awesome-gbadev VS pokefirered

If you are GBAdev curious, join us on the GBAdev Discord.. It's a great community of nice people of all dev levels who love the GBA.

There are lots of forums online. The GBAdev Discord has a matchmaking channel to help people build teams.

Thank you! We've got some stuff on how we made the game in the GBAdev forum. My partner has info on the sound engine and assembler he built for the game on his site.. It's all open source. Feel free to dm me questions here or join us on the GBAdev Discord. We want to help grow the retro community so don't hesitate to reach out.

An amazing resource to learn about the GBA is TONC. At the start I read it many times to wrap my head around the hardware, and I still consult it often when I forget stuff. Also here you can find (probably) all the tools worth using. Make sure to join the gbadev discord too, people there are extremely helpful!

gbadev.net has a lot of resources, and their discord server has even more

Definitely definitely look at doing your project as a decomp using pokefirered or The Complete Fire Red Upgrade.

Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire, Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen and Pokémon Emerald.

The quickest way would be to edit the decompilation. All the graphics are stored there as separate files there allowing you to easily replace them.

The "Person ID" is what I was referring to in my previous reply. You should write the ID of a flag there. Then make sure the flag is cleared if you want the NPC to appear and make sure it's set if you want it to not appear. You can find a list of valid and unused flags here.

Or use the pokefirered source code decompilation project.

You will have to program those mechanics into the game. You can do that by using the pokefirered decompilation.

If you're just now trying to get into romhacking, the best thing to do is to check out the pokefirered decomp project here. I have the most up to date video tutorial series for the decomps, I use pokeemerald in my tutorials but a large part of everything is the same. We have access to the full decompiled source code, so it's really easy to make changes to whatever you want and the workflow is practically identical to what the actual Pokemon devs would have been doing, whereas binary hacking, the old outdated method, is its own entire thing.

Weird question but, how do games which are coded like pokemon work? https://github.com/pret/pokefirered/tree/master/src for example this disassembly in c. Seems like each component has its own file, like battle.c or trade.c etc. How do these components communicate with each other? How and where does the main gameloop run? I would be very glad to get more info and write something like this game on my own (each component in own file, not pokemon 2)) ), because I'm not good at game architecture and cant resolve this on my own. thx in advance