Great resource! But a lot of it is very old. I recently discovered this open source ds cart[1] and an alternative SDK[2] to devkitPro. Both were used in the development of a demo[3] released at Revision this year.
Even the version linked to is out of date. The homepage links to a version of this guide[0] updated as recently as 2024. Still likely not the best place to get started.
Yea, the link really should be switched to this. Has a much more modern feel, hell as I was reading the OP the reason why I opened the comments was to see if someone commented on how dated the UI was.
I don't have an issue with the style personally. I actually like being able to navigate the whole page without clicking through pages. Looks like the content is the same too? Although that's just a glance comparing random snippets.
Because the article is about hardware formats, not storage formats. GPU hardware formats are left compressed in GPU memory, the GPU decodes it on the fly. Basis universal must be decoded to a GPU hardware format (or to plain RGBA) before it can be used by the GPU.
Well, it’s texture RAM, the only one that RDP can access. It’s closest thing to « video memory ». Although, you’re right as the framebuffer lives in main ram. But that just means the system is sharing like in modern hardware, so I wouldn’t call the main RAM VRAM in any way.
I wouldn't go that far, but yes, no compiler will leave that on the table today or even twenty years ago. They do even more impressive transformations than that on basic math.
