tamaboy is a Tamagotchi v1 emulator for Gameboy Advance based on TamaLIB.
The Tamagotchi's Left, Middle and Right buttons are mapped respectively to the d-pad Left, UpDown and Right.
The same buttons are also mapped to Select, A and B respectively. This mapping is intended to be as intuitive as possible to navigate the device's menus.
Normally only the dot-matrix "pixels" are shown on screen. The eight lcd icons normally above and below the dot-matrix display are displayed as on overlay when needed.
Press and hold the start button to show the lcd icon overlay. The overlay is shown for 3 seconds when an icon changes. Press start to dismiss.
NB: Make sure to set the clock or your egg will never hatch. There should be animated arrows on the clock screen.
Do not shut off your Gameboy or your Tamagotchi will die.
- gba-dev from devkitPro
- python3 and pillow (
pip3 install pillow) - a tamagotchi rom (the file named
tama.bfrom the MAME romsettama.zip)
Place the rom in this directory with the name tama.b. This file should be
12288 bytes.
Run the command make.
The otput file tamaboy.gba is a standalone Gameboy Advance multiboot image
that contains the tamaboy emulator and the provided rom file.