gbdev by Avik Das

Authors

Avik Das

About

A collection of programs written for the Nintendo Game Boy (GB). Due to the limitations of the hardware, all the programs must be relatively small, so it makes sense to keep them all in the same repository.

Technical Details

Technical details regarding this project are always available in the README accompanying the Github repository. The current page only provides a cursory overview suitable for those wishing to learn about the project.

Pre-assembled ROMs are available for all relevant sub-projects. These ROMs are playable using any GB emulator, such as VisualBoy Advance.

Sub-projects

The GB Development project consists of the following programs, detailed in their own pages:

• sprite, a simple test program that demonstrates a wide variety of hardware-provided functionality and general programming techniques.
• stat-interrupt, a program to demonstrate the use of the LCDC Status interrupt in order to achieve some graphical effects that would otherwise be difficult or impossible using the video system in the Game Boy.
• money-run, a simple side-scroller, in which the character is asked to go from left to right, navigating over a series procedurally generated columns. This game demonstrates how to create an actual game for the Game Boy.

Download

You can download this project in either zip or tar formats.

You can also clone the project with Git by running:

$ git clone git://github.com/avik-das/gbdev

Acknowledgements

This project is possible thanks to the hard work of all those in the GB development community who have taken the time to record their knowledge. Special thanks goes to emu-docs for gathering these write-ups and making them available to newcomers to the community.