I took the Super Game Boy code I made for Petal Crash GBC and made a code example that shows off booting custom SNES code and then having the Game Boy side send files to the SNES as needed.

Code and ROM (under "releases"): https://code.novasquirrel.com/Maffi/SuperGameBoyStorageServer
Art: https://opengameart.org/content/tiny-16-basic

The text at the top is the result of asking the Game Boy to calculate $AA + $BB and send the answer to the SNES, as an example of doing other tasks than just getting files.

#snesdev #gbdev #gamedev

Why use a real-time clock (RTC) in a Game Boy game?
- Resource replenishment over real time deters binge play and beat-then-refund
- Cosmetic changes for time of day or holidays
- Spaced repetition in language learning games
- For non-game applications such as a personal organizer

Why avoid RTC in a Game Boy game?
- Increases cartridge cost
- Reduces backup battery life
- Players with screen time limited by time of day or day of week miss important in-game events
- Reduces exposure of your game to viewers of speedrun streams

#GameDesign #RealTimeClock #ScreenTime #GameBoy #gbdev #SpacedRepetition

RT Tony Wang @wangrenxin.bsky.social‬

"GB BASIC v1.7.0 is out! This release features new `load dialog` syntactic sugar, improved VRAM Debugger, kernel optimizations (boosting performance by 12%-14% in some cases), and critical bug fixes!

Check it out: store.steampowered.com/app/2308700/
"

#gbbasic #gbdev #gameboy #gamedev #retrogaming #retro