Ports For Gba...

[Jourdy288]

I've been checking out the GBA homebrew scene, and it's pretty impressive!
Right now, though, I'm interested into porting something (simple) by compiling it for GBA.
I just want to know if this is possible, and if so, what do I use?

 

[fischju2000]

I believe the most popular program is Devkitpro, specifically DevkitARM http://www.devkitpro.org/about/ - There are also links to some IRC channels. Wiki and forums have more information as well. If you wanted to talk to experts, they would be on those.

 

[Exophase]

Just so I'm clear, you want to port something to GBA? Because GBA is very unfriendly to straight up ports - even if you have something that fits its small resolution and color depth it has to be capable of doing graphics on a 16MHz ARM. GBA is designed for tile/sprite based graphics, and a straight recompile will never map to most of GBA's hardware.

But maybe your goals are a little different than I realize..

 

[Jourdy288]

ATM I'm just experimenting, but I do want to figure out if it's possible to port something like, say, Penjin. The thing is, though, I need to find a program that isn't dependent on any strange external libraries, too graphically intense, etc.
Thanks for the help so far!

 

[Jourdy288]

Any other recommendations?