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Writing Gameboy code for the old skool hacker

By: potatono
March 25th, 2008
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Have you ever wanted to make a Gameboy game? Do you yearn for the days of yore when men were men and graphics code wrote directly to video memory? Have you ever wanted to tell a DMA controller who’s boss? Then c’mon down to my Gameboy programming classes! You’ll learn that, armed only with a laptop, an emulator, and some GNU tools you too can hack the Gameboy with the best of ‘em. Two sessions, two hours, too awesome! Get your tix and let’s get hacking!

Sign up! – Link

For this class please bring the following:
  – A laptop. (if you really don’t have one, let me know)
  – Optional: Gameboy, GBA or DS
  – Optional: Lab fee to get Flash cart (email me if interested)

Date – Saturday, April 12, 2008 and Saturday, April 26, 2008
Time – 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Cost – $100 (for both)
Location – NYCResistor (Map)

Make sure to check out all the other NYCResistor classes! – Link

Justin Day is a co-founder of video startup blip.tv and pioneering collablog linkfilter.net. Email reverse(“vt.pilb@nitsuj”)

7 comments
  • ConstyXIV

    Not sure, but is this Gameboy (classic), GBColor, or GBA? You might not know that the DS won’t do GB/GBC games natively, you need to run them in an emulator like Lameboy (at which point you’re better off using a PC emulator)

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  • http://justinday.com/ Justin Day

    ConstyXIV: Good to know on the DS incompatibility. This will be more the classic GB and GBC level of code. All the development will be done in a PC emulator so a gameboy isn’t strictly required.

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  • http://twitter.com/muhammadaqdas Muhammad Aqdas

    I’ll do it on Friday.