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Butano GBA

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General
AuthorGValiente
TypeDevelopment
Version17.8.0
LicenseZlib
Last Updated2024/07/10
Links
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Website
Source

Butano is a modern C++ high level engine for the Game Boy Advance.

Features

  • Create and display sprites, backgrounds, text, raster effects and more with only one line of C++ code.
  • Custom standard library without heap allocations nor exceptions, based on ETL.
  • Import and use your own assets with ease.
  • Multiple development tools like asserts, emulator logging and code profiling.
  • Based on modern C++ concepts like shared ownership and RAII.
  • Detailed documentation.
  • Multiple examples of most aspects of the engine.
  • The source code and assets of two full games (Butano Fighter and Varooom 3D) are provided with this project.

User guide

Butano is built on top of the devkitARM toolchain, so it supports Windows, macOS and Unix-like platforms.

The best way to get started is to read the download, install and start using Butano guide.

Homebrew projects made with Butano:

Title Author
Butano Fighter GValiente
Varooom 3D GValiente
Feline foopod
Symbol★Merged copyrat90
LRO - Luggage Retrieval Officer foopod
Bridge Quest fixxiefixx
Advance! Adventures Of The Math & Logic Club kvh64
Knight Owls blaise-rascal
Tremblay Island cinemint
Frost Princess squishyfrogs
GBA-NICCC GValiente
gba-free-fonts laqieer

Screenshots

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Credits

Third party libraries:

  • GBA hardware access and more provided by Tonclib, Universal GBA Library and agbabi.
  • Music and sound effects provided by Maxmod and GBT Player.
  • Fast number to string conversion provided by posprintf.
  • Fast math routines provided by gba-modern and Universal GBA Library.
  • Fast decompression routines provided by Cult-of-GBA BIOS.
  • Multiplayer support provided by gba-link-connection.
  • Pool containers provided by ETL.
  • Unique type ID generation without RTTI provided by CTTI.

External links

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