Wrong Road GBA

Wrong Road GBA
General
Author	jenswa
Type	Racing
Version	2021
License	Mixed
Last Updated	2021/06/24
Links
Download on itch.io
Website
Source

Wrong Road GBA is a retro style racing game.

It was submitted to the GBA Jam 2021.

Features

• Mode 4 with sprites.
• lz77 compressed mode 4 images.
• Single sound channel effects.
• Pause menu with sleep option (press L+R+START to wake up).
• VBlankIntrWait().
• Appended binary assets.
• 256 color mode, but I should probably have gone for 16 color mode.

Installation

Uunzip the contents of the executable download.

And sent the multiboot binary to your gameboy advance.

User guide

Avoid opposing racers for as long as you can.

Controls

Start - Continue from the title screen

Left/Right - Move the racer into a new lane

Start - Pause menu

Up/Down - Choose options from the pause menu

A - Confirm option from the pause menu

Screenshots

Compatibility

Tested by Jenswa on:

Windows 10 x64 with VBA 1.8.0-beta 3
Nintendo DS Lite with EZ Flash Omega
GBA-SP with ED X5 Mini (the game was hardly visible on this SP unit)

Credits

Thanks to:

• Jason Wilkins - Dev-Kit Advance.
• Forgotten - VisualBoyAdvance.
• Eloist - gba header files.
• Nokturn - gba keys demo.
• Dovoto - dma.

• Dark Fader - gbafix, to patch the multiboot headers.
• CowBite Virtual Hardware Specifications.
• GBATEK.
• GameBoy Advance Dev'rs.
• gbajunkie - His tutorials.
• Jonathan S. Harbour - Help with interrupts.
• nmain reply in Krawall with swi_vblank on the gbadev forum.
• Chris Strickland - His article about Audio Programming On The GameboyAdvance.

External links

• Author's website - https://jenswa.neocities.org/jenswa's-page.html
• itch.io - https://jenswa.itch.io/wrong-road-gba