"VBA-MAKE"

This is not the original Void's Blitzarre Advance (aka CCB_Round1). It can be found here.

This is for a tentative port of it's source to EA/make as well as general cleanup.

This is very WIP.

The goals of this project are (in no particlular order):

• To provide an example of a full hack that fully uses the make/EA method instead of the older (and slower) MAKE HACK.cmd to people.
  • Even outside of the whole make/EA, eventually providing a cleaner and well-documented open source full hack is the goal (this will no doubt have to come with many bugfixes and whatnot).
• For me to test the still experimental "CHAX" make/EA setup on a larger project and improve upon it as I go and do this.
• Maybe if I'm motivated start some kind of "overhaul" of the original VBA? This will come after everything else tho (if ever).
  • If I start doing this, maybe bring some more people in so we can have this fun together :)

Oh and this also has an updated skill system :)

Engine hacks changes

I'm going to take a lot of liberties as to what I add and change, as well as in how I do so.

Trying to keep using old stuff for the sake of doing so is getting tiring and I'd rather do what I feel would be better. The skill system in this project will probably end up looking very different from the main Skill System branch; and will probably be much incompatible.

This will involve rethinking hooks, modularise everything and stuff; And porting half (and only half! see below) of the hacks to C :)

ASM vs. C

As you may know, I have been primarily hacking in C for the past almost year now (I started doing that around december 2017). So it would be logical (albeit a bit overkill) for me to port everything to C and stuff.

I'm not going to do that.

Don't get me wrong, the plan still is to review everything; but for this project in particular, since the goal is provide a complete example, I want to keep a healthy mix of both ASM and C. So even some of the new stuff I'm adding will be 100% ASM.

However, everything written in ASM will be ported to use lyn and the FE-CLib reference, will hopefully no exception.

Building

The setup required to build this is very much similar to what you need for FE-CHAX (although not all CHAX tools are used yet, but they will most likely be eventually), so tl;dr you need:

• devkitARM and the DEVKITARM env var
• some unix/msys
• python 3 in your path
• Event Assembler as Tools/EventAssembler with ColorzCore.
  • This also requires the raws and stdlib from my unofficial "experimental" stdlib fork!
• Png2Dmp, PortraitFormatter and ParseFile in Tools (you can find them in Event Assembler/Tools)
• ea-dep in Tools
• lyn in Tools
• gbagfx in Tools

I plan on eventually distributing an all in one "Tools" package to make this a bit easier but right now I'm still messing with everything all the time and updating the packing to go with it would be impractical.

File extensions conventions

Because of make rules and also consistency, I am defining rules for what extension corresponds to what file type:

File type	Extension	Can generate	Can be generated from	Notes
Event Source	.event	-	.csv+.nmm; .tmx; .o...	events generated from .o have full extension .lyn.event.
Compressed Binary	.lz	-	any	generated .lz don't lose original extension (.4bpp => 4bpp.lz).
Arbitrary Binary	.bin	-	-	-
Generated Binary	.dmp	-	.o; .tmx; .png (portrait), .fetxt	-
GBA Tile Graphics	.4bpp	-	.png	-
GBA Palette	.gbapal	-	.png	-
FE Formatted Text	.fetxt	.dmp	.txt (textprocess)	generated dmps have full extension .fetxt.dmp.
Generic Image	.png	.4bpp; .gbapal; .dmp (portrait)	-	portrait .dmps have _mug, _minimug, _frames and _palette postfixes.
ASM Source	.s	.o	-	-
Generated ASM	.asm	-	.c	for reference and debugging C only
C Source	.c	.asm, .o	-	-
Relocatable Object	.o	.lyn.event; .dmp	.s	ELF
Tiled Map	.tmx	.dmp+.event	-	.dmps have _data postfix
Table CSV Sheet	.csv	.event	-	.event generation requires corresponding .nmm
Table NMM	.nmm	.event	-	.event generation requires corresponding .csv

Note: all files don't follow those conventions yet, but this plan is that they eventually will.

