#rgbds — Public Fediverse posts

Poll results are in! Mostly the same as 2024. :)

(What's the MAIN way people play #GameBoy / Color games)

Combined results from Mastodon, Bluesky, and barely any Twitter this year. Very un-scientific and un-rigorous! 😅

See: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@bbbbbr/116730125497176484
#gbdev #gameboycolor #retrogaming #gbdk #gbstudio #rgbds

Been a few years, return of the Game Boy Screen poll!

What's the MAIN way you play #GameBoy / Color games?

(SGB / GB Player people: no room, you gotta shout it in comments)

Curious what people use since supporting OEM screens takes more effort for devs.

#gbdev #gameboycolor #retrogaming #gbdk #gbstudio #rgbds

Check out Timebeat, a time travel-themed rhythm game that fits on a 32kB cartridge, made by Daniel R. and Jonathan M. using RGBDS.

https://carlossss111.itch.io/timebeat

#GBDev #GameBoy #RGBDS

Today in project ideas I wish I'd get rid of:

An #rgbds (#gameboy / SM83 assembler) linker that turns the object file into ELF, allowing it to be linked into a linux program (and resolve symbols in doing so), coupled with a minimal CPU emulator with a few syscalls to be able to perform C calls/linux syscalls outside of the emulator.

...and then use that to implement the x11 or wayland protocol in SM83 #assembly and display things.

(I've been looking for excuses to learn these protocols)

New Game Boy jam for games made in assembly
Running October 14th - 31st, still time to join
200 Eur in prizes
https://itch.io/jam/gbretrodev25

Games from the jam last year worth a look too:
https://itch.io/jam/gbretrodev24

#gbdev #gameboydev #asm #retrodev #rgbds

What tools were used to make #gameboy games in #gbcompo25 ? Similar to previous compos + new tooling.

- #gbstudio main share
- #asm, #gbdk / C, #zgb a couple
- New! #GBBasic #libgb++ #MatlabGB

"Unknown" == likely #asm (#rgbds, #wladx, etc)

Data using: https://github.com/bbbbbr/gbtoolsid
#retrodev #gbdev

Managed to get my in-progress #GameBoy game up on Itch with a web build!

https://mwheeler.itch.io/ez-maze

#gbdev #rgbds

Starting to think that I may not win this battle with my Makefile.

#gbdev #rgbds

Managed to add a title screen to my little #GameBoy game. Making progress!

#gbdev #rgbds

Finally making some progress towards learning #GameBoy ASM development with #rgbds. This stuff is still way over my head, so I'm thrilled to be making any progress at all!

#gbdev

Romusage now runs in your browser too.
(local only, so no files leave your computer)
http://bbbbbr.github.io/romusage/

#GameBoy #GBDK #rgbds #gbstudio #retrodev

Previous release and more info: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@bbbbbr/113950938951675708

New release of #romusage 1.3.1
- Experimental GBDK NES
- Allow leading area underscores for .noi/.map
- Fix: Brief mode header area multi-counting

Win/Linux/Mac console app that measures free ROM & RAM space for #GameBoy games. Works with #gbdk, #rgbds, #gbstudio & ROM files

https://github.com/bbbbbr/romusage/releases/tag/v1.3.1

New release of #romusage dev tool:
- Choose which bytes treated as empty for binary ROM files (improve usefulness for roughly finding empty space when patching ROMs)
- Allow filename to be any order in option arguments
- Added macOS ARM binaries

It's a small console app for Windows/Linux/macOS that measures free ROM & RAM space for #GameBoy games. Works with #gbdk, #rgbds, #gbstudio and plain ROM files.

https://github.com/bbbbbr/romusage/releases/tag/v1.3.0
#gbdev #retrodev

New release of #RGBDS #assembler for #GameBoy is out, version 0.8.0

Some breaking changes so check release notes when updating projects

https://github.com/gbdev/rgbds/releases/tag/v0.8.0

#gbdev #retrogaming #retrodev #asm

I am officially bisectual.

I used #git bisect for the first time today when tracking down a breaking change in #RGBDS, a #GameBoy assembly language toolchain. I first caught it incorrectly overlapping ROM sections when building #240pTestSuite, and then I added tooling to another project (Libbet and the Magic Floor) that I could bisect more quickly.

Log at https://github.com/gbdev/rgbds/issues/1350#issuecomment-1987582937
#gbdev