im copying this from a thread in gbjam 12 (it's urgent):
basically im tryna use some GBVM in GB Studio to save my sanity from 20 different camera move events. however... the documentation says the 1st argument to vm_camera_move_to is a single argument (IDX)... for x AND y.
...what???
ive tried searching for similar commands, yet there seems to be NOTHING related to this with an example (what is this documentation bro)
Try putting a Camera Move To event in your game and then running it in debug mode. When you pause it, you can see the GBVM hidden under the "blocks" of code.
So I have a question that I can’t seem to find a proper answer for. I searched it up and got a lot of conflicting results, so I wanted to ask, are we allowed to sell any of the games we make in GB Studio or is this for more personal games? I know that we can put them up for free and all, but what about selling them?
Yes, you can do whatever you want with the games you make :-) Some people sell them here on Itch.io, I’ve seen some on Steam and there’s even some on the Nintendo Switch!!
Now I've made a change to my music file, and the build is being canceled whenever I try to run or export it. This wasn't happening before in version 4.1.2, but now I can't run the game. I've tried clearing the cache and everything.
Thanks Levi! I've just released 4.1.3 which includes a few more bug fixes and make sure this error appears correctly again :-) The error message now also includes a link that you click to jump to the scene that has the missing background
hola soy Nahu soy un desarrollador Uruguayo de 12 años con bastantes conocimientos en tecnologia, y te vengo a explicar el porque no se podria hacer tu idea.
El brick game no tiene entrada para memoria o "ROMs (como quieras llamarle) o sea, si lograras de alguna manera crear un juego, no lo podria correr
Ademas hay muy poca informacion (casi nula) sobre el brick game lo que le resultaria un problema a alguien que quisiera hacer tu idea.
(Igualmante voy a tratar de hacer algo para el brick game, voy a intentar).
gracias, a si que es imposible porque la informacion del brick game es escasa y el tamaño de la rom es casi nulo, entiendo, pero podria ser una replica modificable, como mario maker 2 que no usa la rom de smw, si no un juego creado desde cero y podrias crear minijuegos con cubitos y sin una rom del brick game, a si que de esa forma es posible pero no real (gb studio si es real xddd incluso funciona en emuladores de game boy)
very goooooooooooooooooooood, thanks for add gooooooooooodextremeeeeeeemememm mooodes, game boy color and gb printer, thanks you, but make more simple the goombas and koopas ai, i use gb studio and i make mario games and more platformer games, thaaaaaaaaaankyouuuuuuuuy iam from Argentina
There shouldn't be any change with multi-part dialogue events with this update. Do you have an example project that's working differently between 4.1 and previous versions? If so could you share at https://github.com/chrismaltby/gb-studio/issues Thanks
Hi Chris. Am trying to get this booting up on Macbook Pro 14" 2021 M1, running macOS Ventura. V 4.0.2 Apple Silicon is not opening and becomes unresponsive!
I just downloaded this recently to toy around in it and I'm immediately impressed. I can't imagine how hard it must have been to create such a tool all while making it fluent and easy to understand for the user!
Thanks! I definitely try to make the app as easy to use as I can, it’s a challenge for sure and I still think there’s a long way to go but I’m glad you appreciate the effort :-)
The original Game Boy unfortunately doesn't run as fast as the Game Boy Color. You may need to remove some scripts or actors to get it to run the way you want it to.
Thank you very much for keeping this updated - I was surprised when I finally opened the setup file again after over a year to find-out there was an update just less than a month ago. ;) ~KC
I don't mean to insult your intelligence, but without specifics I just have to explain all the basics. I recommend, if you don't have an artist handy and you need to make your own assets, getting an art software that is good for pixel art (Aseprite is what I use). You can also check check out the Community Assets repository. You can just go into your project folder once it's created and put .png files into the appropriate places in your project's "assets" folder.
I'm assuming you can run the installer and find the program. Once it's open, There are three templates you can choose from. If you don't want to repurpose their prebuilt example games then I suggest choosing the blank template. Change the project name to whatever you want and click "Create Project." The Studio points you to a "+" sign in the top left of the UI. Click that and then click the empty space in the middle, that will create your first scene.
