The application will take a text in almost any language and make it into a book to read on GameBoy, or GameBoy Advance.

The GBA version supports 50 bookmarks, hyperlinks, colour pictures and MIDI files (some features for registered users only).

This is Shareware and if you register it is more likely that I will continue the project.

You may also need a cartridge.

• Game Boy Book Reader V4.92b (gbbook.exe)
  
  Latest International version. For GameBoy and GameBoy Advance.

With new Import Functions

The file gbbook.exe is an Installer (NSIS based). Just run it from anywhere to install Makebook.

In this version Arabic Users should use the 16 pixel high font, Chinese / Japanese / Hebrew users should use the 12 or 16 pixel high fonts, Korean users should be able to use any font, and most other users can pick any. 16 pixel high is a real alternative with the larger Advance screen. For Traditional Chinese at 12 pixel height, select font f_trad_ch12.gbf.

Please note that on some versions of Windows in China, and other non-Western countries, the text file will look like rubbish. But don't worry. If it looks ok in Notepad it will still make a good book ROM.

See version notes here

You can register here

You can find cartridges here

GBA user instructions here

• Game Boy Book Reader V2.3b (gbbook.zip)
  Source code and application for original version. All characters are 8 pixel high and you have to pick either the West European font or the Korean font. Please note that I will try to fix the 2 outstanding bugs in this version soon. (No mono Gameboys, and short words at end of line sometimes have leading space missing.) These have been fixed in V3.0
• ECAL Control File for Game Boy (gb.txt)
  For Users of ECAL wanting to develop for GB.