I have zero coding experience so this may be a more complicated thing to answer or i may be asking this in the wrong place. But where should i start!? Is it possible to just jump right in by reading tutorials and what not or does it take some extra research/experience/knowledge before even getting to gameboy development. Not so much a question on anything in specific just wondering whats needed and out there. Thank you for your time!
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Which model of Gameboy?
For the classics- the GBDK is a good place to start, many examples etc. Check out http://gbdk.sourceforge.net/ ... You'll most likely need a windows machine for compiling, none of us have of yet been able to compile using OSX.
If you don't know anything about programming there is a bit to learn- For learning C I would get this book: http://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Lan … 0131103628 ... but there are quite a few free resources around the web too.
Personally I would dive into C first, and Assembly later.
Then down the road go and look at the pandoc http://nocash.emubase.de/pandocs.htm and possibly http://www.retards.org/library/technolo … sound3.pdf to get a visual understanding of the gameboy sound registers and how they are used.
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I was thinking model wise the original first then color(not sure the difference) but this is exactly what i was looking for thank you. I have a few windows machines so that should be fine. I have always wanted to learn programming and just never had the courage to dive in i guess. Any other online resources for learning C would be great too. Thank you for the response though!
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^that is honestly exactly what i was looking for when it comes to online stuff thank you!
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Sweeeeeeden
That's for assembly language, though, not C. But that's what I recommend you learn anyway.
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trash80 wrote:
You'll most likely need a windows machine for compiling, none of us have of yet been able to compile using OSX.
I can compile just fine in Linux.
There's other OS's y'know ;P
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The Silph Scope wrote:
trash80 wrote:You'll most likely need a windows machine for compiling, none of us have of yet been able to compile using OSX.
I can compile just fine in Linux.
There's other OS's y'know ;P
Yeah, it's extremely painless under Linux. Why are people having trouble with OSX?
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San Francisco
I just know that mountain lion has created alot of issues. pretty much every update breaks something
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Los Angeles
nitro2k01 wrote:
Oh yeah that too, such a good link.
The Silph Scope wrote:
I can compile just fine in Linux.
There's other OS's y'know ;P
Yes, I just have not verified Linux myself, so don't know how more or less stable it is. Good to hear.
jefftheworld wrote:
Yeah, it's extremely painless under Linux. Why are people having trouble with OSX?
Cant compile gbdk source- SDCC has not supported GBZ since the 90s or something.
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Just for the sake of curiosity:
If you program Game Boy stuff on C, are you limiting your control compared to doing so on assembly?
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Well, C is just another level of abstraction from machine code. You won't have minute control of what the compiler does when you write C code. This might not be a problem depending on how much performance you have to milk out of the code. I'd say use a C compiler and inline assembler code for things that require more performance than the compiler will give you.
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I asked because I figure out that when programming in Game Boy, you'd probably need a lot of control on the hardware for certain things, and I don't think C allows you to do that. Just from my ignorant point of view xD
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Oh, don't worry about that. They're really equivalent as far as hardware control goes. You know, LSDJ was written mostly in C I think.
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Murcia, Spain
Ahhh right. Interesting stuff here. Thank you for your answers!
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matt's mind
^as was nanovoice (or was it nanosynth?)
there is c source floating around for one of those. commented too if you want to play with it!