Awesome GBADev^®

Curated resources for the Game Boy Advance

This is a curated list of awesome resources for software development on the Nintendo® Game Boy Advance™, in the spirit of the Awesome List by Sindre Sorhus. It is maintained by Alexander Nicholi.

Community resources

• r/gbadev subreddit – a subreddit with useful links for GBA dev across time
• ##gbadev on Freenode – easily accessible IRC channel for GBA dev
• GBADev on Twitter – a news feed for GBA dev
• FHTK Discord – a Discord guild for discussing fanhacking and GBA dev

Reference materials

• the original GBATek – the ultimate documentation piece for the Game Boy Advance
• GBATek reformatted – GBATek reformatted for easier reading in modern web browsers
• Tonc – a library and tutorial suite for GBA dev

Utilities

• devkitPro – GNU toolchain provider, including devkitARM for the GBA
• gba-toolchain – a CMake-based GBA toolchain
• mGBA – the emulator of choice for the GBA
• VBA-M – a legacy emulator of the GBA
• wav2agb – tool to convert waveform to GBA-compatible assembler files
• agbplay – Curses-based M4A-compatible music playback program
• VGMusicStudio – Music playback program like agbplay, but GUI-based for Windows

Software libraries & frameworks

• Natu – a complete framework for programming the GBA in Nim
• unilib – a C utility library usable across systems, including the GBA
• Krawall – an audio library for the GBA (stable)
• Maxmod – an audio library providing MOD, S3M, XM and IT module playback

Hardware tools & models

• AGS LiPo – LiPo adapter for the Game Boy Advance SP
• AGB LiPo – LiPo adapter for the original Game Boy Advance