Korean Pokémon Gold/Silver is GBC only

[IIMarckus]

Sound-wise, VBA-M is far more accurate than any other version of VBA (at least for GB and GBC games). I've tried plenty of GB/GBC games on VBA-M and other versions of VBA and every time, VBA-M sounds far closer to the real hardware. While I don't own any Japanese Pokémon cartridges, I'd be very surprised if it didn't sound like that on real hardware.

VBA‐M is probably the most accurate version of VBA, but its emulation is still not very accurate. I believe that both Gambatte and BGB use Blargg’s sound core, which is very accurate. They are probably better emulators to trust when it comes to accurate sound emulation (or really, accurate emulation in general).

[Raven Freak]

I've always wondered why the boxart said Gameboy Color... :V It makes sense though, since they got the game in 2002.

[Torchickens]

I've always wondered why the boxart said Gameboy Color... :V It makes sense though, since they got the game in 2002.

Laternenschein from TCRF says that "the Korean version uses the Game Boy Color's second bank of VRAM for printing its text, rendering it incompatible with the regular Game Boy."

Surprisingly, there were still some licensed DMG games released in 2002. From TV Animation - One Piece: Maboroshi no Grand Line Boukenki! was apparently the last DMG game, released in June 2002, where as Doraemon no Study Boy : Kanji Yomikaki Master (released in July 2003!) was the last licensed Game Boy Color game ever.

[JacobGRocks]

It's not unusual for games to be released late in a system's lifespan, the PS2 still gets new sports games, the Xbox got Madden 09 in 08, well after devs stopped making multiplats for it, and the PS1 got games made until 2004 and production finally stopped in 2006.

[Torchickens]

It's not unusual for games to be released late in a system's lifespan, the PS2 still gets new sports games, the Xbox got Madden 09 in 08, well after devs stopped making multiplats for it, and the PS1 got games made until 2004 and production finally stopped in 2006.

Good point. I suppose it depends on how Nintendo defines how 'late' it is. Nintendo still continued support for the Game Boy Color, with the Nintendo Power service being discontinued as late as 2007, and Nintendo of America offering to replace the internal clock batteries in Game Boy/Color games (I believe) until relatively recently.

When it got to around late 2001, I don't think that Nintendo was very keen about publishing any more games, only licensing them and the last Nintendo published Game Boy Color game was Mobile Golf, developed by second party company Camelot released in May 2001, not including localizations of existing games. Gimmick Land (Tomato Adventure) and Densetsu no Starfy for the Game Boy Color developed by second-party developers (AlphaDream and TOSE) were still under development in late 2001, and they were postponed and moved to the Game Boy Advance because Nintendo claimed that the Game Boy Color was 'soon going to be obsolete'.

Incidentally, Nintendo wanted to make a successor to the upcoming Game Boy Color and before the announcement of the Game Boy Advance.  It was actually in development since 1995, but the project stopped in 1996. Maybe it was the so called "Project Atlantis" project mentioned in Total! and Game Informer.