HAM Tutorial :: Week 1

Day 1
GBA Hardware

Day 2
"Hello, World!"

Day 3
Input

Day 4
Backgrounds -
Bitmapped Modes

Day 5
Sprites

Day 6
Backgrounds -
Tile Modes

Day 7
Project 1 -
Tetris

Day 8
Sprites #2 -
Animation

Day 10
Sprites #3 -
Animation #2

Day 11
Backgrounds -
Rotation

Day 12
Sprites #4 -
Mosaic

HAM Tutorial :: Week 1 :: Quiz

NOTE: If there's no pop-up, you chose the correct answer.

01) The GBA has 7 video modes

02) Modes 0 - 2 are Tile modes
Modes 3 - 5 are Bitmap modes

03) The first HAM function called should be ham_init()

04) In order to use HAM's text system, you should call ham_InitText() with no parameters

05) HAM's text system only works in the Bitmap modes

06) Input is very difficult to do with HAM

07) To setup a background Mode, you will need to use the ham_SetBgMode()

08) To load the palette for your background, use ham_LoadObjPal()

09) To display a background in a Tile mode, use ham_DispBg()