- Hi, Evan Bowman. Your game is amazing – your wonderfully stylised art and sound direction for this game is unmatched on the GBA. Even the Bitstream games didn't come close to innovating GBA look and feel to the level you've achieved with your games. And all this running on my humble Gameboy Micro too!
I did however, want to find a way to get rumble working on Skyland using an EZ-Flash Omega DE though if you can help please? (doesn't seem to work atm). Whatever you implemented on BlindJump was the way – because that does work directly on device using the Omega DE.
If this is possible it'd be very appreciated - rumble would fit this game so well, and I'm a little bit obsessed with getting rumble working on every GBA game I can. These days there are quite a few more than people might think and I'd LOVE to add Skyland to the list (probably works already but I'm doing something wrong - it already works on mGBA on a Miyoo Mini for instance):
- Goodboy Galaxy
- Drill Dozer
- Pokemon Pinball
- Warioland 4
- Apotris
- Final Fight One
- BlindJump
- Mario and Luigi SS
- Warioware Twisted
- Butano Fighter
- Super Mario 3
- Chessmaster
- Summoner Story 3 (J)
(this list is a little bit in the order of how well/much the rumble is implemented.
Anyway thanks again for your kind work.
Hi! Thank you for your nice comment! I can work on supporting cartridge rumble, I already know why it doesn't work. In mGBA and the miyoo mini, the rumble does work, as you noted, because Skyland supports GameCube controller rumble when played on a gameboy player attachment for the GC, which mgba emulates.
Unfortunately I don't have an EZ-Flash cartridge, although I do have an insideGadgets rumble cart. It takes forever to flash code to it, which is the main reason I haven't added support for it yet -- my method of working on projects usually involves making small incremental tweaks until I like the result, and it takes 10 minutes to flash this cartridge, which kills my motivation to do it :) I will put it on the todo list! To be honest, the existing rumble support could use some more work. A couple of years ago, when I first added rumble support, I just made the controller rumble whenever the screen shakes visually in the game, but I could work out something much nicer feeling if I find some time to do it.
Hi Evan, and thank you for the reply. that sounds great! I guess I just wanted to really convey that there are some of us who really appreciate good rumble in a game, so I'm happy to hear it'll go on the list – and I'll be very much looking forward to it – both on OG hardware and the Miyoo (actually, now the RG28XX, which blows the Miyoo out the window, and is kinda the ultimate modern GB Micro! – for me anyway).
Best wish for all your projects.