tamaboy: a tamagotchi v1 emulator for gba

[lamb-duh]

tamaboy: a tamagotchi v1 emulator for gameboy advance

You will need devkitarm and a tamagotchi rom to compile.

 

[EvilJagaGenius]

This looks cute. I've never messed with Tamagotchis before, but maybe I'll give this a shot sometime.

 

[Coto]

hmm... this deserves a NDS port!

edit:

https://bitbucket.org/Coto88/tamaboy/src/

 

[lamb-duh]

hmm... this deserves a NDS port!

edit:

https://bitbucket.org/Coto88/tamaboy/src/

cool! good luck with the project.

i was able to test it finally on a real gameboy, and i was happy to find out it works perfectly (after i figured out to run gbafix on the rom)

 

[Coto]

cool! good luck with the project.

i was able to test it finally on a real gameboy, and i was happy to find out it works perfectly (after i figured out to run gbafix on the rom)

Yeah. It was actually the hard work you did in the gba port, served as some kind of guide. Thanks!
Edit (24 Jan 2022): And tamaboy-nds port, is finished!

 

[Coto]

I was doing my usual routines and then an user reported the current tamaboy (NDS port) of the branch I posted earlier was soft-freezing after about a day of use. Of course I gave it a go and as expected there was soft-lockups; the NintendoDS User Interface was working, but the emulator was freezing.

So after some investigation I found out @lamb-duh source code was older, and was missing proper MCU program initialization among other tamalib improvements on the source code... so a fresh port had to be done, and all the bugs went away! So far user feedback (since 2 days ago) is good.... even loading and saving current tama state to SD card works as expected!

NTR/TWL download

issue #1:merge new codebase (fixed)

issue #2:fix underflow value issue which also led to lockups. (fixed)

The second fix has to do with an u32 value which exceeded the max integer limit, effectively causing an underflow condition, thus preventing further tama execution.
(exact fix here)

 

[hippy dave]

Part of me is like "this is really cool, I should try and update the GBA version and add state saving" and another part of me is like "but I've never spent any time looking after virtual pets in my life and am unlikely to start now"