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Title: Heig-Boy!
Post by: pcercuei on November 30, 2010, 10:35:04 pm

Heig-Boy!
GameBoy B&W emulator for Dingux
ALPHA
Version 0.1 (http://crapouillou.net/~paul/heigboy.zip)

Presentation:
I was sick of not being able to play Super Pika Land in color :)
So I decided to port the wonderful GameBoy emulator written by Brunni and his team, on Dingux and OpenDingux.
The emulator now uses SDL both for sound and video. The emulation is fullspeed starting from ~360MHz.

Screenshots:

(http://crapouillou.net/~paul/pika.png)(http://crapouillou.net/~paul/kirby.png)(http://crapouillou.net/~paul/pokemon.png)

Changelog:

• 30/11/10: Very first version.

Howto:

• Launch the emulator with gmenu2x, and choose the ROM to launch with the integrated browser (edit->Selector Directory to choose the ROM folder).
• The emulator can load palette script files, to colorize gameboy titles. If the game filename is "foo.gb", the palette has to be named "foo.gb.pal.ini". It has to be on the same directory as the ROM file.
• The default palette is a black/yellow one, to mimic the look of the old gameboy screen. If you prefer to have a greyscale palette, just rename the palette "greyscale.gb.pal.ini" as described previously.
• L+R to exit, L+X for a save state, L+Y to load the save state.

To create a palette:
Visit this website, and download the "ColorIt Painter" program: http://brunni.dev-fr.org/index.php?page=pcsoft_heigboy

Title: Re: Heig-Boy!
Post by: SiENcE on November 30, 2010, 10:54:07 pm

Nice and thanks Ayla!

Title: Re: Heig-Boy!
Post by: clach04 on December 01, 2010, 04:07:20 am

Good job Ayla!

Is the source available? I might look at doing a native build if the code is available.

Title: Re: Heig-Boy!
Post by: pcercuei on December 01, 2010, 07:18:13 am

I know the original authors, I asked them to merge my code, so then you'll just have to checkout their SVN and make :)

Title: Re: Heig-Boy!
Post by: SiENcE on December 01, 2010, 12:05:32 pm

Quote from: Ayla on December 01, 2010, 07:18:13 am

I know the original authors, I asked them to merge my code, so then you'll just have to checkout their SVN and make :)

Ayla, that's how i like it.

Title: Re: Heig-Boy!
Post by: ufo.mesh on December 01, 2010, 12:10:58 pm

Small offtop: What's the game (Pikachoo??) Level is very similiar to "Super Mario Land" (world 3, afair)

And thanks for the Heig-Boy!

UPD: Sorry, I was so impressed by this news that didn't notice the answer in it :)

Title: Re: Heig-Boy!
Post by: goldenegg on December 02, 2010, 01:41:14 am

Just tried this and it's fantastic!  Thanks for your work!

Hopefully someone decides to port this to the Caanoo as well.

Title: Re: Heig-Boy!
Post by: clach04 on December 02, 2010, 02:57:33 am

Quote from: Ayla on December 01, 2010, 07:18:13 am

I know the original authors, I asked them to merge my code, so then you'll just have to checkout their SVN and make :)

Do you have a URL for that? The web site, http://brunni.dev-fr.org/index.php?page=pcsoft_heigboy  appears to only offer 7z files.

Title: Re: Heig-Boy!
Post by: ufo.mesh on December 02, 2010, 09:02:13 am

I've got problems running this emulator :( After I launch it, it drops off the main dingux menu.
I placed files in \local\emulators\heig-boy and copied and changed a link-file (in \local\gmenu2x\sections\emulators) with

Code: [Select]

title=heig-Boy!
icon=/boot/local/emulators/heig-boy/heigboy.png
exec=/boot/local/emulators/heig-boy/heigboy.dge
clock=360
gamma=719565932
backlight=100File names and paths are correct.
Any suggestions?

