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there is no multitexturing support on the NDS

grit converts from from any rgba32 file. any serious bitmap editor can handle alpha. but you'd be well advised not to use TGA, as TGA is the worst format ever for 32bpp files. Like if you drop those in photoshop, theyll malfunction until you do some black magic which is idiotic. You can drop the ...

youll also see sections .ARM.extab and .ARM.exidx in the bpapi.o ; exception handling junk that isnt in dwedit.o. its not too surprising that gcc also emit an extern reference to the exception handling code into that file when it emit the exception handling data..maybe to make sure that the ...

I dont know what a separate main file are. If youre asking if you can load "nitro-engine" files without all the associated machinery of nitro-engine, that sounds rather unlikely, doesn't it? You may have to do quite a bit of picking-apart of nitro-engine if thats the case.

if it runs fast enough that offloading a share of it to the arm7 even makes sense as an optimization, then you're close to the goal anyway. just optimize it by a factor of 2 and youll have nailed it.

the time to calculate one mandelbrot pixel may be more than the fifo synchronization time, especially if you use floating point maths. but since you havent even made your mandelbrot viewer yet on the arm9, it seems, you have no idea how fast it is running, making this a premature optimization ...

dont you think thats what he meant? it is not typical to consider the case that the banks A-D may be mapped to something other than slots 1-4

didn't work how

Hardly anyone uses the depth image and even fewer people use the back plane image. Those will be available for textures in almost all cases. Dedicated is a poor choice of words.

are you double buffering?