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Coding > PS2 programmer wants to play. can you help?

#2596 - jam_cam - Sat Feb 08, 2003 3:07 pm

hi,

i work for a games developer in the uk mainly on ps2. i want to program GBA as a hobby.

who recommends which tools (preferably freeware), and which emulators?

i would like to develop solely in an win32-based emulator environment for now.

hope you can help.

jim.

#2599 - tepples - Sat Feb 08, 2003 4:37 pm

These are the tools I use. All the programs I list here (other than Windows itself) are OSI Certified open source software.

Compiler: Devkit Advance.

Emulator: VisualBoyAdvance, the most accurate free GBA emulator for any platform.

Tile editor: GIMP for Windows (plus a BMP to GBA format converter) and the multi-format tile editor in Pin Eight NES Tools.

Binary include tool: GBFS.
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#2745 - jam_cam - Tue Feb 11, 2003 9:07 pm

cheers for that!

#2746 - Daikath - Tue Feb 11, 2003 9:46 pm

A PS2 programmer?!

*Daikath is a Sega fanboy!*

J/k :)

What comany do you work for? (if you want to tell :)).

Here is hobbyist made (as far as I can tell) documentation: http://www.work.de/nocash/gbatek.htm
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#4316 - excessus - Thu Mar 27, 2003 2:03 pm

jam_cam wrote:
hi,

i work for a games developer in the uk mainly on ps2. i want to program GBA as a hobby.

who recommends which tools (preferably freeware), and which emulators?

i would like to develop solely in an win32-based emulator environment for now.

hope you can help.

jim.


I would recommend HAM sdk (c/c++) for the ease of it's installation (single file download) and use. Includes compiler, linker, emulator, debugger, graphical ide, good libraries for graphics and sound, lots of examples and documentation. And It's free too.

To learn more about it check these sites below:
HAM sdk: http://www.ngine.de/ham.html
HAM tutorial: http://www.aaronrogers.com/ham/
HAM news group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hamdev/
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#5655 - Daedro - Mon May 05, 2003 3:27 am

I recommend the devkitadv, but dont forget to get the pcx2gba, and bmp2spr programs.. I dont have the links, anyone else got them?

P.S. I disrecommend using HAM, its useful to use devkitadv in C/C++.. more tutorials, and the next system of gameboy would probably be in C++ and doesnt HAM run under its own code, no sense in learning a singular code that will have no use for other programming.