Hergs Solitaire GBA

This is a collection of card games for the Game Boy Advance, with the option to add custom backgrounds and cardbacks.

User guide

Create a 240x160 pixel image of 16 shades of gray.

The easy way to convert from other color modes is using Photoshop.
Change to Indexed Mode, Custom, and load the background.act palette included in the backgrounds archive. Dither to taste, and save as a 4bit BMP.

Run addbkg <bmpfile> <romfile>

Create a 24x32 pixel image of 16 colors (only 15 may actually be used)

The easy way to convert from other color modes is using Photoshop.
Change to Indexed Mode, Local (Perceptual) with 15 colors, and dither to your preference, and save as a 4bit BMP.

Run addcrdbk <bmpfile> <romfile>

There are more premade backgrounds and cardbacks in the graphics archive. You can use addcrdbk to add these to the rom.

R+L - Redeal cards

R/L+Select - Changes game

R/L - Scroll down/up

Start - Bring up options menu

D-Pad - Move pointer

A - Main action

B - Secondary action

Select+Start+A+B - Jump out to main menu (Pogoshell, FAW, LW, etc)

Select+Start - Awake from sleep mode

Statistics screen:

Right/Left - View stats for next/previous game

A - Deal cards to play currently displayed game

Start/B - Exit statistics without starting new game

Cursor Movement modes:

Normal mode - Works like a computer mouse pointer

Jump mode - Jumps to the closest card/hole in the direction pressed

Set pointer speed to 0 for Jump mode control.

Background/Color selection:

Left/Right - Select color component to modify

Up/Down - Adjust the value

L+Left/Right - Change background design

R+Left/Right - Change cardbacks