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This is the new work diary of the Darkforce Project. I'm currently looking for any links to GBA dev materials. Banner has been photoshopped together.

9/24 1:43 AM: Created the thread, photoshopped the banner together.

Sounds awesome.

I need to get a flash cart for my GBA SP, so I can put videos and stuff on it. Eventually this game.

I'm going to start drawing a kind of sketchcomic and uploading the pics.

Starts off as any Zelda game has, Link for some reason starts off to go stop the evil. Cut to "1 year later". No word of Link has reached the castle of Hyrule, nor any of the towns in the land. So you, Ranth, set off in search of Link.

Ryuke has come into the possession of a real GBA.

FraX was very helpful back when I started learning the ways of the GBA, you might want to look for him... Anyhow.

First things first (pimping my own projects), I made a tilemap creator a while back, it's somewhat flexible, but developed specifically for creating GBA tilemaps, and comes with exporting tools for it. You can create tiles with built-in painting tools, import them from BMPs or automatically break down screenshots (or any images, actually) into tiles and maps. If you think that's something you might need, Just ask and I'll post it somewhere wink

... You'll find links to most of what's needed at http://www.gbadev.org ... The forum's pretty great, too.

Starter tutorials are pretty easy to come by, I started learning from Gamedev:
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/programming/features/gba1/

Though my favourite is probably the PERN project:
http://www.thepernproject.com/

... And if you want to do it the assembly way:
http://k2pts.home.comcast.net/gbaguy/gbaasm.htm

This here is a crappy book someone tried to get published. It's horribly bad, but at least it provides the basics for a lot of things:
http://www.jharbour.com/gameboy/default.aspx

Here are the register spec:
http://www.cs.rit.edu/~tjh8300/CowBite/CowBiteSpec.htm

If you want to write sound code yourself...
http://belogic.com/gba/index.php
and
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1823.asp

VisualHAM is a pretty good IDE (avoid hamlib, though)
http://www.console-dev.de/visualham/

I really liked the Link to the Past style graphics, So I'll be going with that. Once I stop sucking at programming (and get a job to feed myself), I'll be doing this in my spare time. I'll draw up a storybook for the thread.