Title: Re: Heig-Boy!
Post by: zear on December 02, 2010, 11:03:23 am

Quote from: ufo.mesh on December 02, 2010, 09:02:13 am

I've got problems running this emulator :( After I launch it, it drops off the main dingux menu.
I placed files in \local\emulators\heig-boy and copied and changed a link-file (in \local\gmenu2x\sections\emulators) with

Code: [Select]

title=heig-Boy!
icon=/boot/local/emulators/heig-boy/heigboy.png
exec=/boot/local/emulators/heig-boy/heigboy.dge
clock=360
gamma=719565932
backlight=100File names and paths are correct.
Any suggestions?

It requires you to pass the roms as command line parameters. Edit the link in gmenu2x and modify the rom selector options.

Title: Re: Heig-Boy!
Post by: Friendly Neighborhood Dingoonity Troll on December 02, 2010, 11:11:45 am

Quote from: ufo.mesh on December 02, 2010, 09:02:13 am

I've got problems running this emulator :( After I launch it, it drops off the main dingux menu.

Just to clarify what zear said:

Turn on the "Selector Browser". For "Selector Directory", put your rom folder.

Title: Re: Heig-Boy!
Post by: ufo.mesh on December 02, 2010, 11:29:10 am

Thanks zear and Jesse! Everything works fine for now!

Title: Re: Heig-Boy!
Post by: SiENcE on December 02, 2010, 12:52:57 pm

Where can i find "palette script files"?

Title: Re: Heig-Boy!
Post by: ufo.mesh on December 02, 2010, 03:41:30 pm

I still didn't find 'em, only an editor. Be glad to download 'em, too :)

Title: Re: Heig-Boy!
Post by: pcercuei on December 02, 2010, 05:06:08 pm

I can give you the one I made for Super Pika Land  ;D

As far as I know there are very very few palette scripts that have been made.
That's sad regarding what can be done with it.

If you are up to, you can design your own for your favorite game, it's very easy and fun to do ;)

Title: Re: Heig-Boy!
Post by: SiENcE on December 02, 2010, 08:43:29 pm

You should add your one to this thread. Maybe more people create some. Also make a link to the Editor.

Title: Re: Heig-Boy!
Post by: Chris23235 on December 03, 2010, 05:35:34 pm

Thanks for your work.

Title: Re: Heig-Boy!
Post by: rip on December 17, 2010, 05:25:07 pm

Hi,

I did not know this emulator and I was surprised.
You say that the games are going well apart from a speed of
360 but I could play almost everything at normal speed, 336.
Works very well.
Already commented in another post, but I was surprised at how well it sounded.
Thanks for discovering this little gem and I hope you continue updating it.

Title: Re: Heig-Boy!
Post by: pcercuei on December 18, 2010, 08:32:40 am

Wow, thank you :)

About the sound, that's something I take care of.
On heig-boy, sound is 44kHz stereo. Just try the difference with gnuboy4d, you'll be surprised :)

Title: Re: Heig-Boy!
Post by: wy_scorpio on February 11, 2011, 08:12:12 am

great!
but the emu should has a menu,and the frequency should be in 336Mh .that is better,
thanks

Title: Re: Heig-Boy!
Post by: spn-x on August 14, 2011, 01:31:54 pm

Sb got any ini files ? I'd like to have one that looks like a gb game in a game boy color for Super Mario Land.
PS.: I have a MAC so I can't make it myself.

Title: Re: Heig-Boy!
Post by: djlfmr on August 02, 2012, 11:05:12 pm

Thank you so much for this program!

Also, http://brunni.dev-fr.org does not work anymore. Do you happen to have copies of Heig-boy for windows, ColorIt, or Visual Boy Advance Color Edition?

Title: Re: Heig-Boy!
Post by: pcercuei on August 02, 2012, 11:14:11 pm

I'll mail Brunni about that.

Title: Re: Heig-Boy!
Post by: djlfmr on August 03, 2012, 01:50:01 am

I appreciate that. If I could get ColorIt Painter, I would make so many palette scripts.