awesome-gbadev

video signal tests

Adventure game, developed in 2020. Implementation of link-cable multiplayer, fully digital audio.

2019 port of Pico8 version of Celeste.

A Docker image that includes DevkitARM and other GBA SDK tools, packaged together to allow a consistent toolchain configuration and reproducibility in builds. Also can be helpful in ensuring a consistent build environment for continuous integration.

A sleek strategy board game for the gba

Various experiments by Krom, such as video playback and 3D, written in ARM Assembly

A build system, libraries, and tools for producing programs for the Game Boy Advance using the Ada programming language.

Rust high level framework for the GBA with a build system, asset importing, tracker player and graphics abstractions.

Create GBA applications with the Lua programming language

Modern C++ high level engine for the GBA.

Simple, lightweight, intuitive framework for GBA game development

WIP SDK for GBA development using D, using LLVM toolchain. provides fully functional TONC, GBFS, Maxmod.

Drop-in application binary interface library (context switching, division, irq, memcpy, sine).

Music and sound library (supports .mod only, but

High level utilities on top of libgba.

C++20 header-only library for GBA development.

Library for programming the GBA with TinyGo

Cinemint's video for getting started with C++/Butano

Learn how to make GBA games using the Butano Game Engine. Each part of the engine will have own individual tutorial with example source code.

How to write your own sound mixer / MOD music player

The new, revamped version of the GBA programming tutorial. The original version is

Older GBA hardware documentation

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Our new hub for announcements and long-form discussion. It's a good place to ask questions and share progress on your projects.

The longstanding homepage of the scene. Still updated with news and releases (but the forums have been broken for a while).

Programming specs for the GBA and NDS hardware

The site carries the GBA name, but nowadays the console is relegated to the backbenches. It's a good place to talk about gaming and hardware though.

C/C++ cross-compiler toolchain, which includes libgba, libtonc, maxmod, and various tools and example projects.

GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain based alternative to devkitARM.

Stand-alone assembler and disassembler (WIP) designed specifically for GBA homebrew

An alternative Go compiler for embedded systems, that supports GBA compilation

Allocation techniques for the GBA's various memory regions

Analysis of the VRAM streaming approach for animated sprites