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Tools & Programs

Tools, Programs, Software, and anything else that I use or can personally recommend.

HMA

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Hex Maniac Advance

HexManiacAdvance is an all-purpose editor designed for editing Pokemon GBA games. It specifically targets the English games Ruby, Sapphire, FireRed, LeafGreen, and Emerald. It has a reduced set of features when opening other files.
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Emulators

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mGBA

mGBA is an open-source Game Boy Advance emulator
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DeSmuMe

DeSmuME is the most advanced, reliable, feature-rich and open-source 100% free Nintendo DS emulator
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Image Tools

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Paint.net

Paint.NET is image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.
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GIMP

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
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LibreSprite

LibreSprite is a free and open source program for creating and animating your sprites.
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Piskel

Piskel is a free online editor for animated sprites & pixel art
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Audio Tools

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Sappy

A Music Editor for select GBA games
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Anvil Studio

Anvil Studio is a free Program designed for people who want to

record music with MIDI and Audio equipment, compose music for MIDI and Audio equipment, sequence music with MIDI equipment, play with music using a computer, and print sheet music from standard MIDI files with the optional Print-Sheet accessory.

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Text Editors

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Code Writer

Code Writer is a free text and code editor app with over 20 supported file types, and active syntax highlighting that updates as you edit documents. Use it as a replacement for Notepad and other quick edit apps.
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Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several programming languages.
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Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a free, lightweight, and powerful source code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
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Recording Tools

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Open Broadcaster Software (OBS)

Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.
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Other

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ROM Patcher JS

An online web-based ROM patcher.
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ModExe

ModExe aims to facilitate the quick addition of small mods/changes to your rom hack.
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GBA Intro Manager

This program can edit almost anything about the intro sequences of any 3rd generation Pokémon game, from the music played to the position where the player spawns.
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Intro Gengar Sprite2 Converter

This tool creates the 3 images needed to import into HMA for the intro Gengar sprite2 in FireRed
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