Version 0.10.0 released!

[gwilymk]

[0.10.0] - 2022/07/31

Version 0.10.0 brings about many new features. As with most agb upgrades, you will need to update your gba.ld and gba_mb.ld files which you can find in the template repo. We would also recommend copying the [profile.dev] and [profile.release] sections from Cargo.toml if you don't have these values already.

Added

• Hyperspace roll, a new game built for the GMTK Game Jam 2022 using agb. The source code can be found in the examples directory.
• Started using GitHub discussions as a forum
• Many functions previously undocumented are now documented
• Z-Ordering of sprites - you can now change the render order of sprites rather than it just being defined by the order in which they appear in object memory
• 32kHz audio. Probably the best sound quality you'll get out of the hardware, but uses a lot of ROM space
• Transparent sprite support with aseprite
• You can now write tests for projects depending on agb
• Very basic font rendering - looking for feedback, this API is far from stable
• Faster implementation of memcpy and memset thanks to the agbabi crate which provide a big performance boost for any project using agb
• If you wish, you can now optionally do dynamic memory allocation to IWRAM instead of only EWRAM
• You can now use 64x64px sprites
• You can now configure the background size for tiled backgrounds
• It is possible to create 'dynamic tiles' for backgrounds. These are tiles which are defined at runtime
• Random number generator in agb::rng

Changed

• Audio system optimisations - reduced CPU usage by more than 50%
• Background tiles are now removed from Video RAM during commit() if they are no longer used rather than immediately reducing flickering
• Improved the README for both the main agb crate and the template
• The template now builds with optimisations in debug mode and debug symbols in release mode
• Added #[must_use] to many of the places it is needed
• All subcrates get released at once, so versions are kept in lockstep
• A few methods accepting Num<..> have been changed to accept impl Into<Num<..>> to make them easier to use

Removed

• The ability to use timer0 and timer1 through the timer module. This was done in order to fully support 32kHz audio

Fixed

• Sprite data is now correctly aligned so fast copies will always work
• A few methods which should really be internal have had pub removed
• The crate now compiles (but does not run) doctests in CI which pointed out a large number of non-compiling examples