6/3

okay let's do the mode7 thing https://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/mode7ex.htm#sec-intro

ok wtf this is so much

6/1

hehe

5/28

got the dumb sprite to render :)

now to animate

5/26

ok another side quest to blockds

we are in blocksds world now woo. was pretty painless actually woo

5/24

i will def get back to the sprite animation, but i went on a little meander into how the video ram stuff works. going to convert the bitmap background to a tiled backbround

5/23

lets see if we can animate an idle animation

5/21 lol it's too big

/opt/devkitpro/devkitARM/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/15.1.0/../../../../arm-none-eabi/bin/ld: region `lma9' overflowed by 5597720 bytes

resized

omg

5/20

how do i render him on the nintendo ds system

oh wait obsidian doesn't even like heics

first i need to make it a png

built imagemagick from source, so annoying https://imagemagick.org/script/install-source.php

my dream is that i don't have to keep doing this for everything. once it's on my system it's good now

ohh there's a thing called grit https://www.coranac.com/man/grit/html/grit.htm

ok what i'm going to try to do is render a background

ok looking at examples here https://github.com/devkitPro/nds-examples/tree/master/Graphics/Backgrounds

the 256 and 16 bit color examples look the same....

i wonder how they get the image in the right format

ok now to render an image...

starting with this example: https://github.com/devkitPro/nds-examples/tree/master/Graphics/Sprites/simple

looks like this

trying to make a game for the nintendo ds

basically following this: https://devkitpro.org/wiki/Getting_Started to get the right libraries installed

using this example to get started: https://github.com/devkitPro/nds-examples/tree/master/hello_world

emulator:

built melonds from source woo

got it working!