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Just a thought... .GBA export? (AND OR SNES? :D)

PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 8:20 pm
by Hblade
Who else agrees that it would be awesome if we can make our own GameBoy Advanced Roms (.gba) to be played (or burnt to a cartrige) on VisualBoyAdvanced or any other GBA emulator?

I for one, would think it would be awesome! I would for sure start making BLAST for the GBA lol

Makslane, please do this! :D

If you need the GBA Bios, take this one:
gbabios.rar
(12.94 KiB) Downloaded 358 times


Thats the binary file for the GameBoy Advanced!

I think it would be so freaking cool to be able to export to GBA or heck, even SNES! :D

SNES has a .smc file. Other known types for SNES games are a .fig file.

GBA Specs:
- The following are the basics of the GBA specs:


Name: Game Boy Advance or GBA


LCD Reflection (non-backlit) TFT Color liquid crystal


Screen size: 40.8mm x 61.2mm


Resolution: 240x160 pixels
Display ability: 32,000 colors
CPU: 32bit RISC-CPU + 8bit CISC-CPU
Memory: 32KB WRAM+96KB VRAM 256KB WRAM (with built-in CPU)(outside of CPU)
Sound Speaker: (mono) /Headphone (stereo)
Link: Play Up to four players (GBA), up to two players (GB/GBC).
Power: Two AA batteries or Special battery adaptor
Battery Life: AA batteries: 15 hours
Size: 82mm length x 144.5mm width x 24.5mm thick
Weight: About 140g
Cartridge: 34.5mm x 60mm x 9.5mm
Maximum 256 Megabit (32 megabyte)

Re: Just a thought... .GBA export? (AND OR SNES? :D)

PostPosted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 1:53 am
by NightOfHorror
WOuld be cool, but whatever happened to the DS idea?

Re: Just a thought... .GBA export? (AND OR SNES? :D)

PostPosted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 5:29 am
by Hblade
DS would be cool too but I can't run the 3D inside of that for some reason.

I can make PS1 games look like PS2 but can't run 3D in DS Emulators xD

Re: Just a thought... .GBA export? (AND OR SNES? :D)

PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 5:49 pm
by SuperSonic
How would you burn your games to a GameBoy cartridge(if we ever got this export) :?
Just wondering :D

Re: Just a thought... .GBA export? (AND OR SNES? :D)

PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 6:23 pm
by Hblade
You have to buy special tools that no one in the world knows where to buy them... Only stupid business' know for some unknown reason.

Re: Just a thought... .GBA export? (AND OR SNES? :D)

PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 6:51 pm
by TSO
Rom hacks!
is it illegal if you create it? o.0

Re: Just a thought... .GBA export? (AND OR SNES? :D)

PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 8:08 pm
by Hblade
Anybody can make Homebrew games ^^

SNES programming:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Super_NES_ ... SNES_games


But yeah, anyone can make homebrew games it's marketing / burning it thats the hard thing, since they don't use CD's xD

But you can always use an emulator to play them, since it's a homebrew game it's not illigal :D

Re: Just a thought... .GBA export? (AND OR SNES? :D)

PostPosted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:23 am
by jimmynewguy
Question, if you would play it in emulators (unless of course you found those unknown tools to burn it..) you would run it on your computer. Isn't that just harder than opening a .exe? Don't mean to be pessimistic :lol:

Re: Just a thought... .GBA export? (AND OR SNES? :D)

PostPosted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 1:24 am
by Hblade
lol yes but it would be more original. Plus others can burn it if they'd like :D

Re: Just a thought... .GBA export? (AND OR SNES? :D)

PostPosted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 3:04 am
by NERDnotGEEK
i still have all my stuff back from my buring the pokemon mods for my gba :) id be happy to burn peoples games and send them to them if they paid for the postage and Cartridges :) if this idea got off the ground, there would be somthing slightly satisfying playing your own game on a gba :)

Re: Just a thought... .GBA export? (AND OR SNES? :D)

PostPosted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:52 am
by Hblade
yeah xD

Re: Just a thought... .GBA export? (AND OR SNES? :D)

PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 6:53 pm
by gamemakerdude
anybody heard anything like this being accomplished or attempted since this post was last discussed?

Re: Just a thought... .GBA export? (AND OR SNES? :D)

PostPosted: Sat Jan 05, 2013 3:19 am
by skydereign
No one on the project is working on this. Currently we are trying to get 1.5 released as soon as possible.

Re: Just a thought... .GBA export? (AND OR SNES? :D)

PostPosted: Sat Jan 05, 2013 10:01 am
by Hblade
I'm sort of excited for 1.5 and sort of not. The new features will be incredibly useful! But that means more torment for me lol.

Re: Just a thought... .GBA export? (AND OR SNES? :D)

PostPosted: Sat Jan 05, 2013 5:35 pm
by skydereign
Well I've been adding editor improvements as well, so physics isn't the only thing to look forward to. And one of the reasons we haven't released it yet is we are trying to get it as familiar to 1.4 as we can, so there shouldn't be too much trouble learning the new stuff.