diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 679f9edad..707aa9367 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Bugfixes:
  - GB Memory: Initialize peripheral pointers
  - GB MBC: Fix SRAM sizes 4 and 5
  - GB Video: Fix 16-bit screenshots (fixes mgba.io/i/826)
+ - GB Core: Fix palette loading when loading a foreign config
 Misc:
  - GBA Timer: Use global cycles for timers
  - GBA: Extend oddly-sized ROMs to full address space (fixes mgba.io/i/722)
diff --git a/src/gb/core.c b/src/gb/core.c
index db12ec457..2e50324df 100644
--- a/src/gb/core.c
+++ b/src/gb/core.c
@@ -167,17 +167,17 @@ static void _GBCoreLoadConfig(struct mCore* core, const struct mCoreConfig* conf
 	gb->video.frameskip = core->opts.frameskip;
 
 	int color;
-	if (mCoreConfigGetIntValue(&core->config, "gb.pal[0]", &color)) {
-			GBVideoSetPalette(&gb->video, 0, color);
+	if (mCoreConfigGetIntValue(config, "gb.pal[0]", &color)) {
+		GBVideoSetPalette(&gb->video, 0, color);
 	}
-	if (mCoreConfigGetIntValue(&core->config, "gb.pal[1]", &color)) {
-			GBVideoSetPalette(&gb->video, 1, color);
+	if (mCoreConfigGetIntValue(config, "gb.pal[1]", &color)) {
+		GBVideoSetPalette(&gb->video, 1, color);
 	}
-	if (mCoreConfigGetIntValue(&core->config, "gb.pal[2]", &color)) {
-			GBVideoSetPalette(&gb->video, 2, color);
+	if (mCoreConfigGetIntValue(config, "gb.pal[2]", &color)) {
+		GBVideoSetPalette(&gb->video, 2, color);
 	}
-	if (mCoreConfigGetIntValue(&core->config, "gb.pal[3]", &color)) {
-			GBVideoSetPalette(&gb->video, 3, color);
+	if (mCoreConfigGetIntValue(config, "gb.pal[3]", &color)) {
+		GBVideoSetPalette(&gb->video, 3, color);
 	}
 
 	mCoreConfigCopyValue(&core->config, config, "gb.bios");