Original VBA Credits

Chapters

Prologue IT BEGINS Circles
Ch1 Secret Chapter Leonarth
Ch2 The Bone Hole Zmr
Ch3 Compile Proyect Darr
Ch4 Monkey Business Circles
Ch5 Winter Invasion Alusq
Ch6 Fort of Bad Stan
Ch7 Port of Bad Mystic
Ch8 Yet Another Chapter Colorz
Ch9 Tragic Backstory Klok
Ch10 here you like Men Ross
Ch11 Factory Gold Wan!
Ch12 I felt Sadistic Zmr
Ch13 Coarse, Rough, Irritating Circles
Ch14 Attack on Basement OwainDark/Ardendark/Memesmith
Ch15 The Shark Straits Darr
Ch16 Dead Valley Venno
Ch17 "Slowly" Corrupting Leonarth
Ch18 Island Clash Kirb
Ch19 Lit chapter Kirb
Ch20 Great rivalry Kirb
Ch21 Doot Doot Colorz
Ch22 N i c e B o a t s Kirb
Ch23 Flesh and Bone Alusq
Ch24 River Rush Teraspark
Ch25 Shrine of Meals Alusq
Ch26 Darrman's Lakes Zmr
Ch27 Convenient Lake Kirb
Ch28 Mess.jpg Kirb
Ch29 Let It Be Grey
Ch30 End of All Circles

Mugs

• Zmr56 for Bede, Tye, Jake
• L95 for Void, Celicia, Mark, Tatara
• Coby for Celica
• Ross for Samson
• Alusq for Tim, Tam, Saara, Banana, Mr Bones, Björn, Roshea
• Wan for Arve
• Tera for Evil Florina, Doowile
• Klok for Edge
• Monkeybard for Doot, Maeda, Kaga
• Darrman for Zigludo, Tiki
• blueeyedman24 for Gwendy
• Kirb for Edgeworth, Grit, Marf (edited from Didja Redo's version)
• Crazycolorz for Prine
• Astelaine for Not Arch

Maps

Prologue IT BEGINS Circles
Ch1 Secret Chapter Leonarth
Ch2 The Bone Hole Zmr
Ch3 Compile Proyect Darr
Ch4 Monkey Business Aurawolf
Ch5 Winter Invasion Alusq
Ch6 Fort of Bad Stan
Ch7 Port of Bad Mystic
Ch8 Yet Another Chapter Colorz
Ch9 Tragic Backstory Klok
Ch10 here you like Men Klok
Ch11 Factory Gold Wan!
Ch12 I felt Sadistic Zmr
Ch13 Coarse, Rough, Irritating Circles
Ch14 Attack on Basement OwainDark/Ardendark/Memesmith
Ch15 The Shark Straits Bishop Seva
Ch16 Dead Valley Venno
Ch17 "Slowly" Corrupting Leonarth
Ch18 Island Clash Kirb
Ch19 Lit chapter Kirb
Ch20 Great rivalry Kirb
Ch21 Doot Doot Bishop Seva
Ch22 N i c e B o a t s Aurawolf
Ch23 Flesh and Bone Alusq
Ch24 River Rush Teraspark
Ch25 Shrine of Meals Alusq
Ch26 Darrman's Lakes Zmr
Ch27 Convenient Lake Primefusion
Ch28 Mess.jpg Kirb
Ch29 Let It Be Grey
Ch30 End of All Circles

Writing

• MCProductions (text)
• Darrman (formatting)

Music

• Alusq
• Ash

General Tools

• Nintenlord
• Crazycolorz
• Circles

Hax

• Leonarth
• Stan
• Teq
• Circles
• Colorz
• so many

Misc Graphics

• Circles
• Seva
• Wulfos
• Glacoe
• Paterick
• Teraspark
• Monkeybard
• Black Mage
• Alusq