After that it's kind of up to you. GB Studio is very user friendly and does a lot for you automagically. For more functionality than just having collision, unresponsive NPCs, and a moving player character in a white void, you'll need to use programming. GB Studio uses drag & drop blocks, no language knowledge really required. There's even a handy dandy search bar so if they have it, you can find it pretty quickly.
Checking the docs for GB Studio would be a good start if you need specific explainers for particular functions/aspects for the program, it's here: https://www.gbstudio.dev/docs/.
GB Studio Lab has some tutorials I found useful for more advanced stuff you'll need to learn actual scripting language for, it's not too bad though. I believe you can also make custom plugins in Typescript and assembly language, though don't quote me on that.
For even more you can check out projects and templates others have done that you can download directly and open in the Studio. I just completed a basic Blackjack minigame that could help you (if you can make sense of my spaghetticode) and it's on my page here on itch.io, it's free unless you feel like donating. If you need help with programming, I'm sure I can answer, but the internet is full of people much smarter than me.
Hi Levi, do you mind sharing a screenshot of the script you’re using to do the increment + wrap around? If you’ve not tried already the official GB Studio Discord is a great place to chat with other devs to solve problems like this :-)
This morning, I tried running my project, and I got bombarded with a bunch of errors saying that some globals were undefined. No matter what I did, nothing fixed it. To make sure I wasn't crazy, I made a fresh new project and didn't alter it at all. Same exact batch of errors.
Hi L & R Buttons, that's very strange, could you maybe try clicking "Build Options" and selecting "Empty Build Cache" from the menu, and trying to build again? I'm wondering if it's compiled a file incorrectly and is stuck using a cached version of that file for some reason.
The other thing you could try is going into your temporary folder (which you can find in the application preferences)
If you open that folder it will contain "_gbsbuild", "_gbstools", and "_gbscache". Try deleting all three of these folders, restarting GB Studio and trying to build again.
Please let me know if either of these methods fix the issue for you as it will help me track down what could have happened to prevent the problem for others in the future.
Perfect, thanks for confirming! I'm going to try updating the app to clear the cache automatically if a build fails like this, that way it would have failed the first time still but would have starting working the next rebuild.
Oh, and I don't know if you're open to suggestions, but for the game I'm making, I want to be able to craft items from stuff in the player's inventory. I could probably find a way to do it myself, but I'd appreciate if there was a function built in for simplicity's sake.
Hi Gerold55, I would definitely like to, I even bought a Raspberry Pi specifically for this. Unfortunately I’m being held up by something outside of my control at the moment. You can follow the progress here https://github.com/chrismaltby/gb-studio/issues/1406
after the update i created a new project and was having fun. After some hours, an error occured on the debug console. I tried to discover what the problem was. I discovered it was a scene. I click on that scene and my GBstudio window goes white, i saved bc i was worried i would lose all my work. I close GBstudio. I re-open GBstudio, click on my project and it's closing itself. Fix your thing GBstudio
the error on the debug console was
TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'script')
Hi SuperOddone, that's very strange. Would you be happy sharing your project file with me? I could have a look what happened and see if I can fix the project so it opens again (and update the app to prevent the problem happening again). If you email it to my first name DOT my last name @ gmail.com (c***s.m****y@gmail.com) I'll see what I can do!
I'm the creator and main developer, and made the very first version by myself, the project is open source though so anyone can volunteer to improve it. There's been 55 contributors to the project so far! For example Pau who among other things wrote the entire music editor, and Toxa who was instrumental in the engine rewrite introducing GBVM that happened in v3.0.0.
The newest version gives me this error whenever I try to run or export my game, and I don't know how to fix it.
