making own gb/gbc/gba roms

[mina]

How can I do my own gameboy / gameboy color / gameboy advance roms?
What kind of software do I need? ;)

[silver]

Originally posted by mina@Mar 4 2004, 11:05 AM
How can I do my own gameboy / gameboy color / gameboy advance roms?
What kind of software do I need?

Connect GBA Cartridge to PC
You have to have a way to connect gameboy cartridge to the PC. For that you can you Flash Advance Linker or FA Linker Xtreme. Regular linker connects to Printer port when Xtreme can be connected to both printer port or USB.

Save game data on PC as *.GBA file
When you have FA Linker connected you can use Flash Advance Writer, Little Writer or Flash Xtreme writer software to save the game from the cartridge on to your PC Hard Drive. It will be saved as .GBA file. Most roms are 4MB or 8MB
(1 Mega Byte on PC = 8 Mega Bits on Cartridge)

Play backuped games on PC, GB Advance or GBA SP
When you have backuped the game on the PC you can Play it with one of the Gameboy Emulators or you can send it a ReWritable Flash Advance card and play it on another Gameboy. Because Flash Advance Cards are bigger than regular GBA Cartridges you can make compilation of say 8 of your favorite games and write them to one 256M FA Card.

[onewecallgod]

what do you mean by "doing" your own game boy roms? writing your own or dumping your own?

[mina]

I want to write my own gameboy-game.
Programming, you know?

[belmont]

There are tools but I don't remember them...
You should ask here
Many people there are making games.

[onewecallgod]

you probably need extensive knowlegde of c++ and the hardware of the gameboys but i may be wrong