Gameboy Development Forum

The next Toshio Iwai then.. hahah

Welcome to the forum, hat!

Hello everyone !
I'm zombectro, I'm French and I use gameboy to create music with nanoloop, lsdj and some
others... I'm also a circuit bending beginner (only anti-theory skills).

I don't know anything about development on gameboy
or development in general... but I have many ideas/dreams for music tools
on game boy !
Ho and I love making pixel art too, so if you need some tiles
for future games, you can ask me ^^

And like I say in all internationals forums : "sorry for my crappy English"

\m/(^_^)\m/

Welcome, welcome!

<- Is that shiny enough?

Shiny wrote:

I've never done any sort of hardware modding myself as I'm more of a lazy software kind of guy who doesn't ever finish anything (a terrible curse ).

Whew, I thought I was the only guy like that. <_<

Hi folks!

It just struck me the other day - man, I have to write a Gameboy emulator! Yeah, I know there are thousands of them already... But then, I haven't written an emulator before. For the moment, I'm searching the internetz for various GB/Z80/whatever docs and resources. And so I just happened to stumble across this forum, and just happened to create an account.

And here I am. Cool, huh?

Welcome hexdriver. I have in fact written an emulator even if it was terribly incomplete. (About 35% of the opcodes were emulated and no graphics, no sound) I'll see if I can find the source code for it.

Java. But since it's so incomplete, it uses almost no features of the language. The code could probably be easily converted to C to have a starting point.
SDL is an ok library, and it is cross-platform. But don't expect the code to be easily portable to GBA. To do that you almost need to code the emu in ASM. That's how tight it is.

Hi, my name is as you figured is Lamarre, I don't have any big background in programming and even less in electronic. I made a little VB, a little PHP (and everything that goes with it, javascript, html, ...) and a little of C/C++.  I'll take programming courses next year...

Favorite game : Zelda (Link's awakening)

ie add extra I/O, perhaps in-hardware MIDI I/O (My own little wet dream wink )

Happy to see we got the same dream...

P.S. I'm from Qc, Canada. So I also speak french...

Welcome, Entity! Please join the IRC channel as well. (#gbdev @ EFNet)

Hi.  I'm a semi-active member of 8bc, so you might have seem my name before if you visit that site.  In July (or sooner) I'll be working on a game boy rom release of music / visuals by myself and ultrasyd (if all goes well).  I will probably have a lot of questions for the experienced members of this forum!  I want to develop entirely in assembly.  I plan on using carillon or paragon 5 to compose the music for the rom.  Any opinion on that would be interesting.  I'm not opposed to using mml if that is the best way.  I am not entirely new to software programming but it has been a while.  I definitely never programmed assembly before.  But I'm excited to be doing this.

cool, i will when the time comes, thank you for the advice

Ahoy and greetynx from Germany! My name is Akareyon in most places of the internet. I've been programming Basic 2.0 on the C64, some assembly even (those were the days!), I know a few words in PHP and JavaScript, started making music a few years ago, then ended up throwing sounds together using the GB Camera DJ and a Korg Kaossilator on the Boss MicroBR (now, that's a studio to take out into the green) and bending a circuit here and there. Got no money for fancy stuff like LSDj and Nanoloop, and they're hard to come by anyways, so here I am, learning some C to make your GameBoys blast your ears :-)

(Honestly, can't wait to compile my first "Hello World", been digging through the GBZ80 register documentation for the past 2 days, muttering evil curses under my breath at every 404 page I encountered googling them and crying tears of joy when I finally found this forum - yay :-)