Port Slider game to GameBoy Advance on mGBA

Download slider-8-actual-GBA.gba for mGBA

What is a slider.gba

• slider.gba is a very simple NxN sliding puzzle game that can be run on GameBoy Advance.
• It has been written in optimized modern ISO C++17 except core game logic originally written in C.
• No special library(libheart) ,except libc for memcpy function(if in use), libgcc for basic software math function(div and mod).
• Work great on mGBA, higan, VisualBoy Advance, VisualBoy Advance-m and BoycottAdvance.

Features

• Modern C++ style library in Graphic.hpp and Keypad.hpp
• Provides Iterator in Grange struct
• Higher level abstraction than C
• Graphic.hpp supports Graphic mode 3,4,5
• Keypad.hpp supports dual style keypad action method message() and dispatch()

#include "Graphic.hpp"
#include "Keypad.hpp"

static const char A[] = {
        0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0,
        0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0,
        0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0,
        0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0,
        0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0,
        0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0,
        1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1,
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
    };

static const char B[]={
        0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0,
        0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1,
        0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1,
        0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0,
        0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1,
        0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1,
        0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0,
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
    };

int main()
{
	GraphicDevice::refdispcnt() = 0x400 | Color5::mode;

	Graphicx<Color5p1> g1;
	Graphicx<Color5p2> g2;

	g1.bgcolor(RGB15(0,31,30));
	g2.bgcolor(RGB15(20,31,40));

	{
		unsigned int i=0;
		for(auto &r:g1.grange(50,50,50+8,50+8))
			r=A[i++] ? RGB15(0,0,31):RGB15(0,31,30);
	}

	{
		unsigned int i=0;
		for(auto &r:g2.grange(50,50,50+8,50+8))
			r=B[i++] ? RGB15(31,0,0):RGB15(20,31,40);
	}
	
	Keypad<KeypadDevice> keypad;

	while(true)
	{
		const auto e = keypad.message().first;

		if(e==e.EVENT_DOWN)
		{
			g1.waitVSync();
			g1.flip();
		}
	}

	return 0;
}

Keypad

- UP     == moves down block
- DOWN   == moves up block
- LEFT   == moves left block to right
- RIGHT  == moves right block to left
- START  == reset a board
- SELECT == Hold SELECT for complete board representation
- A      == pred origin random seed and init board
- B      == succ origin random seed and init board

Game Play

• Complete block arrangement

Tools for slider.gba

• Toolchain: MSYS2

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-arm-none-eabi-toolchain

or

pacman -S mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-arm-none-eabi-toolchain

• GameBoy Advance emulator: mGBA
• Native Compiler: MSYS2 for build gbafix2 (ROM GameBoy Advance Head Builder & Fixer)

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain

• gbafix2: gbafix2 for ROM header (included)

How to make

• Open MSYS2
• Then let's make it!!!!

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/hwoy/slider.gba.git
cd slider.gba
sh Install.sh

• If it success , you will see
• slider-8-actual-GBA.gba for actual ROM (slider-actual-GBA.gba = 0xC0 bytes of header + 0x80000C0 entry point slider-actual-GBA.noheader)
• gbafix2 can add 0xC0 bytes of header to raw .gba file

Special Thanks

• Awesome fonts from https://github.com/Peter-black/SuperCrateBox-GBA included in Font.hpp

Contact me

• Web: https://github.com/hwoy
• Email: [email protected]
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/dead-root