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calc84maniac / tiboyce

A Game Boy emulator for the TI-84 Plus CE and TI-83 Premium CE.
https://calc84maniac.github.io/tiboyce/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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GBA support #180

Closed LeeRyanSA closed 1 year ago

LeeRyanSA commented 1 year ago

Will you ever port the Game Boy Advanced? The Gameboy Color is now supported, and so why not go a step further? I'm merely asking due to there being no reason provided for "Never the Gameboy Advanced". Thanks!

calc84maniac commented 1 year ago

Basically, the Game Boy Advance is at least like 5 steps further. It's a 32-bit system (the calculator is 8-bit), the graphics are really complex (you'd be lucky to get that level of graphics even in a native calculator game), it has more RAM than the calculator (when including the necessary framebuffers for rendering), and most games wouldn't fit in the calculator's Archive storage in the first place.

So yeah, there are real reasons. I'm not one to back down from a challenge, but the Game Boy Color is actually a reasonable challenge.

LeeRyanSA commented 1 year ago

Ah, thank you. So, the Ti-84 itself isn't that advanced to support the GBA due to the varying bit systems and the sheer file sizes of the ROMs are a problem? I fully understand. Thanks!