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DU0 wrote:

- How do I put more maps into my game? The tutorial just tells you how to modify the one that's already there.

Duplicate the map file and before doing anything go to Export To and change the filename and the Label. If you export it now it will create the .h and .c in the res/src folder. If you want to load this map use InitScroll in StateGame.c with this map instead of the one in the tutorial (called map)

DU0 wrote:

- That being done, how do I change scenes? Where do I declare them?

You don't change scenes, you change states. The easiest way to move from one map to another is to Reload the state Game using SetState and then loading a new map based on some global var

DU0 wrote:

- Not sure if that this has anything to do with the engine itself, but how do I make a save point?

I haven't donde that yet... I wouldn't worry too much about this until I had a game running

DU0 wrote:

- Finally, is it possible to make a ROM that'll have colors but still work fine on DMG? Or should I just compile two ROMs, one for each system?

I know it is posible, because there were commercial games that will run in both systems but right now color feature hasn't been added yet. I am currently merging the changes from Mills to get this working. Again, start with something easier, don't worry about colors yet

DU0 wrote:

Also, sorry if I'm spamming or something, but I'm just really excited with being able to do stuff on the Game Boy :3

I'm really excited to see it

DU0 wrote:

So, I've pretty much finished the tutorial (I skipped the music part because I'm still figuring that out). However, there are a couple of things that are still not clear to me:

- How do I put more maps into my game? The tutorial just tells you how to modify the one that's already there.

- That being done, how do I change scenes? Where do I declare them?

- Not sure if that this has anything to do with the engine itself, but how do I make a save point?

- Finally, is it possible to make a ROM that'll have colors but still work fine on DMG? Or should I just compile two ROMs, one for each system?


Also, sorry if I'm spamming or something, but I'm just really excited with being able to do stuff on the Game Boy :3

To use more maps and scenes, you have to create files for them using the templates, You have to copy the template files and change the names and the functions inside:

src\
    .
    .
    StateNewScene.c

Inside the new file you have to use a new name and include the NewScene.h:

    #include "StateNewScene.h"
    UINT8 bank_NEWSCENE 3
    
    
    void Start_NEWSCENE();
    void Update_NEWSCENE();

Then create the .h, again with its new names   

include\
        .
        .
        StateNewScene.h

    #include "main.h"

    DECLARE_STATE(NEWSCENE);

Also include "StateNewScene.h" in zgbmain.c and INIT_STATE(NEWSCENE);

And declare the newscene in zgbmain.h
   

        
    typedef enum {
        STATE_GAME,
        STATE_NEWSCENE,

        N_STATES
    } STATE;

Create the new maps etc...

resources\src\
            .
            .
            newMap.b3.c

If the compiler complains about undefined things, just be sure you included everything that particular scene needs.

Last edited by Mills (2017-04-12 19:28:39)

I have now done all the chapters up to sounds chapter in the ZGB tutorial I am stuck with the sounds does anyone want to help me ? Finish

NOTE : I skipped the music chapter on ZGB github

@Zal0 can you help me with the sound and music chapter on ZGB original. Please unblock my twitter and you know why I got annoying that because you were right about me being young. I am a kid. and even kids has dreams to make a gameboy games.

and I also apologized to Tom Lukeywood "a cat" for my aggressive behaviour.

Last edited by npzman (2017-05-04 04:29:10)

Zalo wrote:

https://github.com/Zal0/ZGB#game-boy-color


Thanks a lot to Mills for all his work

"Note: It seems that by default BGB doesn't show colors properly, so ensure you have GBC LCD colors disabled inside Options->Graphics"

Don't do this. It's true that the colors that BGB displays aren't the ones that the RGB values say, but that's because the LCD of the GBC is quite bad and this option tries to emulate the real colors that you would see in a GBC. Sometimes, what looks great in your PC looks pretty bad in the real GBC because of this.

npzman wrote:

@AntonioND so do you do use ZGB can you help me

No, I don't use C in the GB, but I check what Zalo does with ZGB.

npzman wrote:

Best places to learn C programming properly before trying to learn to develop on ZGB for gameboy ?

That is a healthy approach to take. C programming is its own entity, and it'll be easier to learn C in isolation than to learn it at the same time as programming the Game Boy. The Game Boy is a fairly simple machine—as compared to modern computers—but it's complex enough that approaching it without an understanding of computer programming in general is an imposing undertaking.

It's been many years since I learned C, but the resource I used, cprogramming.com, still exists. I know you like video tutorials, and these tutorials are text-heavy, but programming is text-heavy in general, so I recommend you make a serious effort to read, re-read, and understand the content of those tutorials.

Also, that site has an incredibly active forum (as I write this, there are 500 people actively using that forum right now, as compared to this forum's 350 registered members total.) This forum is a good resource for asking questions about programming the Game Boy specifically, but as you've noticed it's not the busiest place, and it can take a while for replies to happen, so for questions about general C programming I think you'll have better luck on that site's forum.

to build Color wat needs to be done? I have to do the terminal way sadly as I don't know the build file and how it's made to build roms on Mac OS X's file system and how it's rendered.

I guess I may have to put headache on hold until the Method used for Dr Mario's engine unless I render it out with my own engine.

What's the version I need to download from Releases - 1.1?

Last edited by Alexander the bat (2017-05-24 18:51:13)

@zal0 http://gbdev.gg8.se/forums/viewtopic.php?id=446

please help me with the debug issue ?

