game or maybe some games might seem missing between English and Japanese Roms, but it is because of name difference between regions.

For example
Mickey Mouse 1 (USA) = Mickey Mouse 2 (Japan)
Mickey Mouse Magic Wand = Mickey Mouse 5 (Japan)
There is no Mickey Mouse 3

Because of the above, the list ended up with 2 Mickey Mouse 1 and Mickey Mouse 2,3 and 5 not being there. Confusing, but what can you do.

Main ROMSet
There are 567 Japanese roms and 590 American/European roms, in the main pack. The priority of the roms I chose is USA, then Europe and finally Japan.

Even if all roms are meant to be clean working roms, there are some rare exceptions. Games marked with Proto (there are 3) are meant to be what you would call Alpha release. Some actually work normally, but others barely can be called games.

Games marked with Beta (there is only 1) are meant to be glitchy.

I have left all Monopoly version in the pack, because I love Monopoly. Every version has a different board, so that to me counts as different "game".

Also, even if I have made a separate folder for Multi-Game Cartridges, I have left some in the main set.

Emulator
Just wanted to point out, that even if VBA-M is the most famous GB-GBC-GBA emulator out there, I have found roms that get stuck with it. If you will use it, make sure to go to Options>GameBoy>Configure and choose for Emulated System > Automatic.

In my opinion there is an even better emulator out there for GB and GBC roms, and that is BGB. Not only it seems to work with all GB-GBC roms, but also it emulates Super Gameboy's border. A lot of roms are enhanced for SGB, so that means you will be able to see the nice boarder, for nostalgia's sake. If you pick up BGB, remember that to get the menu, you have to right click on it, since it is just a plain box. The first thing to do is to go to Options>System>Emulated System and choose SGB+GBC. That way you will get both the nice colors of the GBC and the border of SGB, for at least games that support both. In Options>Graphics>doubler, choose hq2x, which will smooth out the graphics, if of course you want the graphics to be filtered. Finally in Options>GB Color>Scheme you can choose the colors of the GB Monochrome. I like the warm colors of Super Gameboy, but also the greenish ones that remind me of my old GB. But you can choose whatever color scheme you want.

Extra
I have also included some separate extra packs of roms, which are either SNES pirate or hack games and some other oddities. Unlicensed Carts are games that are not licensed and they can be from actually good games to games that feel like crappy. Multi-Game Carts are just collection of other games. I did not put all of them in here, but more like just some I did not think they needed to be in the main Romset. Doraemon no Study Boy, Goukaku Boy and InfoGenius Systems are not really games per se. They are either for studying (in Japanese) or tools, so I decided to keep them out of the main list.

Games List
I have compiled a list of the games in different formats, from normal text, to rtf and two different type of excel formats. The txt and rtf obviously can be read by the default Windows document readers, notepad and wordpad. The txt is simple where the rtf looks like a nice list in boxes, looking like an excel.

The excel ones are for either OpenOffice or Microsoft Office and they have filters to filter out versions and regions.

Frontend
Finally I want to suggest LaunchBox. Launchbox is a frontend for multiple emulators and if anything it is the best I have found out there. It is easy to import games in it's interface, it suggests the best emulator to get when for each console, when you try to add an emulator and it has the best interface I have found. Weirdly, I like the free UI it offers (LaunchBox) and not the paid one that people that buy it can get (BigBox). The LaunchBox UI shows every game in a list with a picture of the cover or a screenshot from in game and that is really nice for me. The paid UI it offers just shows a list and only when you choose the name you can see any pictures of it. It can automatically look into picture databases and download pictures for a lot of the games. You can check the screenshot to see what I mean.