How I programmed a Game Boy Advance game entirely on an iPhone
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Summary
A developer documents their experience creating a Game Boy Advance (GBA) game entirely on an iPhone, using a combination of iOS apps including iSH (an Alpine Linux shell) and the GBA bootstrap toolchain with GCC ARM compiler. They created a short "bitsylike" game called "TO THE TOWER" available on itch.io, proving that GBA homebrew development is possible using only mobile tools.
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Hacker NewsHow I programmed a Game Boy Advance game entirely on an iPhoneblog.adamledoux.netKey quotes
· 3 pulledit recently occurred to me that it would be possible to make a gba game entirely on my phone - once it did, i couldn't get the idea out of my head until i'd tried it
i made a short bitsylike game called TO THE TOWER - you can download it from itch.io if you'd like to play!
iSH - this is an alpine linux shell for iOS, which is what i used to compile the game (you can install the necessary arm gcc toolchain directly from the packag
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