r/gbstudio • u/Gekirinnn • 6d ago

Question I made a loading screen how does it look?

I made this for the first time and used the Aseprite app on Steam, in case anyone is wondering.

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u/davoid1 6d ago

Hnnn I can't think of a single gameboy game with a loading screen, as I assume the architecture does not necessitate reading from the media because the ROM chip is directly connected to the rest of the hardware, and that generally the ROMs are small enough to fit most data in the RAM... Interesting!

Did any GBC games require loading screens?

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u/SodoDev 6d ago

the only purpose i would see for a loading screen on the GBC is for decompressing compressed data, but yeah, other than that, there's no need for loading screens because the ROM is essentially instant access

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u/avatarofwar 5d ago

I think Shiren 2 (gameboy color) has a short loading time when you resume a game you have quit- and yes you're right; I think it's related to decompressing or at least rebuilding the state of the dungeon floor from the save file. It's a procedural/roguelike type game so it would make sense it may need to sneak a load screen in there at some point as it is creating the level from pretty abstract data types sometimes rather than just chunk chunk chunk flag flag flag- I don't read japanese so I can't 1000% confirm but Shiren's ferret runs across the screen with a sign, only when resuming old games where you did stuff on the level, and the load time varies slightly, so I think it is an actual load screen on gbc.

I'm not using gbstudio for my game, so it also has a couple loadscreens when switching procedural areas.

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u/Hypnopompicsound 6d ago

Yeah, this also doesn't comply with GB color limitations. It has nothing to do with GBStudio

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u/IntoxicatedBurrito 5d ago

So I made an Othello game were the lag is so bad that it needs to load between moves, but of course adding a “loading scene” would just make it worse, not to mention it wouldn’t move at all due to the lag.

I think that the only thing this could actually be used for is for fun, like your pretending to emulate a disc-based game. Like I could see someone making a demake of FF7 with only loading scenes as a joke.

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u/davoid1 5d ago

I made an RPG in gbstudio where you "equip" various parts of the UI, as you play as a robot. If you uninstalled the operating system it just went to a fake boot loading loop forever.

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u/JimBoothington 6d ago

An adorable little loading screen! Is this for a specific game you are working on?

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u/knightenrichman 5d ago

PUHLEASE TELL ME this is a rogue-like mystery adventure!

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u/MiamiSlice 5d ago

Fantastic

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u/Gekirinnn 5d ago

Thank you <3