Gameboy Advance Faketro

[padman]

Hi fellas!

Boredom can lead to a lot of things. In my case it lead once again to a completely useless production: to a little fake Gameboy Advance intro. This is my first try on this hardware btw, so be nice
No remake this time so you'll need an emulator to run it! (Yes Little White this time it is a Gameboy prod! )

Anyway, enjoy!

Pad 

P.S.: UGH is my new one man crew. It stands for Untalented Gameboy Hacker(s). Anyone wanna join? 

[ninogenio]

cool stuff,

the game boy advanced is a cool little gadget to code for. can i ask what development kit you used to code this?

me and a few mates did quite a bit of stuff on the gba and we used visual ham its a complete development enviroment and comes with lots of nice wrappers libs and tools.

[padman]

can i ask what development kit you used to code this?

Sure you can. I used the hardcore language for real coders: Dragon Basic 

I guess it's pretty good for games, but not really useful for stuff like this (I mean decent intros of course, not my little just-for-fun prog...). I find it pretty "hard" to code with it nowadays though, since all support sites and forums are gone. And the helpfile doesn't really help either... 

Anyway, maybe I'll write a little game with it, it's fun to code stuff for the GBA. We'll see.

[ninogenio]

ah very cool a basic language for the gba it has been so long since i last coded on the gba i didnt know there was a basic languge for it.

aw well im sure this would be great for the other members of this forum including myself.

so cheers k+

[LittleWhite]

You will laugh (I hope so) but on my GBA emulator VBA-M SVN945 ... it's giving me only white screen ... :s
Will get another emulator ...

Get it working with classical VBA (1.7.2)
Nice little intro is it your music ?

[padman]

Thx mate. Actually it made me laugh that there's even incompatibility issues with gameboy stuff  (Maye I should get a FlashCart to test it on the real hardware first to be on the safe side  ) But Dragon Basic is 6 years old, so it's normal that it loves a classic emulator I reckon...
The music is by Excellence In Art from the Atari ST. I needed a short loopable tune since it's only a WAV file playback... 

[Dr.Death]

Nice going mate 

[Clyde]

Nice Little Tro there Dude!!
I have a GBA ( somewhere over the rainbow o_0 ), it works my end with Virtual Boy no problemo.

[relsoft]

Nice 'tro you got there.  Why not go low level and use devkitPro?  You can code in c/++ with it.  Also you could (more likely) map the VRAM to LCD (ala DS) and access individual pixels like its a chunk of memory.

ie.

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vram[x+y * SCREEN_HEIGHT] = color


[padman]

Thanks for the comments guys! 

@relsoft: I guess that would be probably the better solution, yeah, but it's been ages since the last time I really used C. And to be honest I kinda like Basic.  I think you can plot, peek poke whatever in Dragon Basic too. I just have to understand how it all works first. I'm just a noob when it comes to Gameboy. But I already got a working 3D starfield. Yay!