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[BuddyC]

We all know about PSP homebrew and what it can do. But with the recent arrival of a GBA Movie Player, I can now partake in the GBA homebrew scene. Except ...I don't know anything about it. What can I do? What's good? What's not?

 

[Gattsu25]

are there any good text readers?

 

[brandonnn]

I guess it depends on what exactly you wanna do.

http://www.gbadev.org/ and http://www.devrs.com/gba/ will give you links to homebrew games and compo entries, http://www.ngine.de/index.jsp?pageid=3510 and http://www.nocturnal-central.com/catapult.php?cookieset=1 are the two main homebrew dev kits for doing your own stuff (HAM being the more popular of the two -- http://www.aaronrogers.com/ham/index.php has a fairly deep tutorial).

Is that what you were thinking?

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

The thing about the GBA Movie Player's support for actual GBA code is that it must all fit in RAM. Basically just things that are made to work in multiboot mode. So even though you can find a boatload of GBA homebrew games and such, only a fraction of the small ones will work. That being the case, testing to see if they actually work is quite a pain, and there are probably many things that owrk that I don't know about. Looks like I've got a calculator, Yahtzee, Minesweeper, and graphically/aurally weird Tetris game "Tetanus on Drugs" sitting on mine.

As I mentioned in one of the PSP threads, the Game Boy emulator Goomba works well for small-ish ROMs, so the combined Goomba + ROM file is less than 256K.

 

[marc^o^]

The new Supercard is excellent:
SD or CF card versions - GBA Movie player and plays GBA Roms.

Tutorial here

 

[Sp3eD]

Not sure what will exactly work on your movie player, but PocketNES is pretty much the best thing on the GBA by far.

 

[JackFrost2012]

Classic Sierra games on GBA, surprisingly playable: http://www.bripro.com/gbagi/index.php

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

Not sure what will exactly work on your movie player, but PocketNES is pretty much the best thing on the GBA by far.

That is pretty true, but GBA Movie Player has support for that by default. At least the version 2 I have. But pocketnes.gba in the root directory of the CF card, choose the FC Game option from the main menu, and pick a small enough NES ROM.

A guy going by the name of Dwedit has made some nice enhancements to PocketNES specifically for GBAMP, allowing for compression of ROMs so now even most 256K games work.

 

[koam]

GBA? Everyone is doing DS now.

 

[Haibane]

Great JPEG viewer
http://www.caimans.net/gba/

Very simple text viewer:
http://members.optushome.com.au/dancotter/ebook.htm
I know there are fancier ones out there, but I like this one for the fonts and the simple controls (L, R and A all scroll forward one page). It saves your location too.

Edit: hmm movie player only works with multiboot compatible roms doesnt it... dont think the above will work then, oh well.

Here's a link to the MP hacked pocketnes version on the pocketnes forum:
http://www.pocketheaven.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=2147

 

[dock]

The Supercard looks awesome! It's tempting to pick one up.

DS emulation and homebrew stuff still seems kinda flaky tbh, or at best confusing with the passme stuff. Has it settled down yet?

 

[Tiktaalik]

DS emulation and homebrew stuff still seems kinda flaky tbh, or at best confusing with the passme stuff. Has it settled down yet?

Wifime is very cool, but yeah it's not quite at the same level of ease as GBA, where you just bought a 3rd party developer cart with linker to put on homebrew apps.

There is a leaked official DS emulator out there apparently and people are using that to get the DS homebrew scene up and running. My friend is working on a game that is looking very cool, but I won't say anymore incase he gets bored and never finishes it.

It looks like alot of the DS homebrew solutions are trying to make use of GBA carts, which is great for all us who have the GBA dev carts.

 

[dock]

I think I'll pick up a GBA flash cart at some stage then, they definitely seem pretty mature these days and I like the idea of emulation built in, very handy.

 

[HCgamer]

Not sure what will exactly work on your movie player, but PocketNES is pretty much the best thing on the GBA by far.

How well does the little GBA run the Mega Man games, Bionic Commando, Castlevania series, Duck Tales, Rescue Rangers, Baseball Stars, Tecmo Bowl, Mike Tyson's Punch Out!, Kirby's Dreamland?

 

[Piepz]

Too lazy to type, but I'm in the scene for 2.5 yrs.
What exactly better can you do with movie player than with Flash kit ?

 

[tenchir]

You should have waited a bit for GBAMP v3 to come out, of course it has been renamed to M3. www.m3adapter.com

Too lazy to type, but I'm in the scene for 2.5 yrs.
What exactly better can you do with movie player than with Flash kit ?

Watch longer movie?