Error: Compiling failed with error "Error: Script was not stack neutral! Stack shrank by 1". {"scene":"Final Boss","scriptType":"actor","actor":"Boss"}
Hi Levi, is there any chance you can share an image of the script where you were seeing this problem? The rnd function shouldn't have been causing this problem so I'd like to understand so I can fix it :-) The plan is to eventually remove "Math Functions" (with a migration so you won't need to do anything)
2023-11-22 15:28:29> RegistryService: TryGetRegKey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\ClickToRun\Configuration\ProductReleaseIds exists. Data - ProPlus2019Retail"
and goes on and on about apps like Teams not being installed, when they are. Regardless of how strange this is, it's stranger to find that upon running the installer, it absolutely nuked my GB Studio folder. Everything I had is gone.
Hmm, I think it might be related to this issue with Squirrel & Teams, unfortunately it’s not anything I’m able to control https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows/issues/1853 I think you may need to use the No Installer version instead
Thanks, I can verify the portable version works fine. Unfortunately, all my work, reference shots and design documents are gone since I had everything inside the folder -_-
It's fine, don't worry. I usually have backups but have been so neck-deep into work lately I didn't remember doing one before installing the new version (I'm a simple guy; I see GB Studio updates, I download and install). I'm not concerned in regards to project files, since most of what I had were placeholders to test movement routines and collisions. The issue is really the references since they were largely my own (bitmap mockups, etc) and while I can resume this at any time, it'll be double work for that. Oh well.
In any case, not trying to be a downer. GB Studio is amazing, please keep up the great work.
Hi! I don't have anything that runs Chrome OS sorry :-( I've heard Chrome OS lets you run Linux applications though, maybe those versions can work for you?
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Are you looking to expand to make GBA games?
I don't know. The Game Boy Advance is a bit more—how do I say it?—advanced than the original Game Boy and the Game Boy Color.
Nice pun
im copying this from a thread in gbjam 12 (it's urgent):
basically im tryna use some GBVM in GB Studio to save my sanity from 20 different camera move events. however... the documentation says the 1st argument to vm_camera_move_to is a single argument (IDX)... for x AND y.
...what???
ive tried searching for similar commands, yet there seems to be NOTHING related to this with an example (what is this documentation bro)
how am i meant to pass 2 arguments in 1??
help
Try putting a Camera Move To event in your game and then running it in debug mode. When you pause it, you can see the GBVM hidden under the "blocks" of code.
So I have a question that I can’t seem to find a proper answer for. I searched it up and got a lot of conflicting results, so I wanted to ask, are we allowed to sell any of the games we make in GB Studio or is this for more personal games? I know that we can put them up for free and all, but what about selling them?
Yes, you can do whatever you want with the games you make :-) Some people sell them here on Itch.io, I’ve seen some on Steam and there’s even some on the Nintendo Switch!!
Now I've made a change to my music file, and the build is being canceled whenever I try to run or export it. This wasn't happening before in version 4.1.2, but now I can't run the game. I've tried clearing the cache and everything.
I switched back to 4.1.1 and realized why my game kept being canceled. It didn't show me the error until I switched back to 4.1.1.
The problem was that there was no background assigned to one of my scenes. I've posted the issue on GitHub.
Thanks Levi! I've just released 4.1.3 which includes a few more bug fixes and make sure this error appears correctly again :-) The error message now also includes a link that you click to jump to the scene that has the missing background
make a version for brick game iam from argentinaa
hola soy Nahu soy un desarrollador Uruguayo de 12 años con bastantes conocimientos en tecnologia, y te vengo a explicar el porque no se podria hacer tu idea.
El brick game no tiene entrada para memoria o "ROMs (como quieras llamarle) o sea, si lograras de alguna manera crear un juego, no lo podria correr
Ademas hay muy poca informacion (casi nula) sobre el brick game lo que le resultaria un problema a alguien que quisiera hacer tu idea.
