The New 2024 gameBadge | Episode 1: Design Overview

[@walter_0802]

Excellent video. I like your shell much better. Less moving parts the better. Also cannot deny fast entry to SD card access. Looking for to the next video

[@whatskenmaking]

Thanks - I was worried there might be a bigger risk of the card falling out, but it stays in there pretty snug... no issues after using for a few weeks. We'll have both versions in the GitHub repo, and I'll print a few of my version to bring to the workshop in case folks would prefer it

[@RanHam]

I’ve been messing around with the pico and the st7789. When I look at the game badge code I get lost with all the DMA and dual core stuff. If you could do a video walking through the code, that would be awesome!

[@whatskenmaking]

Yeah, there's not much code segmentation - Ben wrote the majority of it in a single file! I'm going to walk through the code and show you how to make your own game in episode 3... hopefully next week before I head off to MGC... I'd love to have this series done before the workshop! 😁

[@HSTVizle]

Hi! I'm curious how the 16bpp of the screen works? Shouldn't it be a number that can be divided by 3 instead of 16? Like 24 or 12bpp as there are 3 color values RGB

[@whatskenmaking]

Good question! It uses RGB565 - 5 bits for red and blue, and 6 bits for green. It's pretty common for displays like this.

[@HSTVizle]

@@whatskenmaking Wow I wasn't aware of that thanks. Why green has 6 bits though?

[@randomcommenterurl]

What’s the boot & shutdown times? My pi nano takes too long to be useful in a handheld

[@whatskenmaking]

It's instantaneous - unlike a standard Pi, there's no real operating system to boot up. The games and emulators run on RP2040 directly without an OS

[@mirabilis]

I wish the reset button was more recessed.

[@whatskenmaking]

👍 I can make an update to bump it out a bit

[@VideoGameCookie]

Incredible video Ken! Been tearing through your library of content and your videos have all been so interesting, informative, and well produced! Thank you for your work.

[@whatskenmaking]

Nice... thank you!