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Homebrew Game & Watch Games Make Debut

Posted by simoniker on from the highly-addictive dept.

Kojote writes "The latest PDRoms Coding Competition has just finished. The idea was to write a homebrew Game & Watch-style freeware game for handhelds or consoles, and there were a total of 24 freely downloadable submissions. In detail, there were 10 Game Boy Advance entries, 8 GP32 entries, 3 Gameboy Color entries, 1 Genesis/Megadrive entry and 1 Neo Geo Pocket Color entry. The winning entries were headed by Beer Belly Bill (GBA) by Metalvotze. If you don't have real hardware to test the entries, you can use emulators such as VisualBoy Advance (GBA/GBC) and GeePee32 (GP32). Have fun!"

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  1. Not to insult but... by b0r0din · · Score: 2, Interesting

    none of them look particularly interesting. Maybe the winner, but some of them look like those old Tiger handheld games.

    It's cool to see an interest in homebrew games, I guess I'm not all that impressed by what I saw. Maybe they play better, too.

    I'll hold off judgement until I try one out, though.

  2. VBA by mboverload · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I found Visual Boy Advance a year ago and have been using it ever since. It does foliters so you can make games kinda look like they were meant for the computer and the resizing works very well. I love how you can press space and it willl speed the game up 1000%. Very useful in walking around Poke-Land and in battles.

    Anyway, VBA is the pwnage and I encorage anyone to get it.

  3. DDR for GBA? by tepples · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Anybody want to see a GBA version of Dance Dance Revolution, Dance With Intensity, StepMania, or Pydance? Reply if you want me to continue working on what I have so far.