tmx2gba is a simple command line utility that converts Tiled .tmx maps to Game Boy Advance formatted charmaps.
- Export raw charmaps that can be easily memcpy'd into VRAM.
- Preserves tile flipping.
- Supports per-tile palette specification.
- Custom collision layer support.
- Support for objects with id mapping.
tmx2gba [-hv] [-r offset] [-lyc name] [-p 0-15] [-m name;id] <-i inpath> <-o outpath>
| Command | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| -h | N/A | Display help & command info |
| -v | No | Display version & quit |
| -l (name) | No | Name of layer to use (default first layer in TMX) |
| -y (name) | No | Layer for palette mappings |
| -c (name) | No | Output a separate 8bit collision map of the specified layer |
| -r (offset) | No | Offset tile indices (default 0) |
| -p (0-15) | No | Select which palette to use for 4-bit tilesets |
| -m (name;id) | No | Map an object name to an ID, will enable object exports |
| -i (path) | Yes | Path to input TMX file |
| -o (path) | Yes | Path to output files |
| -f | No | Flag file containing command-line arguments for easy integration with buildscripts |
Dependencies for building are CMake 3.15 and a C++20 compliant compiler, all other dependencies are in-tree so you should be able to build with:
cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
cmake --build buildOptionally, you may install it to use it system wide:
sudo cmake --install buildWhich will copy the tmx2gba executable to /usr/local/bin/tmx2gba by default,
--prefix /usr can be used to override install location.
If you're a devkitPro user and would prefer to keep all your development tools compartmentalised
you may optionally install to the tools directory with the TMX2GBA_DKP_INSTALL option (OFF by default).
The build scripts will respect your DEVKITPRO environment variable but if not set will install to
/opt/devkitpro/tools/bin/tmx2gba directly, the --prefix argument has no effect in this mode.
cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DTMX2GBA_DKP_INSTALL:BOOL=ON
cmake --build build
sudo cmake --install build- Add support for multi-SBB prepared charmaps.
- Check if this works for NDS as well.
- Compression support.
tmx2gba is licensed under the Zlib license.
- A modified tmxlite is licensed under the Zlib license.
- pugixml is licensed under the MIT license.
- René Nyffenegger's base64.cpp is licensed under the Zlib license.
- miniz is licensed under the MIT license.
- ZStandard is licensed under the BSD 3-clause license.