Here is a list of resources to help you with your GB Studio development. This list will be updated periodically. If you know of something that should be added to the list, please Contact Us.
We have an Itch page! Tutorials and Templates built by us can be found, along with collections of other assets made for GB Studio.
GB Studio 3.0 and GBVM
GBVM is the heart of GB Studio 3.0. All visual code is first built into GBVM, then compiled into the ROM. GBVM can also be directly used with the [GBVM Script] event. Documentation for GBVM is still in progress, but in the meantime you can check out these links to try things out:
The list of all available GBVM commands can be found here: https://github.com/chrismaltby/gbvm/blob/master/include/vm.i
Examples uses of GBVM code can be found here: https://github.com/chrismaltby/gbvm/tree/master/examples
GB Studio 2.0 Beta Support
Development for GB Studio 2.0 has officially ended. Many projects that were far in development cannot be migrated to 3.0 easily. In that case you’ll need to continue with 2.0. Most of the tools listed will work with 2.0, but these two links are the most valuable:
The docs for the GB Studio 2.0 Beta are available at https://develop.gbstudio.dev/docs/
The latest development build of GB Studio can be downloaded at https://github.com/chrismaltby/gb-studio/tree/v2beta#beta-builds
Game Boy Flash Carts
0xbbbbbr made a comprehensive list of cart options. Items are accurate as of August 2022 and may be updated in the future.
Pixel Art Apps
Calculators
Music Tools/Apps
Asset Collections
Generators
Cheat Sheet
Pixel Art Apps
Animated Sprite Editor, great for many types of pixel art | |
Free Windows based editor | |
“Old School” styled editor | |
Browser based pixel art editor | |
Free and open source image editor | |
iPad/iOS App, with macOS and Windows apps as well | |
Tile editor, great for making tilesets | |
Open source painting program | |
Browser based photo editor | |
GraphicsGale | Free Pixel animation tool for Windows |
Tilesetter | Free* cross platform tool for creating tilesets. (*paid version has more features) |
| Sprite Fusion | Free web based tilemap editor |
Calculators
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Checks the Tile Count for a PNG image | |
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Calculates the maximum dimension you can make in GB Studio 2.0 + |
Music Tools/Apps
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Windows and macOS Music Tracker | |
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Windows music tracker | |
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Clone of the classic Amiga tracker, Windows and macOS | |
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Web based music tracker | |
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Tracker that will be integrated into a future release of GB Studio | |
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Converts Famitracker text export into OpenMTP paste data | |
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Converts MIDI files to GB Studio read mod files (Work In Progress) | |
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Tools for Game Boy Music from Trominal |
Asset Collections
GB Studio Assets on Itch | Collection of assets made for GB Studio on Itch.io |
Free set of fonts for GB Studio | |
| Community Assets (DeerTears Collection) | Contains sprites, music, fonts and more. |
Free set of pixel fonts | |
| Free tiles and NPC sprites from Kenney NL | |
BitFont Maker | Tool for making pixel font, web based |
GB Studio Plugin Database | Collection of Plugins and tools for GB Studio. |
Generators
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Generates a long text “crawl” PNG optimized for GB Studio | |
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Localization tool for non-latin characters | |
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Generates random sprites and avatars | |
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Generates a tile sheet from a bitmap | |
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Creates customizable sprites and animations | |
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Converts TTF fonts into GB Studio ready PNG ASCII | |
midi2sfx | Converts MIDI data to a pastable Sound Effect event |