This is a set of utilities for the Bodos PalmBoy and Phoinix Gameboy emulators. Some of them may be useful for other applications as well.

The Grayscale Hack

This is a Hackmaster hack and requires the hackmaster application or a compatible replacement to be installed in order to work.

This hack allows the systems grayscale settings to be modified. It works only with applications that use the PalmOS functions to set the video modes (most of my games don't), use the 2bpp grayscale mode (black, white and two shades of grey), and don't try to set the greyscale settings themselves (most game do this).

This hack will allow you to adjust the grayscale settings used by e.g. Phoinix/PalmBoy to satisfy your needs. The adjustments will not affect programs that use their own grayscale settings but they will affect all applications that rely on the PalmOS functions to set the grayscale video mode. This way you don't have to adjust the settings for each application seperately, but the settings are changed globally for all applications.

History

V1.0

Initial release.

Real Freedom

Real Freedom is a converter for Phoinix cartridge images. It can convert images from the format used by the Gameboy emulators Liberty (commercial) and Phoinix/PalmBoy (free) and gameboy cartridges stored on SmartMedia using the axxPac into the Phoinix format.

Currently the converter creates a blank RAM image for cartridges with built-in RAM. This means, that saved games are lost when converting cartridges. The axxPac import routine works with cartridge images in *.gb format as found as used with most gameboy emulators for the PC. The converter does not allow to import cartridges stored in the Phoinix PDB format on SmartMedia. Please use the axxPacShell to import these files from SmartMedia to your Palm. Cartridges in gb format can be stored on SmartMedia using a adaptor for your desktop PC or with the axxPac using the axxPac FTP utility.

History

V1.0

Initial release for PalmBoy.

V1.1

Corrected bug with MBC2.

V1.2

Extended to work for Phoinix. Handles old Liberty format correctly.

Download

• The grayscale hack incl. sources
• The cartridge converter incl. sources