Suggestion: Super Game Boy borders

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This is more of an enhancement than a defect, but I think it would be great
if SGB games could be played with their borders. Thanks if you decide to
implement it, I understand if you can't or if it's low priority. :)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by cov...@gmail.com on 14 May 2009 at 2:16

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I don't know if the code for borders already exists or not in VBA-M. I'll have 
a 
look.

Original comment by Carl.Kenner@gmail.com on 18 May 2009 at 5:20

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement, Priority-Low
• Removed labels: Type-Defect, Priority-Medium

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Issue 115 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by dborth@gmail.com on 18 May 2009 at 5:30

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The Windows version of VBA-M build 781 definitely supports borders, but I have 
no
idea if it's just the Windows build or if it's also in the SDL version.

Original comment by cov...@gmail.com on 18 May 2009 at 11:13

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We're not using SDL here.

Original comment by dborth@gmail.com on 19 May 2009 at 2:18

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Oh. In which case, I should have said, "I have no idea if it's just the Windows
build, or if it's in the base code that they're made from."

Original comment by cov...@gmail.com on 19 May 2009 at 3:11

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there's support in VBA-M for this, and already a partial implementation you'll 
find 
in vbasupport.cpp line 1012. But I never actually tried to use this. You'd need 
to 
check if there was a texture size difference, scaling adjustments needed, etc.

Original comment by dborth@gmail.com on 26 May 2009 at 6:31

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just to add something here: Are Super Gameboy PALETTES possible in VBA GX?
(for instance play old-school Gameboy-Tetris with Super Gameboy color palette 
instead
of grey?)

Original comment by dbzmu...@gmail.com on 31 May 2009 at 10:20

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Games that support Super Gameboy are in colour already.

Palettes are implemented now, so you can play monochrome gameboy games in any 
colours 
you want. You can't select from any built-in palettes yet though, except by 
cutting 
and pasting in the XML file.

Things like specific palettes built into specific hardware are impossible for 
me to 
implement without the hardware or documentation.

Original comment by Carl.Kenner@gmail.com on 31 May 2009 at 1:16

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If you guys are attempting to emulate the SGB in some way then you may be 
interested 
in this http://www.its.caltech.edu/~costis/sgb_hack/

Basically someone recently dumped the boot rom from a SGB, which could help 
accurately emulate the pallettes used by the SGB.  It was reported recently on 
dcemu 
GBA section.  It would help with functionality with games that actually took 
advantage of the SGB as well.  Anyways it's there if you're interested in 
taking a 
look at it.

Anyways I thought I'd throw it out there since some scene sites are ignoring it 
and 
just reporting on the GBC boot rom being dumped, and not the SGB, which would 
probably otherwise go unseen unless you visited one of the few sites reporting 
the 
SGB boot rom dump.

Original comment by spider5...@yahoo.com on 30 Sep 2009 at 5:22

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Original comment by dborth@gmail.com on 2 Dec 2009 at 9:56

• Changed state: WontFix