Is Rockboy ever going to be improved?

[muyloco1]

Is there a chance that Rockboy will ever be able to play GBA games or maybe play sound decently?

[funman]

If you volunteer to do it yes, else no.

[muyloco1]

If you volunteer to do it yes, else no.

I see...then I've got a long way to go...

[SpawnHyuuga]

If you don't mind my asking, what language is Rockboy made in? I was thinking about porting VBA or at least some parts of it...

@ Muyloco: I don't think you're fully correct - my Fuze does grafx great; but not so great on sound. My Clip+ did fine with sound, just screen was too small for grafx. Readable, but small.

[muyloco1]

Just the sound for me. I meant GBA games not being able to play.

[SpawnHyuuga]

Well I was comparing sound vs graphics. Their may or may not be a link. VBA (Visual Boy Advance) is a GBA/GBC/GB emulator for windows. A very small size (<1 MB) that I think was built on C. I'm trying to see if it might be possible to port this and replace Rockboy if it got enough work done on it. I believe you can get a source of it, considering multiple developers picked up working on beyond it's 2004 death.

[torne]

VBA is licensed under the GPL and is mostly written in C, though it is compiled as C++ because it uses a few C++ features. Thus, it would be possible to port it, though it would probably be a lot of work.

Very few if any Rockbox targets would be able to run it at an acceptable speed, though.

[muyloco1]

If you could port it to rockboy, I would be so grateful. If you need any help I will try, though I could only do the easy stuff. Like trying the beta, looking up stuff, researching...that stuff. Maybe some other stuff too.

Which MP3 players would be able to play it? Hopefully Sansa fuze.

[saratoga]

I would be so grateful. If you need any help I will try, though I could only do the easy stuff. Like trying the beta, looking up stuff, researching...that stuff. Maybe some other stuff too.

As discussed above, and in your PMs with me, asking people to do things for you is unlikely to get you good results.  If you want to help, I suggest planning to do everything yourself, and then once you've got a port of it going hope other people take interest and work on it with you. 

If you're not that interested, I suggest just buying a gameboy.

Which MP3 players would be able to play it? Hopefully Sansa fuze.

Well we won't know until someone tries, but its got a reasonably fast CPU, so at least very simple games would probably work.  How simple depends on how well optimized the port is.

[muyloco1]

As discussed above, and in your PMs with me, asking people to do things for you is unlikely to get you good results.  If you want to help, I suggest planning to do everything yourself, and then once you've got a port of it going hope other people take interest and work on it with you.

If you're not that interested, I suggest just buying a gameboy.

Well I do have a gameboy, but the point is to play it on my MP3 which is a lot smaller. The reason I'm not doing this by myself is because I don't understand all the instructions. It's not that I'm just stupid when it comes to computers, I can't do this area of them (same with modding games). I offered to help the best I can, but if that's not enough, then I guess a bunch of patience is.

[SpawnHyuuga]

Good to know I'm not the only one here with a Sansa Fuze v2. I'm thoroughly enjoying just GBC games, although the music could be better. I suppose I might try to dig up some tutorials and maybe try porting VBA. I'm not making any promises, I don't know much but this could be an exciting first assignment, considering I'm going into Computers.

[muyloco1]

I'll be excited, but I won't get my hopes up too high just in case