AGI to the GBA

DragonRose · Wed 28/01/2004 15:47:46

Mmm.. Acronymlicious.

Anyway, a guy named Brian Provacino has developed an emulator for the Game Boy Advance that plays old AGI games! You need to get Flash Cards and a reader, but you can download the emulated games from his website. He's got the first four KQ's, LSL1, SQ 1 and 2, and a whole bunch more.

He's even got a PC game boy emulator, so you can download PC games emulated for Gameboy to play on your PC. That just kind of hurts my brain, though.

Privateer Puddin' · Wed 28/01/2004 15:52:45

hows does typing work? :|

Esseb · Wed 28/01/2004 16:02:45

With no links provided I'll have to resort to google. You evil harridan.

Edit: Chrille to the rescue: http://www.bripro.com/gbagi/index.php

Edit2:

Hell yeah:

The pictures would be better if I had either the GBA:SP, the Afterburner kit or simply a better lit room.

Chicky · Wed 28/01/2004 18:27:56

Am i just being stupid or is there no information what soever of how you get these things to work.

Ive checked the site and i cant find anything ... any help

-a chicken

*edit* err forget i just said that

DragonRose · Wed 28/01/2004 18:57:09

Oops. Sorry about forgetting the link. I was on my way out the door.

rodekill · Wed 28/01/2004 19:49:15

Holy crap.
Now someone please explain how to jam that stuff into the GBA.

Def@somewhereelse · Wed 28/01/2004 20:06:35

First you turn the AGI game into a Gameboy
Advance ROM. Then you write the game to
a rewriteable GBA cartridge (known as a flash
cart).

Esseb · Wed 28/01/2004 20:28:42

What jd said.

You can find reviews of various flash linkers/carts here, there are more than these around though, check out the forum there for "what flash linker should I buy" threads, there's loads:
http://www.gbadev.org/hardware.php

Before you go on a buying splurge you could test the thing on an emulator. Download the program and get hold of some agi game and compile a gba rom. Name it with a bin or gba extension. I.e. Larry.bin. Then download Visual Boy Advance for instance from here:
http://www.gbadev.org/tools.php?section=emulator

It has a few quirks at the moment, I couldn't finish the game in the last picture because not all verbs and subjects I needed showed up in the word lists. Could just be because it's an unprofessional game of course.

LordHart · Wed 28/01/2004 20:58:10

When the hell did Brian start this? I don't remember him announcing it before...

Robert Eric · Thu 29/01/2004 01:50:01

Many years ago. Possibly before he started creating SCI Studio. Speaking of SCI Studio...WHERE THE FUCK IS IT? I'm sorry for being so impatient, but he hasn't even said anything about it for over a year. I'd like to at least know if he's still developing it.

LordHart · Thu 29/01/2004 02:37:41

I know, SS4 was supposed be out at the end of last year wasn't it?

Snake · Thu 29/01/2004 03:50:58

That's some damned sweet shit! If they did that for NES roms, I'd definately buy a GBA then!

--Snake

BerserkerTails · Thu 29/01/2004 05:13:01

Snake... I'm pretty sure they have. Check www.zophar.net for a list of every single emulator out there.

Checked.. Yup.

http://www.zophar.net/consoles/gameboy.html

All the emulators currently out for GBA, minus a few (Like the AGI one).

Esseb · Thu 29/01/2004 12:24:57

NES emulators for the AGB have been out for ages snake.

Edit: As Berserker pointed out.

Snake · Fri 30/01/2004 03:50:19

Awesome! Thanks Tails...

Yeah, I've never checked for anything like that before. It's cool to know anyway, since I already got a GBC. So what do I need again? Something called a flash card?

--Snake

Brian Provinciano · Fri 30/01/2004 08:03:42

Hi! Snake mentioned there were some questions over there that needed answering, so here I am

First off, head over to http://www.bripro.com/gbagi/download.php and get version 1.2 of the injection utility. It fixes a bug that got introduced when I converted my console injection utility to a GUI version, which in turn, fixes the errors in the words list. Now you can complete LSL1 and the other games.

Next, I started this quite some time ago, just didn't annouce it to more than a handful of people. That's been my new trend, to keep projects pretty quiet until they are near completion, as to let myself relax, and not put you all through the agony of waiting for so long. Plus it's a nice surprise when released.

Esseb: Cool pictures! I can't take any myself, since I don't have a digital camera, so nice work! I stuck my GBA on a flatbed scanner and they turned out about the same. When I increased the brightness for the screen, the gameboy itself got too bight and distorted. Guess we both need SPs

rodekill, oversizedchicken :
"Now someone please explain how to jam that stuff into the GBA." There's documentation on the site and such, but basically, all you need to do is download the first file on the downloads page (GBAGI + Injector 1.2), then select the filename to save it as (ie. games.gba), then "Add Game", select the games you want to add, and click "Build ROM".

Privateer Puddin':
"hows does typing work? :| "
http://www.bripro.com/gbagi/docs/textinput.html

As for flash carts, mention to them when you buy, GBAGI

Maybe I'll get some free stuff, heh

Enjoy!

Privateer Puddin' · Fri 30/01/2004 08:09:15

Yeh, the link wasn't provided in the original post, so i was going by what was said in the first post. Read it when Esseb posted the link

Brian Provinciano · Fri 30/01/2004 08:09:30

Ah... I almost forgot to respond to one more message...

Robert Eric:
"Speaking of SCI Studio...WHERE THE FUCK IS IT? I'm sorry for being so impatient, but he hasn't even said anything about it for over a year. I'd like to at least know if he's still developing it. "

hahaha. Nice.... I do look at this board every so often you know.... In fact, I first found out about it because EVERY site that links to mine (ie. this topic), are logged and I check out who's talking about my software

Anyway, I have been developing it, yes. I've been busy with other stuff too, yes. I've done quite a lot on it since the last web site update. In fact, if you look at the SCI message board, there's loads of info on it's progress, including the decompiler in it. Like I say on my site, some times I get caught up in coding and don't get to update my site a lot, however, the message board always has tons of news not found on the site. http://www.mega-tokyo.com/forum

auhsor · Fri 30/01/2004 09:01:47

Woah this is cool. If i had me a GBA i would seriously consider getting one of those fandangled flash carts.

Also, maybe i didn't look hard enough on the site, or is there no way to get Space Quest 3 and others of that version of AGI to work withought alot more programming?.

Brian Provinciano · Fri 30/01/2004 10:03:13

Space Quest 3 is SCI, so GBAGI can't be modified to run it. It would require a whole different emulator. However, if you ask Vivendi Universal Games really nicely, maybe they'll hire me to make a GBSCI

I did just post Vonster's Space Quest: The Lost Chapter preinjected into a GBA ROM for everyone to download. http://www.bripro.com/gbagi/download.php

AGI to the GBA

Def@somewhereelse

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