Morpheus

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

Looking for the documentation? Here it is!

✔️ 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

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