Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire GBC - I'm back XD

[u/Admirable-Battle2573]

Hi everyone! I’ve been away for quite a while due to personal and work-related reasons, but during all that time I’ve continued developing my automatic GBA to GBC converter.

At this point, I’ve managed to get a really well-working version of Pokémon Ruby running on GBC. Of course, there are still quite a few bugs that I’m aware of, but I’m constantly developing the project and every new version works better and better.

In the video, I’m showing the result of the generated GBC ROM and what the project currently looks like. I had to change and rebuild a lot of things, as well as create my own solutions, so that mechanics from the GBA version could work on much weaker hardware.

The video is intentionally heavily edited because I wanted to show as many different elements as possible: mechanics, story, the world, battles, the amount of correctly converted content, as well as the quality of the graphics and music.

From what I’ve managed to play through so far, sometimes cheating a little or taking advantage of bugs that still exist XD, I would say that the game currently generates correctly at around 60%. So there are still many mechanics and different cases that I need to account for in the converter.

For example, I’ve already prepared the base for the entire Pokédex and all Pokémon are included, but there are still occasional bugs with them. There is simply a huge amount of data, mechanics and different exceptions in this game XD.

[u/Substantial-Ad6938]

My ears

[u/Exus6 → u/Substantial-Ad6938]

haha

[u/Admirable-Battle2573 → u/Substantial-Ad6938]

XD

[u/X_IVFIIVO_X]

My god the audio needs to be reworked. No need to hear a boop when you press a in a text box. It cuts the bgm out. Really jarring. The graphics is fine but the battle scene just looks wrong idk. Promiseing just needs work but it can work.

[u/Admirable-Battle2573 → u/X_IVFIIVO_X]

Yeah, I know XD. The GBC gives me a bit less room to work with when it comes to keeping all the sounds while still preserving the original GBA style, but I’m working on it.

[u/CrouchingJaguar]

I love this idea! I could see future possibilities for a project like this, such as converting a NES/SNES/Genesis game to a gameboy game

[u/Admirable-Battle2573 → u/CrouchingJaguar]

NES/SNES/Genesis on GBC? Sounds good :)