Here is the brand new version 1.2.0 of VBDE, your full fledged Nintendo Virtual Boy development environment for Windows!
- VBDE 1.2.0 (32 MB)
- VBDE Pro 1.2.0 (239 MB)
New compiler
For this version, gcc has been updated to 4.7 with amazing new patches by ElmerPCFX for wider compatabilty (e.g. frame pointers and prolog functions are now supported), better code optimization and much lower compile times.
Thanks a bunch Elmer! Also thank you to Jorgeche for helping with getting it up and running in VBDE!
Pro updates
For the Pro Version, IDEA has been updated to the latest version, 2106.3.4. Furthermore, the C/C++ plugin has been removed since it was causing slow-downs and broke auto-completion.
Tiled support
A script has been added for converting Tiled maps to VUEngine stages. It not only builds Stage definitions from Tiled maps, but also allows to mark certain object or tile layers as “Composites”, which get combined into single images and converted on the fly.
Most Stages of the VUEngine demos have been converted to Tiled maps and can be converted with the script, but in its current form, it’s not very robust against misconfiguration and more of a hacked together proof of concept. I hope to find the time to refactor this into a clean and highly extensible class structure for a future VBDE release.
New major VUEngine version
The VBJaEngine has been renamed to “VUEngine” and updated to version 5.0, which has seen tons of optimizations and bug fixes, new features as well as new, Doxygen-based documentation.
The VUEngine Barebone and Platformer Demo have also been massively updated. Check out the updated VUEngine Platformer Demo version, it now runs flawlessly on hardware and has some improved graphics, new level elements, new menus and an overhauled save feature! Here’s direct links to the compiled and padded binaries.
- VUEngine Platformer Demo (355 KB)
- VUEngine Platformer Demo (Debug Tools) (368 KB)
Repositories
Keep in mind that you can stay up to date, independent of releases, by grabbing VBDE and the VUEngine directly from their Git repositories at Bitbucket.
You’re welcome 🙂
@KR155E: If you’ve already an older version of VBDE installed, can you just install the newer one to the same directory or is it better to first uninstall the older one?
EDIT: Oh, I see – you just unzip the archive to a folder named “vbde” – that’s easy 
I have to bust out my mednafen emulator for the Wii to test the New version of VUE plaformer. I hope in the future the engine allow the use of scanned images ’cause i have some pretty good ideas for some hombrew games for the VB. I’m not a coder but a artist so keep that in mind 😉 
