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Introduction

Hello!

This time I'm here to show you my first GBC demo! Specially made for the 2014 GBDev Game Boy Coding Compo.

I started it like four years ago, but stopped after doing 3 scenes (the first effect, the text scroller at the end of the first song and the colorful horizontal bars before the matrix effect). I've coded the rest in just a few weeks, in fact I started doing new effects a few days before the GBDev compo announcement. I've coded it and made the music, the only thing I haven't done is the train screen graphics and the credits graphics. I'm not a very good musician, so... Oh, and it shows a little credits screen in non-color GBs!

If you want to test it in an emulator use one of:

• BGB
• Gambatte
• VBA-M
• My GiiBii Advance :P

Most emulators have a "Frame Blending" option, enable it to simulate the real Game Boy LCD. It works in real hardware, of course! I've tested it in DMG, MGB, GBC, GBA and GBA SP. Non-color GB only show the reduced credits screen!

If you want to skip some parts, hold up/right/down/left when the demo is loading.

• Up: Go to the effect before the blobs.
• Right: Go to the pentagon effect.
• Down: Go to the fire effect.
• Left: Credits.

The demo has been made using:

• My fork of RGBDS (with a few bugfixes)
• A GBT Player version modified to use only the first ROM bank.
• OpenMPT to make the music.
• GBTK and GBMB.
• MSPaint :P
• A bit of Photoshop

I hope you like it! :)

GitHub repository

YouTube video

Credits

• Code, music, most graphics: Antonio Niño Díaz (AntonioND)
  • Emails: [email protected] / [email protected]
  • Webpage: http://antoniond_blog.drunkencoders.com/
  • Old webpage: http://antoniond.drunkencoders.com/
• Train and credits art: jordirafel
  • Email: [email protected]

License (BSD)

Copyright (c) 2014, Antonio Niño Díaz (AntonioND) All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

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