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Morpheus

An experimental Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS game engine written in modern C++

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✔️ Features

  • Regular/Affine Sprite (or OBJ) and Regular (or Text) Background support

  • Larger “streaming” background support up to 512 tiles by 512 tiles (or 4096 px by 4096 px)

  • Cross-platform “Ani” sprite animation engine

  • CMake integration

  • Basic libtonc/libnds Text API implemented in addition to an experimental cross-platform “Expression” text API supporting ASCII or UTF8 custom fonts manually created or generated from the generate_font.py buildtools

  • GBA multiplayer-mode serial communication

  • MaxMod sfx and module support

  • 2D hardware blending, mosaic, and windowing support

  • Save manager supporting DS DLDI, GBA SRAM, and GBA 64kb/128kb FLASH saves

  • External Palette support on the DS for Sprites and Backgrounds

  • Several Python 3 scripts to assist with asset management and the build process

  • Doxygen and sphinx documentation

🏗️ Work in Progress (WIP)

  • Reworking puzzler test game to support newer API, and creating the Hayai test game (in progress)

  • Affine Background and TextBase support (in progress)

  • Background animation support (in progress)

  • DS wifi support (not yet started)

⚠️ Broken and currently postponed

  • GBA EEPROM save support

Need Help? Want to show off what you’re making? Join the Discord!

Tutorials

API Documentation