Just curious 🙂

Bevy is a game engine written in Rust. It targets regular PCs, but thanks to it modularity, it's possible to port it to unusual platforms. These examples replaced the rendering with the one specific to GBA.

Post from @bushRAT in Discord:

Thanks to the ever growing support for no_std in Bevy, I'm now able to use Bevy on the GameBoy Advance! Using the current main branch (which will be included for 0.16!) you can use a crate like agb (and some boilerplate I'm hiding) to write GameBoy Advance games almost as easily as you would for any other Bevy platform. Systems, plugins, resources, queries, the gamepad input API, it all just works. See the attached ROM if you have a GameBoy Advance emulator handy, but I recommend the MGBA emulator as it can also show debug logs (yes, even all the logging just works)

Links to GBA files:

• From 1 GIF.
• From 2 GIF

If you have a real GBA or an FPGA console, the author will appreciate if you try :)

Repository: https://github.com/bushrat011899/bevy_agb_test

A long time ago, I owned a Motorola Droid 4 and Photon Q. Feeling so nostalgic now 🙂

The keyboard on this one is much better - it's full-sized, and the slider mechanism feels quite robust.

If you use https://es-de.org/, which themes do you like the most?

I was hoping this update would enable pure black mode (which looks awesome on the borderless display of the black model). But it turns out that feature was added in Android 14 😢

I really wish retro handhelds were supported by FOSS Android distros like LineageOS.

Still, I'm quite happy with the update. This time I decided to try Molla launcher and ES-DE 🙂

I used buttons for the Odin 2 Mini from SakuraRetroModding on Etsy. They fit without any modifications, except that the original buttons are glued to the membrane. Thankfully, it's easy to unglue them by cutting through the glue with nails.

Here is how the unglue process looks like. The video is for RP5, but the approach is the same for the Mini.

The new buttons are quieter, have a lower profile, and feel similar to an Xbox controller overall. I'm really happy with the mod!

The video showcases running this porn on a real Dreamcast without any mods from CD.

It's a very cool hack, highly recommend!

It lets you switch between 4 different characters on the map screen. Each one have unique physics and a special move. Also there is one additional unlockable character.

Bosses also very interesting. Each have unique mechanics. They are way harder then the original, but not super difficult.

What I didn't like is that many surfaces are slippery. It makes the game feel a bit unfair sometimes.

Retroachievements for this game are fine, but I disliked the speedrun and deathless one.

Here is the link to the patch.

It's a port of the original Super Mario Bros from the NES to the Game Boy Color. The physics feel very nice, and I like how the sprites are adapted.

The port also extends the game. After the 8 original worlds, Quest B adds 8 more with new enemies, mechanics, and even bosses! I had so much fun playing it.

Also, the game is FOSS: https://github.com/Mico27/SuperMarioBrosMini

My wife is looking for a portable device primarily for modeling in Blender and optionally for drawing in Krita. So we looking for something with a GNU/Linux support from manufacturer.

We considered https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-InfinityFlex-14-Gen1, it looks nice, but maybe you have other suggestions? Do you have experience with convertibles, how convenient is to draw on them?

We also considered https://earth.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite for drawing and a separate device for Blender, but having two devices might not be convenient...