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3 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
easyaspi314
f3a164076d Cut VRAM usage roughly in half
Memory manufacturers and AAA game studios hate her!

With some clever rearranging, PTGB now uses only 36 KiB of the 64 KiB
BG VRAM. This means the remaining 28 KiB is free to use in the future.

Caveats: The flex tileset must not use more that 6 KiB. There is a check
for it added.

VRAM Map
  06000000 - 06000800 ( 2K): Eternal backdrop and textbox tileset
  06000800 - 06002000 ( 6K): Flex BG tileset
  06002000 - 06002400 ( 2K): BG0: Backdrop tilemap
  06002800 - 06003000 ( 2K): BG1: Flex BG tilemap
  06003000 - 06003800 ( 2K): BG2: Textbox tilemap
  06003800 - 06004000 ( 2K): BG3: Text tilemap
  06004000 -~06009000 (20K): Text rendering bitmap
  06009000 - 06010000 (28K): Free work RAM
  06010000 - 06018000 (32K): Sprite tileset

Additionally:
- Explicitly clear VRAM on boot
- Dirty workaround to fix box drawing buffer overflow.
- Flex backgrounds use a table instead of a huge switch statement
- Textbox tile IDs are now const u16[] instead of int[]
2026-07-02 16:20:19 -04:00
easyaspi314
e4ef25e20e Compress the graphics (mostly), fix potential vram memcpy issue
This greatly decreases the ROM size, from 245 KB to 198 KB with no visual
changes (that I am aware of)

Changes:
- Enable compression on every graphic but the Pokemon sprites (which are
  too large for the GBA to decompress).
- Change grit from emitting .s files to .c files so GCC can strip unused
  palettes and maps
- Fix the empty tiles
- Trim down the font to skip 00-1F and 80-FF which were all zeroes
  - needs a slight workaround because the Pokemon name display was printing
    an invisible FF byte
- Switch memcpy to tonccpy which is vram safe
- Limit palette sizes.

Signed-off-by: easyaspi314 <6258309+easyaspi314@users.noreply.github.com>
2025-01-17 19:32:48 -05:00
The Gears of Progress
1ec09842ad Updating tons of graphics 2024-08-19 14:47:29 -04:00