Thanks and thanks for the answer

Let's start with the really positive side of your video : you did some montage. Das gud. Das gud.

Now, let me get the hacksaw before starting the review...


...Okay. Done.

Let's start with the silly things :
http://puu.sh/xy0uL/bb6a2e60ed.jpg Awesome desktop bruh
http://puu.sh/xy0wb/4939439f46.jpg IE is retarded AND a resource hog AND it sucks, I recommend you use something else. wink wink Firefox (you even got it installed, what the fuck)
Why tf CUT-pasting to the env vars ? Just doesn't make sense.

These minor things just add to the confusion of the rest of the video. It's just frustrating.
But that's not what makes this actually bad.

Now, the BIGGEST problem is easily the recording. It's incredibly laggy ; I don't know if your recorder sucks or your PC can't bear it, but it's frustrating to watch (and my eyes hurt)
The other BIGGEST problem is extremely simple yet it spans the entire video : nothing happens. I think you should have cut the parts where you download the files.
The whole video is slow : you're always switching directories instead of having several windows open NON-FULLSCREEN ; you never use browser tabs and thus always "go back" (which is especially LONG in the part where "back" only once takes you back to a redirect. PROTIP : right-clicking the button or holding it should spawn a menu allowing you to go further back in history...) ; you NEVER use any keyboard shortcuts (COME ON, DON'T TELL ME YOU DON'T KNOW Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C or Ctrl+V ???).

Then there's the closing : Ever wanted to make your own Game Boy games well now you can with this easy to learn Tutorial series." The sentence feels heavy and dull. Instead, use "Ever wanted to make your own Game Boy games? Well now you can with this easy to learn tutorial series!". Feels more alive, both because stronger punctuation ("!" vs. ".") and shorter sentences instead of a long one.

All in all this video is SLOW and a bit irritating. Then there's another problem : your prompt to watch it isn't a prompt, it's an order. You're forcing us to watch something that isn't enjoyable. OBVIOUSLY you're going to get dislikes !
If you had nicely asked "Could you please give me reviews about this tutorial ? I want to make a part 2 soon." we'd have been nicer, for sure.


Then, you're never going to read this but I'm still typing it because I vainly hope you do. If you do, put "peanut butter" first in your reply, that'll work as a proof. But that "ordering around" is what you ALWAYS do here. It's very unnerving. Furthermore, you always harass people for an answer, even when they don't want to do so - even when they TELL YOU EXPLICITLY they don't want to ! - which is utterly unnerving (because you're completely ignoring the fact that THEY ARE A SENTIENT PERSON with feelings, certainly not vague things that must answer you very kindly).

Last thing :

"What you are all doing to me isn't nice"

Of course it's not. Maybe you're wondering why - I sincerely doubt it, I bet you think we're just a bunch of suckers/meanies/whatever. Thing is : you're the annoying little kid here. You expect us to be polite, tender, kind, comprehensive with everything you do.
That's what parents do. Not strangers on the Internet.
Face it : if you want to obtain something from us, be it the address of rSTAT or BGB's source code, you have to be communicative and polite, because you can always be turned down or simply ignored.

Side note : that's part of learning how to live. I'm trying to help you be a better person. You can always ignore me, though. Your choice.


tl;dr because you're going to skip everything else :
- Your video has a lot of problems that makes it bad
- You're not politely asking to watch
- You act like we have to be nice and all to you
- We don't have to
- You're annoying everybody because we don't answer you immediately
- We have priorities and lives besides connecting here so you may not get answers when you want to
- Thus everybody ignores you because answering you doesn't do anything
- You don't even thank anyone who helped you !

Thing is, first, you completely ignored my post. I know it because there are two words missing from your post.
I don't really feel like paying attention to you anymore because you don't pay any attention to the efforts I put into helping you.

You didn't say the screen recorder was doing its best and the editing software had issues. Also, you published a crappy video, you have no excuses. You could have re-recorded.
Also if you send a hundred emails and get no answer, ask yourself why.

PS : I completely agree with Zal0 on this point. There's no point in talking with you. I'm not blocking you because you didn't spam me yet - but do it and I will not hesitate to block the heck out of you.

Zalo wrote:

npzman wrote:

P.S zal0 is ignoring me even after I sent him a hundred emails

Hi

answer me emails

and check out part 2 here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhM7t-Ehevs


EDIT link fixed and updated

Last edited by npzman (2017-09-14 20:47:04)

ISSOtm wrote:

Checked out.

My reaction ?
https://www.youtube.com/yts/img/meh7-vflGevej7.png
Duss videoh nawt aveilableeeeeeh


(lol for not knowing how to properly copy-paste a URL)

I'm doing a video tutorial for a MS-DOS engine, but no talking, just info on cute text. If the MS-DOS tutorial works, I might do one with zalo's cute engine.

npzman wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHaRJcfxYCQ watch ZGB tutorial please why the hell it got 3 dislike. I am going to make part two soon. I am feeling less motivated since no one trying to respond to it. What you are all doing to me isn't nice

npzman your videos would look better without that anoying... thing... I think you made something to the frames per second of your source video.

If you want to make a good video and your pc is not very fsat, you should record just part of the desktop, and make code small to fit in a little box, then the size of the text will be bigger and it will be easier to read on youtube.

Last edited by Mills (2017-09-17 18:55:04)