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ChunkySteveo128 days ago(+1)

Hey, glad you liked it!!

My plan was to release the project files - but as the deadline approaches, I quickly turned into "sloppy dev" and there's a lot of fudges and messy hacks to get things working for the Jam. It's not a pretty project anymore, haha!!

BUT - I'd like to pull the game mechanics apart and produce some stand-alone project files for people to learn from. I'd like to create these into a few articles for GB Studio Central with accompanying tutorials and project files. Examples would be a stand along project that shows how to detect each Game Boy hardware, a project to detect and use the GB Printer, a project to give a working "GB Link Cable" game - like the one I made with the bridges and buttons etc.

All "to-do" for me to write up. What elements would you be keen on learning first - and I can prioritise that?

Steve

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Sam Sarette127 days ago

I know there’s multiplayer docs out there, but I think the super gameboy with multiple controllers blew my mind a bit.

I had to dock my analogue pocket (no SNES) and pair a bunch of controllers, laughing the whole time “why do I want to do this so badly?”

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ChunkySteveo127 days ago

oh wow... did not know you could do that with the Analogue Pocket?! So that was a SNES core running a SGB core too? Mind blowing!

The multi-player part of this is probably my worst work...(!) It's very clunky and not optimised at all, which is why they are 'stone columns' to give the impression of being slow(!!!)

I'd love to share a multi player project when I can get the part optimised, showing 2 player, and also 4. The Jam version polls the joypad ID values and works out which pad is pressing what. Then every 0.5 seconds it updates the 'stone columns' to move a tile. It's messy, to say the least!!

But I will make a note to seek some help to better optimise the controlling to get an example project out there.

You should check out Bobby Volley GB on itch... they have a 2 player SGB game for GB that plays very smoothly 👌🏻 . No project files sadly.

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Sam Sarette127 days ago

It’s actually a Super Gameboy-specific core.

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ChunkySteveo127 days ago(+1)

awesome! I have a snes everdrive and that has a SGB and SGB2 core.

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