gb-wordyl

A Wordle clone for the Nintendo Game Boy / Color and Analogue Pocket!

This is a re-written and greatly expanded fork (by bbbbbr) of the original version by stacksmashing (twitter).

It adds a full dictionary (versus the bloom filter), thousands more solution words, multiple dictionary languages, Game Boy Color support, and many other features.

Download ROMs and Play Online

Downloads and online playable version are at: https://bbbbbr.itch.io/gb-wordyl

• User's Manual

Features

• Game stats: Won, Lost, Streak & Win Percentage
• Hard mode
• Auto-fill letters of previous exact matches
• Skip Auto-filled letters for faster letter entry
• Full official English answer word list and dictionary less a couple cringy words (~12,900 words)
• Super Game Boy Border
• All in a 32K ROM
• Multiple language dictionaries (different ROM for each)
  • Deutsch (DE), English (EN), Español (ES), Français (FR), Italiano (IT), Nederlands (NL), Latin (LA), Português Brasileiro (PT-BR), Cornish (KW), català (CA)
  • No words with special chars, just English A-Z letters
  • Translated UI text for Deutsch (DE), English (EN), Español (ES), Nederlands (NL), Português Brasileiro (PT-BR), Cornish (KW), català (CA)

Controls:

• A: Add Letter
• B: Remove Letter
• START: Submit guess
• SELECT + B: Move Board Cursor Left
• SELECT + A: Move Board Cursor Right
• SELECT + START: Auto-fill exact matches of previous guesses
• 3 x SELECT: Options menu (Stats, Reset Stats, Forfeit Round)
• ARROW KEYS: Move Keyboard Cursor

Credits, Contributors and Thanks

Language / UI Translation credits:

• German: Skite2001 - https://twitter.com/skite2001
• Dutch: Ferrante Crafts - https://ferrantecrafts.com
• Brazilian Portuguese: Daniel Tolentino - https://github.com/DanielTolentino
• Cornish:
  • SJD (https://sjd-sjd.itch.io/)
  • Niwlen Ster
  • Kamm Cam
  • Dyski Kernowek Discord Group
  • Steve Harris (https://kerdle.vercel.app and https://an-wiasva.herokuapp.com)
  • Gerlyver Kernewek (https://cornishdictionary.org.uk)
• Catalan:
  • @urixturing
  • @alvaromartinezmajado
  • Their web version is at: https://factorialunar.github.io/vocable/
  • For this repo see the lang_catalan branch

Additional code and contributions from:

• Daeo : Cart and box Graphics
• Coffee "Valen" Bat : Game Sound FX and CBTFX Driver
• toxa : Ferrante Crafts 31k ROM + 1k Flash cart support
• arpruss : Highlighting fixes, Improved Dictionary compression and lookup speed
• zeta_two : Previous dictionary compression
• stacksmashing : original base code (mostly now rewritten)

Built using GBDK-2020 (4.0.6 / 4.1.0-Pre+)

Building from source:

• Compress the dictionaries: make dictionaries
• Build the ROM: make (default language en and default cart 31k_1kflash)
  • Language option: make LANG_CODE=<lowercase 2 letter language code>
  • Cart option: CART_TYPE=<cart type> (mbc5, 31k_1kflash. 32k_nosave)