README.md

gb-wordyl

A word game for the Nintendo Game Boy / Color, Analogue Pocket and MegaDuck Handheld and Laptops!

This is a re-written and greatly expanded fork (by bbbbbr) of the original version by stacksmashing (twitter).

It adds a full dictionary (versus the bloom filter), thousands more solution words, multiple dictionary languages, Game Boy Color support, and many other features.

Physical Cartridge available at Ferrante Crafts:

https://ferrantecrafts.com/products/gb-wordyl

Download ROMs and Play Online

Downloads and online playable version are at: https://bbbbbr.itch.io/gb-wordyl

• User's Manual

Special MegaDuck Features

• Physical Keyboard support for the CEFA Super QuiQue and Hartung Super Junior Computer models

Features

• Game stats: Won, Lost, Streak & Win Percentage
• Hard mode
• Auto-fill letters of previous exact matches
• Skip Auto-filled letters for faster letter entry
• Full English answer word list and dictionary less a couple cringy words (~12,900 words)
• Super Game Boy Border
• All in a 32K ROM
• Multiple language dictionaries (different ROM for each)
  • Deutsch (DE), English (EN), Español (ES), Français (FR), Italiano (IT), Nederlands (NL), Latin (LA), Português Brasileiro (PT-BR), Cornish (KW), català (CA)
  • No words with special chars, just English A-Z letters
  • Translated UI text for Deutsch (DE), English (EN), Español (ES), Français (FR), Nederlands (NL), Português Brasileiro (PT-BR), Cornish (KW), català (CA)

Controls:

• A: Add Letter
• B: Remove Letter
• START: Submit guess
• SELECT + B: Move Board Cursor Left
• SELECT + A: Move Board Cursor Right
• SELECT + START: Auto-fill exact matches of previous guesses
• 3 x SELECT: Options menu (Stats, Reset Stats, Forfeit Round)
• ARROW KEYS: Move Keyboard Cursor

Credits, Contributors and Thanks

Language / UI Translation credits:

• Brazilian Portuguese: Bruno Maestrini & Daniel Tolentino - https://github.com/DanielTolentino
• Fench: Cizia - https://github.com/cizia64
• Dutch: Ferrante Crafts - https://ferrantecrafts.com
• German: Skite2001 - https://twitter.com/skite2001
• Spanish: Adamantibus
• Cornish:
  • SJD (https://sjd-sjd.itch.io/)
  • Niwlen Ster
  • Kamm Cam
  • Dyski Kernowek Discord Group
  • Steve Harris (https://kerdle.vercel.app and https://an-wiasva.herokuapp.com)
  • Gerlyver Kernewek (https://cornishdictionary.org.uk)
• Catalan:
  • @urixturing
  • @alvaromartinezmajado
  • Their web version is at: https://factorialunar.github.io/vocable/
  • For this repo see the lang_catalan branch

Additional code and contributions from:

• Eucal.BB : Help with Megaduck Laptop testing and research
• Daeo : Cart and box Graphics
• Coffee "Valen" Bat : Game Sound FX and CBTFX Driver
• toxa : Ferrante Crafts 31k ROM + 1k Flash cart support
• arpruss : Highlighting fixes, Improved Dictionary compression and lookup speed
• zeta_two : Previous dictionary compression
• stacksmashing : original base code (mostly now rewritten)

Built using GBDK-2020 (4.2.0)

Building from source:

• Compress the dictionaries: make dictionaries
• Build the ROM: make (default language en and default cart 31k_1kflash)
  • Language option: make LANG_CODE=<lowercase 2 letter language code>, or langs to build all
  • Cart option: CART_TYPE=<cart type> (mbc5, 31k_1kflash. 32k_nosave), or carts to build all