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Unofficial GBA SDK Available for Free

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the time-for-me-to-design-super-final-zelda-bros. dept.

BlackGriffen writes "Anyone who is interested in making their own Gameboy Advance ROMs can go get an unofficial GBA SDK . With this and a flash ROM kit from someplace like lan-kwei.com, we could see a flourishing indie game making community. Available for Linux and Mac OS X only (for now, it's open source)."

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  1. Re:awesome by cwebster · · Score: 4, Insightful

    >Actually, how low-level is the API?

    well if you realyl want to consider assembler an API, that is your answer. ARM flavored assmebler.

  2. While we're at it... by strags · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A couple of other things:

    Yes, a linux distro would fit

    Since RAM is limited to 256K(slow) + 32K(fast), it's unlikely you're going to fit a Linux distro that can do anything meaningful. Bear in mind that the ARM7 does not have a MMU, so you'd be limited to uCLinux or something of that ilk.

    Yes. In fact, there's a port of an emulator which runs NES binaries

    It's not a port. It was written from scratch.