With the Gameboy Tile Designer ("GBTD"), you can draw tiles which you can incorporate in your own Gameboy productions.

Some of it's features are:

With GBTD, you can design tiles in different sizes, including 8x8, 8x16, 16x16 and 32x32, both in standard Gameboy, as well as colors for the Super Gameboy and Gameboy Color. Examples can be shown as separate and in a group. Resizing is easy; simply select a different size from the menu, and GBTD will remap all tiles. All other tiles are shown and selected visually, making navigating through your tiles a snap. GBTD also has Flood fill, flipping, scrolling, rotating and Undo-support, to give your design-time that extra punch you are looking for.

You can cut and paste tiles in and out of GBTD to other graphical programs, using the standard clipboard functionality under Windows. This means you can put any graphic-format you have inside you tiles. Using 'Split Copy and Paste', you can even import whole images, letting GBTD handle the tedious work of splitting those images into usable tiles. Next to these methods of importing, GBTD can import whole tilesets from files created by GBE, and binary files in various formats.

GBTD exports directly to RGBDS Assembly-source, Objectfile ("RGB1"), GBDK C-source, TASM Assembly-source, ISAS Assembly-source and flat binary, in a range of formats; it can also automatically add counters and compress the data, making conversion programs or editing by hand in most cases unneeded. It even generates include and header files, which state not only the labels, but also general info about the exported data. Also, all settings you make are saved for each individual tileset, so you don't have to remember which settings are appropriate for which tileset.

GBTD is Freeware !

The Gameboy Tile Designer is Freeware; you are allowed to use it in any way you want, without paying me anything. You are also allowed (and encouraged) to distribute this software, as long as you don't receive any payment for it. If you want to link your home page to GBTD, be sure to link it to this site, not directly to the downloadable file, as updates will receive different filenames. Keep in mind that you use this software at your own risk; any damage which might occur, in whatever form, is your own responsibility.

Installation

GBTD operates under Windows 95, 98 and NT4. GBTD does not have to be installed; simply download and unzip the package below and start GBTD.EXE. Keep all the accompanied files in the same directory, and associate .GBR-files to GBTD for maximum enjoyment. Check out the included README.TXT for more info.

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