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Beginners > Converting text files to be read on a gba?

#26281 - zingbad - Sat Sep 11, 2004 10:12 am

Is there such a program that can do this because I want to use guides while i'm playing games and if there on my gba i, i can just look up what to do next instead of quitting and restarting it?

#26282 - SimonB - Sat Sep 11, 2004 11:24 am

You mean...something like the GameBoy Book Reader?

Simon

#26290 - tepples - Sat Sep 11, 2004 4:34 pm

True, but you need 2 GBAs for that: one to play the game and one to run bookreader.
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#26293 - sajiimori - Sat Sep 11, 2004 5:30 pm

Have you made a substantial part of your game yet? Have you made a system for getting text on the screen? Do you understand ASCII, the most common encoding for plain text?

#26296 - SimonB - Sat Sep 11, 2004 6:41 pm

I dont think he is writing anything, I think he just wants to play backed up games and have access to a guide/walkthrough or something.

But yes, using the GameBoy Book Reader would mean having to restart the GBA and read the guide and then start it up again.

Simon

#26297 - sajiimori - Sat Sep 11, 2004 7:26 pm

Oh, I should read more slowly.

#26301 - zingbad - Sun Sep 12, 2004 3:38 am

I want to eventually do walkthroughs for PC games (especially mmorpg's) that will have background pictures and sprites so people can just turn the gba on to see what to do next, but at the moment i'm just doing somthing simple for me. Thanks for all the help everyone :)