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Coding > Displaying text on the gameboy

#14932 - slboytoy - Wed Jan 14, 2004 9:38 pm

How would you go about displaying text on the GBA screen? I've been trying for most of the day, and i've found examples but with ASM code. I'm only good with gcc though and I can't find any examples on how to display text on the GBA screen.

Thanks for any help.

#14933 - poslundc - Wed Jan 14, 2004 9:53 pm

If you are using a monospace font (where every character is the same width) and the width is a multiple of 8, you can use a text background and just assign the appropriate tiles to the glyphs of your font.

For more advanced systems, see this thread.

Dan.