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Coding > new GBA tutorial

#175734 - erana_ - Thu Jan 27, 2011 2:22 pm

I have made a GBA programming/setup tutorial together with an adventure/RPG game.

The tutorial and ROM and source code are here:
http://soft.vub.ac.be/~jceuppen/games/gameboyadvance/gbajazz.html

It's all portable C.

Love,
erana

#175735 - Dwedit - Thu Jan 27, 2011 2:41 pm

ARM is not the same as MIPS, they are two different incompatible instruction sets. I think the term you're looking for is RISC, "reduced instruction set computing", meaning a load-store architecture.

ARM code:
mov r0,#15
add r1,r2,r1,lsl#5

MIPS code:
li $1,15
sll $1,$1,5
add $1,$2,$1

The GBA uses ARM, not MIPS.
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#175739 - erana_ - Thu Jan 27, 2011 3:09 pm

Indeed I meant RISC. The text comes from my playstation 2 document which is MIPS-IV AFAIK.

thanks.

#178361 - Edward_Stryfe - Sat Apr 04, 2015 10:53 pm

That's very strange I'm getting a 403 Forbidden error... Boo Can anyone give me an html rip or a screen shot? I would really love to see this tutorial I am a newbie and desperately need these tutorials. THere are hardly any at all someone please help a brother out.