[Two New Homebrew LCD Games (Game & Watch)]

On 7/9/2021 at 4:46 PM, trevorjay said:

SLYT: Bride on the New Game & Watch

 

It took me awhile to get together everything I needed to unlock and flash my 2020 Game & Watch but I have to say that this is just incredible work. Every game I've tried has worked flawlessly with the ported emulator. The practically instant on experience is fantastic and something really is recaptured by playing these games at their original size and form factor.

 

The shrinker is especially impressive, including major tweaks and optimisations for practically every game it recognises (including "Bride")! @brice the community truly owes you for such amazing preservation efforts.

 

I can't say how much I appreciate you for adding "Bride" to the list of titles supported by the shrinker. To see it nestled between "Balloon Fight" and "Crab Grab" is surreal in the best way. If there's anything we can do to support what you're doing, please let us know!

Great ! It's really great that you can enjoy playing Bride on this device.

I have been requested to write a tutorial to explain LCD-Game-Shrinker usage. I don't know yet how to proceed...

Eventually, can I use 'bride' to illustrate it ?

Is there a link to 'Bride' archive file or can I copy it on github ?

Brice

[Two New Homebrew LCD Games (Game & Watch)]

[Two New Homebrew LCD Games (Game & Watch)]

 

The emulator engine is derived from MAME SM510 driver and simplified/optimized to be fit on smaller processor without OS ( bare metal).

It's open source and written in C and should emulate all single screen G&W, Konami, Tiger, Elektronika LCD handheld and of course Bride.

https://github.com/bzhxx/LCD-Game-Emulator

 

Artworks and vector graphics are adapted to match the target and to add graphic effects (mix gradient, fan art, drop shadow on segments).

It's open source Python script parsing artwork layout default.lay, hh_sm510.cpp and driving Inkscape.

A new ROM file is generated including shrinked background and segments, keys mapping, buzzer/melody,cpu id, video mode.

https://github.com/bzhxx/LCD-Game-Shrinker

 

Finally, it has been ported on STM32 platform like seen on the previous video.

https://github.com/bzhxx/game-and-watch-retro-go

 

[Two New Homebrew LCD Games (Game & Watch)]

[Two New Homebrew LCD Games (Game & Watch)]

hello,

It’s great to receive such answer from you.

This SM510 emulator will run on any STM32 handheld device (like Game & Watch 35th Anniversary).

The emulator source code will be open source.

The ROM files shall be shrinked and customized to fit in the small memory and downscaled to match the LCD resolution.

Brice

[Two New Homebrew LCD Games (Game & Watch)]

Hello,

that’s an amazing thing !

On my side, I just complete the adaptation of MAME lcd handheld emulator for pocket size device (STM32).

It can be really nice if I can use ’Bride’ as a reference and use it for tutorials.

Please, is it possible to use it and modify it for this purpose ?

regards,

Brice