diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 1cca99040..1545fbd30 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 Features:
  - New unlicensed GB mappers: NT (older types 1 and 2), Li Cheng, GGB-81
  - Debugger: Add range watchpoints
+Emulation fixes:
+ - GB Serialize: Don't write BGP/OBP when loading SCGB state (fixes mgba.io/i/2694)
 Other fixes:
  - Qt: Manually split filename to avoid overzealous splitting (fixes mgba.io/i/2681)
  - Qt: Expand criteria for tag branch names (fixes mgba.io/i/2679)
diff --git a/src/gb/io.c b/src/gb/io.c
index c6ad66c36..06a7927cd 100644
--- a/src/gb/io.c
+++ b/src/gb/io.c
@@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ void GBIODeserialize(struct GB* gb, const struct GBSerializedState* state) {
 	gb->video.renderer->writeVideoRegister(gb->video.renderer, GB_REG_SCX, state->io[GB_REG_SCX]);
 	gb->video.renderer->writeVideoRegister(gb->video.renderer, GB_REG_WY, state->io[GB_REG_WY]);
 	gb->video.renderer->writeVideoRegister(gb->video.renderer, GB_REG_WX, state->io[GB_REG_WX]);
-	if (gb->model & GB_MODEL_SGB) {
+	if (gb->model == GB_MODEL_SGB) {
 		gb->video.renderer->writeVideoRegister(gb->video.renderer, GB_REG_BGP, state->io[GB_REG_BGP]);
 		gb->video.renderer->writeVideoRegister(gb->video.renderer, GB_REG_OBP0, state->io[GB_REG_OBP0]);
 		gb->video.renderer->writeVideoRegister(gb->video.renderer, GB_REG_OBP1, state->io[GB_REG_OBP1]);