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My serial LCD for displaying directions
mr.Curmudgeon:
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Industen,
Great work!
Any progress with the GBA tutorial...I'm drooling over this option and I imagine people in this scene could help automate the GBA ROM creation process so it'd be easier to create the screens. The sooner you release the tips, the sooner we can get started on improving the function!!
mrC
SirPoonga:
Before I read through many pages of this thread again, is there a website setup for this? I know it uses controls.dat and I'd like to link to it from the website.
Silver:
Well I don't think anyone ever actaully put together a website for either the LCD or the GBA.
LCD:
maraxle has some info on his project page for his cabinet at:
http://www.jhanson.com/aquajack.shtm
The LCD setup is easy if you use a PJRC one (as maraxle and several others, including me have) - you just hook it up to a com port (it has a RS232 interface) and copy txt files out to the com port. The txt files can include instructions for font/scrolling etc...
There were a couple of programs knocking around that used controlsdat (and listinfo) to generate the txt files. You can download mine at
http://www.silverfoxy.plus.com/LCDGen.html
It pulls the info from controls dat, and if there is no entry it gets the info from listinfo (which is ovbiously less useful). I'm also working with someone who wants to use it for a BetaBrite sign, so it should support those in the future too.
GBA:
No idea, but would love to know what it was done with, I've got a USB link to my GBA but would like to know how to communicate to tell it about game changes etc... Not sure if its done with a rom per pic or what....
wj2k3:
You can use the attached program to turn an image into a GBA ROM. It is actually meant to create a slide but for this purpose we would just use one. (change the extension from TXT to ZIP)
If have created several to test and can verify they work with VisualBoyAdvance but I am unfamiliar with hot to send them to the GBA.
Can you send roms to your GBA via the USB link? I suppose you would use a batch file to send the rom and then launch MAME.
I don't have a GBA to try this out but have been thinking about picking one up.
What do you use the USB link for now?
wj2k3:
Here is a sample GBA rom I created with this program. (change the extension form TXT to GBA)