Grand Theft Auto 2 (GBC)

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Grand Theft Auto 2
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Platform: Game Boy Color
Year: 2000
Developer: Tarantula Studios
This page is for the Nintendo Game Boy Color version. For other games in the series, see Grand Theft Auto.

Grand Theft Auto 2 is the second official demake, developed by Tarantula Studios and published by Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive without release in Japan for Game Boy Color in 2000.

This port suffered many changes in its version for Windows and PlayStation as it had to adapt everything offered by the Game Boy Color, it would suffer a change in the color palette, audio and music, textures and 3D rendering to a 2D-Isometric one.

It would still have the same basic story, changed to select more characters (not as originally with the protagonist Claude Speed) and with numerous changes for more immersive gameplay and substantially improved to simpler controls, although there was still the limitation of the lack of more buttons.

These versions were well received by gamers, and critics almost labeled them as mediocre, but they were still considered good versions despite the fact that many aspects of them were not playable and did not stand out as a particularly good port.

These two Game Boy Color iterations were re-released for mobile devices running the Java 2ME system, but it was another company that worked to make them commercially successful for this type of hardware.

Screenshots

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Title screen.

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Choose Player.

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City.

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Gameplay 1.

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Gameplay 2.

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Gameplay 3.

Music

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Anthony Patton will once again be in charge of the soundtrack for this edition and even being the musical arranger, who will compose everything from scratch to adapt it to the portable console chip and adapt it to the chiptune system.

It will be the sound quality that it can offer to the maximum and exaggerated compared to the last version with only 10 tracks, which is technically inferior. The soundtrack breaks up into songs when you get into the vehicle where it starts mixing (same as Grand Theft Auto (GBC)).

Recording

# Title ComposerArranger Length Listen Download
01 Title Theme Anthony PatonAnthony Paton 0:38
Download
02 Insert password (Blue Suede Shoes) Elvis PresleyAnthony Paton 1:26
Download
03 Select character (Chega de Saudades) Antônio Carlos JobimAnthony Paton 4:33
Download
04 Town screen Anthony PatonAnthony Paton 1:36
Download
05 Pause menu Anthony PatonAnthony Paton 0:40
Download
06 Stats & Ending Anthony PatonAnthony Paton 1:42
Download
07 Car Song 1 Anthony PatonAnthony Paton 1:09
Download
08 Car Song 2 Anthony PatonAnthony Paton 1:38
Download
09 Car Song 3 (Black in Back) AC/DCAnthony Paton 1:05
Download
10 Car Song 4 (I Feel Good) James BrownAnthony Paton 0:55
Download
11 Car Song 5 Anthony PatonAnthony Paton 0:52
Download
12 Car Song 6 Anthony PatonAnthony Paton 0:48
Download
13 Car Song 7 (Bad) Michael JacksonAnthony Paton 0:49
Download
14 Car Song 8 Anthony PatonAnthony Paton 1:05
Download
15 Car Song 9 (Le Freak) ChicAnthony Paton 1:03
Download
16 Car Song 10 Anthony PatonAnthony Paton 0:47
Download
17 Killed! Anthony PatonAnthony Paton 0:01
Download

Credits

(Sources: Game, Manual)

The game has credits both in the game and in the manual. However, the method of accessing the credits was unknown, and it took hackers almost 20 years after the game's release to figure out the simple method to access the credits; simply do a soft reset on the title screen (holding A, B, Start, and Select). Then, when the game boots up, the credits will display.

These recordings were made by GatoVerde95 using foobar2000 and Game Audio Encoder to FLAC file audio.

Game Rip

Format

Download

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N/A


Audio Devices

The DMG-CPU B chip is the one that does the job of playing the melodies.

Releases

  Canada.svg   Canada
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Title: Grand Theft Auto 2
Platform: Game Boy Color
Released: 2000-12-25
Publisher: Rockstar Games
  USA.svg   USA
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Title: Grand Theft Auto 2
Platform: Game Boy Color
Released: 2000-12-25
Publisher: Rockstar Games
  UK.svg   UK
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Title: Grand Theft Auto 2
Platform: Game Boy Color
Released: 2000-11-10
Publisher: Take-Two Interactive Software, Ltd.
  Scotland.svg   Scotland
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Title: Grand Theft Auto 2
Platform: Game Boy Color
Released: 2000-11-10
Publisher: Take-Two Interactive Software, Ltd.
  Spain.svg   Spain
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Title: Grand Theft Auto 2
Platform: Game Boy Color
Released: 2000-11-10
Publisher: Take-Two Interactive Software, Ltd.
  Italy.svg   Italy
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Title: Grand Theft Auto 2
Platform: Game Boy Color
Released: 2000-11-10
Publisher: Take-Two Interactive Software, Ltd.
  France.svg   France
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Title: Grand Theft Auto 2
Platform: Game Boy Color
Released: 2000-11-10
Publisher: Take-Two Interactive Software, Ltd.
  Luxembourg.svg   Luxembourg
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Title: Grand Theft Auto 2
Platform: Game Boy Color
Released: 2000-11-10
Publisher: Take-Two Interactive Software, PbH.
  Germany.svg   Germany
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Title: Grand Theft Auto 2
Platform: Game Boy Color
Released: 2000-11-10
Publisher: Take-Two Interactive Software GmbH.
  Australia.svg   Australia
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Title: Grand Theft Auto 2
Platform: Game Boy Color
Released: 2000-??-??
Publisher: Take-Two Interactive Software, Ltd.
  New Zealand.svg   New Zealand
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Title: Grand Theft Auto 2
Platform: Game Boy Color
Released: 2000-??-??
Publisher: Take-Two Interactive Software, Ltd.

Links

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