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Out of curiosity, what kind of tools do you use to do N64 development?

by FillardMillmore 6y ago

danbolt 6y ago
The last version of the SDK and the GCC-based toolchain were leaked a long time ago, which runs on Windows computers pre-Vista. I'll program in C with Sublime Text, and then run the compiler/toolchain in a VM running Windows XP. The VM can see my source code via a shared folder. I'm waiting on the mail for a flash cartridge to run ROMs on retail hardware, so for now I use the mupen64plus emulator on Mac OS X, but also a more accurate (but slower) one called CEN64 from time to time. Nintendo 64 emulators are kind of odd; the popular ones don't really "emulate" a game console the way I would have expected. Sometimes I post pictures of my progress on Twitter if you're interested: https://twitter.com/danielsavface/status/1258896460604555264 https://twitter.com/danielsavface/status/1258896460604555264
yellowapple 6y ago
As someone else digging into this... The short answer seems to be to use either SGI's N64 SDK and a modern toolchain (https://github.com/trhodeos/modern-n64sdk https://github.com/trhodeos/modern-n64sdk) or libdragon (https://dragonminded.com/n64dev/libdragon/ https://dragonminded.com/n64dev/libdragon/). The latter comes at the cost of not having built-in support for 3D (but it seems like there's enough there to take a DIY approach) and also being incompatible with most emulators (which "cheat" a bit by intercepting calls to the original libultra instead of directly emulating all the hardware). One could also run SGI's original compilers/toolchain, whether on a Linux system (using qemu-irix, which is what the folks over at https://github.com/n64decomp https://github.com/n64decomp have been doing) or on a Windows 98 VM. The N64Homebrew subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/N64Homebrew/ https://www.reddit.com/r/N64Homebrew/) is also a pretty useful resource.

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Out of curiosity, what kind of tools do you use to do N64 development?

by FillardMillmore 6y ago

Out of curiosity, what kind of tools do you use to do N64 development?

danbolt 6y ago
The last version of the SDK and the GCC-based toolchain were leaked a long time ago, which runs on Windows computers pre-Vista. I'll program in C with Sublime Text, and then run the compiler/toolchain in a VM running Windows XP. The VM can see my source code via a shared folder. I'm waiting on the mail for a flash cartridge to run ROMs on retail hardware, so for now I use the mupen64plus emulator on Mac OS X, but also a more accurate (but slower) one called CEN64 from time to time. Nintendo 64 emulators are kind of odd; the popular ones don't really "emulate" a game console the way I would have expected. Sometimes I post pictures of my progress on Twitter if you're interested: https://twitter.com/danielsavface/status/1258896460604555264 https://twitter.com/danielsavface/status/1258896460604555264
yellowapple 6y ago
As someone else digging into this... The short answer seems to be to use either SGI's N64 SDK and a modern toolchain (https://github.com/trhodeos/modern-n64sdk https://github.com/trhodeos/modern-n64sdk) or libdragon (https://dragonminded.com/n64dev/libdragon/ https://dragonminded.com/n64dev/libdragon/). The latter comes at the cost of not having built-in support for 3D (but it seems like there's enough there to take a DIY approach) and also being incompatible with most emulators (which "cheat" a bit by intercepting calls to the original libultra instead of directly emulating all the hardware). One could also run SGI's original compilers/toolchain, whether on a Linux system (using qemu-irix, which is what the folks over at https://github.com/n64decomp https://github.com/n64decomp have been doing) or on a Windows 98 VM. The N64Homebrew subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/N64Homebrew/ https://www.reddit.com/r/N64Homebrew/) is also a pretty useful resource.