(Igualmante voy a tratar de hacer algo para el brick game, voy a intentar).
gracias, a si que es imposible porque la informacion del brick game es escasa y el tamaño de la rom es casi nulo, entiendo, pero podria ser una replica modificable, como mario maker 2 que no usa la rom de smw, si no un juego creado desde cero y podrias crear minijuegos con cubitos y sin una rom del brick game, a si que de esa forma es posible pero no real (gb studio si es real xddd incluso funciona en emuladores de game boy)
ok voy a tratar
very goooooooooooooooooooood, thanks for add gooooooooooodextremeeeeeeemememm mooodes, game boy color and gb printer, thanks you, but make more simple the goombas and koopas ai, i use gb studio and i make mario games and more platformer games, thaaaaaaaaaankyouuuuuuuuy iam from Argentina
I can't believe how far this project has come,
yes, very required, tag chris malgtby
I hope you will make a version to make GBA games
yes, maybe a OTHER F%%KING MODE OF GB STUDIO WITH OTHER RESOLUTION AND MORE RAM, ROM AND PROCESSOR
Why is there a delay between parts of a multi-part dialogue event now?
There shouldn't be any change with multi-part dialogue events with this update. Do you have an example project that's working differently between 4.1 and previous versions? If so could you share at https://github.com/chrismaltby/gb-studio/issues Thanks
Hi Levi, I believe the issue you were seeing was this one https://github.com/chrismaltby/gb-studio/issues/1571 which should now be fixed in version 4.1.2 :-)
Yes, that was it! Thanks for getting that fixed.
new update sounds soo peak!
I've given my characters personality with their own text sound.
Hi Chris. Am trying to get this booting up on Macbook Pro 14" 2021 M1, running macOS Ventura. V 4.0.2 Apple Silicon is not opening and becomes unresponsive!
I may have been a bit ambitious with all the programs I had running... all working now! Cheers, mate
Ah perfect! I actually do all the development for GB Studio on a 2020 M1 Mac Mini running Ventura so was pretty sure it should have been working!
upgrade to windows 10 bruh.__. (humor do not ban me)
cAN RUN ON GAMEBOY?
maybe using flasher catridges and game boy advance sp 101 for retroilumination and retrocompatibility
bro I did it on a Gameboy with a flash Cambridge for. Wow. Now I can have new games lol
I just downloaded this recently to toy around in it and I'm immediately impressed. I can't imagine how hard it must have been to create such a tool all while making it fluent and easy to understand for the user!
Thanks! I definitely try to make the app as easy to use as I can, it’s a challenge for sure and I still think there’s a long way to go but I’m glad you appreciate the effort :-)
We need to get that monochrome gb to stop lagging and it needs to run fully OK?
The original Game Boy unfortunately doesn't run as fast as the Game Boy Color. You may need to remove some scripts or actors to get it to run the way you want it to.
DevChild in a video says of the gb has minor potence and gbc more potence
Thank you very much for keeping this updated - I was surprised when I finally opened the setup file again after over a year to find-out there was an update just less than a month ago. ;) ~KC
Thank you for creating GB Studio.
I wonder if in a future update you could have tile mirroring for GBC games. It could help to save VRAM space.
Will the bew 4.0 version run okay on an older Mac… say 2015 model
You could launch GB Studio for android just like Godot was launched for android?
I don't own anything that can run Android so it's unlikely, sorry.
I am interested in making a web browser based version but it would be a large project that I can't commit to at the moment.
dooooooooooooont make android, for android make other engine style roblox, game creator or julians editor
how do you even use this?
Do you have a specific thing about GB Studio you're confused about, or are you just confused on how to run and utilize the software in general?
using the software. (making games)
I don't mean to insult your intelligence, but without specifics I just have to explain all the basics. I recommend, if you don't have an artist handy and you need to make your own assets, getting an art software that is good for pixel art (Aseprite is what I use). You can also check check out the Community Assets repository. You can just go into your project folder once it's created and put .png files into the appropriate places in your project's "assets" folder.
I'm assuming you can run the installer and find the program. Once it's open, There are three templates you can choose from. If you don't want to repurpose their prebuilt example games then I suggest choosing the blank template. Change the project name to whatever you want and click "Create Project." The Studio points you to a "+" sign in the top left of the UI. Click that and then click the empty space in the middle, that will create your first scene.
After that it's kind of up to you. GB Studio is very user friendly and does a lot for you automagically. For more functionality than just having collision, unresponsive NPCs, and a moving player character in a white void, you'll need to use programming. GB Studio uses drag & drop blocks, no language knowledge really required. There's even a handy dandy search bar so if they have it, you can find it pretty quickly.
