I don't want to edit the files, I just want to view them. I want to try and make an HD sort-of remake of Bionicle Heroes on the GBA. I really love the original game so I want to see what I can do to make it better.
Is it possible to view GBA game files?
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Do you mean you want to view graphics? The process is the same as almost any other game: you open the ROM in a tile editor (like Tile Molester) and hope that the graphics are stored in a recognizable fashion. The GBA did not typically use "files" of any sort within the ROM; everything was usually stored as a big binary blob.
Compression was fairly common in GBA games since it had built-in BIOS decompression routines. Tools exist to decompress data in that specific format, such as https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/431/ .
But you can't expect to view levels maps or anything particularly complex, since developers were never required to store that data in a consistent format and you would have to painstakingly reverse-engineer the data format for each individual game before you would be able to view anything like that outside of the game.
Compression was fairly common in GBA games since it had built-in BIOS decompression routines. Tools exist to decompress data in that specific format, such as https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/431/ .
But you can't expect to view levels maps or anything particularly complex, since developers were never required to store that data in a consistent format and you would have to painstakingly reverse-engineer the data format for each individual game before you would be able to view anything like that outside of the game.
