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#24763 - Inky - Wed Aug 11, 2004 1:22 am

hello im kinda getting started in gba programming and i was wondering if there was a program that would let take a rom and open it so i could take a look at the coding i just want to take a look at a profesionally designed game
thx in advance

#24765 - sajiimori - Wed Aug 11, 2004 1:53 am

No.

edit: Well, there are a number of open-sourced PC games, including older games from id Software. From a code design perspective, the difference between the platforms is not that significant.

#24767 - poslundc - Wed Aug 11, 2004 2:14 am

You can use Visual Boy Advance's disassembler to view the raw assembly code instructions of a game.

Good luck interpreting that, though...

Dan.

#24769 - ScottLininger - Wed Aug 11, 2004 3:10 am

There are also tons of smaller homebrew games on the main gbadev site that include source code. For a beginner, deconstructing a nice, simple pong game is better, because you can focus on the code syntax and structure rather than a huge mess of complex game logic.

Trust me on this one. You want to start simple. :)

-Scott

#24770 - Inky - Wed Aug 11, 2004 3:54 am

ok thx for all of your suggestions not sure which ill use yet but thx for posting