[REQUEST] Super Game Boy SDK

celebi23 · Jun 7, 2018

I was wondering if anyone has a copy of the Super Game Boy SDK? Been playing a bunch of Super Game Boy Enhanced games on my SNES Classic and would love to poke around in the SDK.

Turns out there were SDK leftovers in a bunch of the games:

nensondubois said: ↑

There is at least one Super Game Boy SDK that shows off all of the enhancements that are available including the elusive OBJ_TRN SNES object mode. I have done gargantuan research and almost all Japanese developed Game Boy games that use very basic functions contain a listing. One such game developed by a western developer call Jurassic Park the Lost World also has this SDK listing:

http://tcrf.net/The_Lost_World:_Jurassic_Park_(Game_Boy)

If anyone who has worked with developing a Game Boy game compatible with the Super Game Boy, I'm very curious about this SDK material.Also, why did so many games use such basic commands such as a border and some palettes and did not use any of the impressive functions such as SOU_TRN? Costs of development of ROM space and time I'm assuming. The Game Boy Programming manual also states the OBJ_TRN and TEST_EN were "use prohibited". Why is that? All I know is that there are three SGB BIOS revisions not counting the SGB2. Formatting messed up when posting.
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st! · Jun 9, 2018

I don't think anything like this exists. As you noticed SGB has it's own chapter in manual and I guess it's quite well documented.
As for games.. from developer's point of view it's just more work and cartridge space (which was pricey back then) also debugging
was probably challenging too. There are however some nice exceptions like Animaniacs.

windwakr · Jun 9, 2018

There definitely must have been sample code for SGB available to developers, like there were samples for link cable, IR, and such. It would be nice to see more GB(C) dev material surface eventually.

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