Checking the docs for GB Studio would be a good start if you need specific explainers for particular functions/aspects for the program, it's here: https://www.gbstudio.dev/docs/.
GB Studio Lab has some tutorials I found useful for more advanced stuff you'll need to learn actual scripting language for, it's not too bad though. I believe you can also make custom plugins in Typescript and assembly language, though don't quote me on that.
For even more you can check out projects and templates others have done that you can download directly and open in the Studio. I just completed a basic Blackjack minigame that could help you (if you can make sense of my spaghetticode) and it's on my page here on itch.io, it's free unless you feel like donating. If you need help with programming, I'm sure I can answer, but the internet is full of people much smarter than me.
Hope some of this is helpful :)
i know how to open programs and more but im talking about the software its self and also thx for following me!
That's still very unclear but I hope at least some of what I said was helpful.
search tutorials bruh.__.
Hi Levi, do you mind sharing a screenshot of the script you’re using to do the increment + wrap around? If you’ve not tried already the official GB Studio Discord is a great place to chat with other devs to solve problems like this :-)
I just figured it out. For some reason, there was an extra script in my code that I had put in there by mistake. It's fixed now.
Hi, Chris, make one of NDS
I think you should make one for NDS C_bot, I believe in you! :-)
I thought about it but my programming knowledge is still very limited, I don't know how to make software, only games.
my lenovo ideapad 320 (this be called potato, lenovo stop of making longer names): explodes****
This morning, I tried running my project, and I got bombarded with a bunch of errors saying that some globals were undefined. No matter what I did, nothing fixed it. To make sure I wasn't crazy, I made a fresh new project and didn't alter it at all. Same exact batch of errors.
Like, I don't know what to do, there's so much crap happening.
Hi L & R Buttons, that's very strange, could you maybe try clicking "Build Options" and selecting "Empty Build Cache" from the menu, and trying to build again? I'm wondering if it's compiled a file incorrectly and is stuck using a cached version of that file for some reason.
The other thing you could try is going into your temporary folder (which you can find in the application preferences)
Please let me know if either of these methods fix the issue for you as it will help me track down what could have happened to prevent the problem for others in the future.
Thanks for the help. Yeah, turns out all I had to do was clear the cache.
Perfect, thanks for confirming! I'm going to try updating the app to clear the cache automatically if a build fails like this, that way it would have failed the first time still but would have starting working the next rebuild.
Oh, and I don't know if you're open to suggestions, but for the game I'm making, I want to be able to craft items from stuff in the player's inventory. I could probably find a way to do it myself, but I'd appreciate if there was a function built in for simplicity's sake.
I'm surprised you don't have a build yet for the raspberry pi...
Hi Gerold55, I would definitely like to, I even bought a Raspberry Pi specifically for this. Unfortunately I’m being held up by something outside of my control at the moment. You can follow the progress here https://github.com/chrismaltby/gb-studio/issues/1406
Hi, Chris. Can you help me with something?
When I run my project, I get this error...
No such file or directory
error: can't open build/rom/game.gb:
Warnings:
- No such file or directory
- error: can't open build/rom/game.gb:
That folder should be created automatically when exporting a ROM file, but if you get that error, maybe you should try creating the folder yourself.
Which path to create the folder build/rom/game.gb: ?
after the update i created a new project and was having fun. After some hours, an error occured on the debug console. I tried to discover what the problem was. I discovered it was a scene. I click on that scene and my GBstudio window goes white, i saved bc i was worried i would lose all my work. I close GBstudio. I re-open GBstudio, click on my project and it's closing itself. Fix your thing GBstudio
the error on the debug console was
TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'script')
Hi SuperOddone, that's very strange. Would you be happy sharing your project file with me? I could have a look what happened and see if I can fix the project so it opens again (and update the app to prevent the problem happening again). If you email it to my first name DOT my last name @ gmail.com (c***s.m****y@gmail.com) I'll see what I can do!
ok thanks
Is this made by a team of people or just 1 person
I'm the creator and main developer, and made the very first version by myself, the project is open source though so anyone can volunteer to improve it. There's been 55 contributors to the project so far! For example Pau who among other things wrote the entire music editor, and Toxa who was instrumental in the engine rewrite introducing GBVM that happened in v3.0.0.
