https://github.com/hcorion/nim-on-gba

A project with examples of Nim code on the Game Boy Advanced
https://github.com/hcorion/nim-on-gba

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A project with examples of Nim code on the Game Boy Advanced

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/hcorion/nim-on-gba
• Owner: hcorion
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-03-31T18:31:38.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-02-23T23:21:28.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-25T13:47:50.656Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: game, gba, homebrew, nim
• Language: Nim
• Homepage:
• Size: 424 KB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Nim On GBA

### **UPDATE:**

If you're actually interested in doing GBA game development in Nim, I would highly recommend checking out natu by exelotl (https://github.com/exelotl/natu) instead of the code on this repo. He's made much better progress than I in getting working GBA games in Nim.

### Original readme continued:

Are you tired of writing your Game Boy Advanced code in C?

Wouldn't you love to write your GBA code in python-esque syntax?

Well now you can!

Inspired by http://kylehalladay.com/blog/tutorial/2017/03/28/GBA-By-Example-1.html

## Examples (mostly ports of games written in C)

All examples require the nake package installed via nimble `nimble install nake`

- Minimum (port of https://gist.github.com/khalladay/7c86f092a48342adf6d35aa2861b3ed3)

- Snake (port of https://github.com/khalladay/GBASnake)

- Sprite (port of Kyle Halladay's tutorial here: http://kylehalladay.com/blog/tutorial/2017/04/04/GBA-By-Example-2.html)

- Background (port of Kyle Halladay's tutorial here: http://kylehalladay.com/blog/tutorial/2017/04/11/GBA-By-Example-3.html)

## Resources

- [GitHub Gist of tiny GBA example in C](https://gist.github.com/khalladay/7c86f092a48342adf6d35aa2861b3ed3)

- https://github.com/khalladay/GBASnake

- https://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/toc.htm

- https://github.com/dom96/nimkernel

- http://www.coranac.com/documents/taptngba/

## Possible future endeavours

Target original gameboy using SDCC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Device_C_Compiler

Target Virtual Boy using gccVB: http://www.planetvb.com/modules/tech/?sec=tools&pid=gccvb

## License

The main gba.nim file is licensed under the MIT license.

Some of the examples may be under a different license, because if it's a clone of a game/demo I'll honour the original dev and keep the same license.