If you ever want to help improve the application the code is all available at https://github.com/chrismaltby/gb-studio
Ok
I installed the Ubuntu/debian version, but I don't know how to open it, can someone explain me how to open it?
Hi FamilyCastleCo1, the Ubuntu install instructions can be found here https://www.gbstudio.dev/docs/installation#ubuntu--debian-based-linux If you've managed to install, I think you'll just need to run `gb-studio` in a terminal to open the app
Thank you!
The sounds in my game are messing up the stereo effects in my music and making it sound bad. Is there any way to fix that?
The newest version gives me this error whenever I try to run or export my game, and I don't know how to fix it.
Error: Compiling failed with error "Error: Script was not stack neutral! Stack shrank by 1". {"scene":"Final Boss","scriptType":"actor","actor":"Boss"}Wait, I got it! It's got something to do with the new rnd function. That's why my game won't compile. I need to use the Math Functions event instead.
Hi Levi, is there any chance you can share an image of the script where you were seeing this problem? The rnd function shouldn't have been causing this problem so I'd like to understand so I can fix it :-) The plan is to eventually remove "Math Functions" (with a migration so you won't need to do anything)
Here's the script that's been causing the problem. It worked fine until I upgraded to 4.0.1.
Thanks Levi, I've figured out what was wrong and fixed this in 4.0.2 released today :-) Thanks for raising this
The Win 64-bit GB installer gave me a prompt saying there was an error during instalation and provided a log. The log begins with:
"2023-11-22 15:28:29> Program: Starting Squirrel Updater: --install . --checkInstall --source=PROPLUS --silent --exeName=Teams.exe
2023-11-22 15:28:29> RegistryService: TryGetRegKey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\ClickToRun\Configuration\ProductReleaseIds exists. Data - ProPlus2019Retail"
and goes on and on about apps like Teams not being installed, when they are. Regardless of how strange this is, it's stranger to find that upon running the installer, it absolutely nuked my GB Studio folder. Everything I had is gone.
Hmm, I think it might be related to this issue with Squirrel & Teams, unfortunately it’s not anything I’m able to control https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows/issues/1853 I think you may need to use the No Installer version instead
Thanks, I can verify the portable version works fine. Unfortunately, all my work, reference shots and design documents are gone since I had everything inside the folder -_-
Oof, and you've got no backups? I'm really sorry to hear that, I wish there was something I could do.
I'd highly recommend getting a Github account and setting up version control for your projects.
It's fine, don't worry. I usually have backups but have been so neck-deep into work lately I didn't remember doing one before installing the new version (I'm a simple guy; I see GB Studio updates, I download and install). I'm not concerned in regards to project files, since most of what I had were placeholders to test movement routines and collisions. The issue is really the references since they were largely my own (bitmap mockups, etc) and while I can resume this at any time, it'll be double work for that. Oh well.
In any case, not trying to be a downer. GB Studio is amazing, please keep up the great work.
I've noticed that the left and right audio channels are switched when exporting a ROM file.
Hey Chris, Is possible to download GB Studio on Chorme OS instead of Windows?
Hi! I don't have anything that runs Chrome OS sorry :-( I've heard Chrome OS lets you run Linux applications though, maybe those versions can work for you?
提个建议，如果字符可以有16x16、18x18的和32X32的多种选择就好了，这样创建非拉丁文字的游戏显示效果会更好
Hi, Chris.
I'm working on a platforming fangame, but I'm hesitant to upgrade.
I currently have 3.1 & I was wondering if hauntology's "Platformer+" would be compatible with GBStudio 4.0?
It seems to be working alright for me.
I get an error Error: Error invoking remote method 'get-documents-path': Error: Failed to get 'documents' path