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A curated list of Sega Mega Drive development resources
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Suggestions for the list #3

Open jan-kleks opened 3 years ago

jan-kleks commented 3 years ago

Thank you for creating this list, great idea!

Check out these two extensive retrocoding GitHub lists (probably the best of their kind) as an example of how the Mega Drive list could possibly be developed further when it comes to the content and look:

Some suggestions for the list:

Regards

And-0 commented 3 years ago

Wow, that is an amazing list! I'll go through it later this week, just wanted to say thank you!

jan-kleks commented 3 years ago

@And-0 You are welcome. I have updated the list -- in the future you could try to archive some of the links on the Internet Archive and/or http://archive.is/, so that they would not suddenly stop working.

diegzumillo commented 3 years ago

Can I borrow this to suggest my own WIP engine? I have other related stuff in my github but I'm not sure they fit the adjective "awesome"

And-0 commented 3 years ago

Alright, I've added a first batch of @jan-kleks suggestions, just to get things rolling!

Since there is a lot more stuff out there than I knew about, I think it makes sense to modify the structure of this list a bit. However, it's a bit tricky to decide on how. One big question that I'd like to get your feedback on is: Should we put Mega CD and 32X stuff in its own category?

On the one hand it makes sense, as they're different hardware with a specific target audience; Most people would start with MD programming and then move on later down the line, I think. However, that could lead to duplicates, like Chris Shrigley's page, which contains source code for both MD and Mega CD games. Thoughts?

@diegzumillo Absolutely, feel free to post it here or create a pull request! If it's for the Mega Drive, it's awesome by default :P

diegzumillo commented 3 years ago

https://github.com/diegzumillo/StealthMetroidMD This is a work in progress game for the Mega Drive written with SGDK. I am making it open souce for now, in the hopes it serves as learning material or starting point for someone. Maybe it needs a name.

And-0 commented 3 years ago

I've added it to the list, @diegzumillo!

I've also created a new branch new_structure where I've changed the general structure of the list and added some more of Jan's suggestions. Feel free to offer suggestions or whatever; I created the branch so I/we could play around without messing up the list.

diegzumillo commented 3 years ago

Thanks! Maybe open source game is a better description than engine but works as both, in my opinion.

jan-kleks commented 3 years ago

@And-0 Experimenting with the structure of the list till you find the best one is a nice idea.

Regarding the "Moon Watcher Games" entry, as I wrote, there is more stuff there than just games, so something like a "collection/repository" might actually be a better name, and one might want to look for something that does not suggest everything is made by Moon Watcher (which is not the case). BTW, you could also ping Moon Watcher on Twitter (https://twitter.com/moonwatchermd) and ask if we are missing anything useful for the list, they post lots of Sega-related stuff.

Some more links:

jan-kleks commented 3 years ago

@And-0 I have added a few more links to my last post here. BTW, the Mode5 website does not load (at least for me), but it seems to work through the Internet Archive Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20201201204051/https://mode5.net/Tutorials.html (again, as I wrote earlier, it might be a good idea to archive some of the links from the list at some point...)

jan-kleks commented 3 years ago

@And-0 I can see that you have been asking people on Twitter, if they want more MD tutorials. IMHO, you could try to port some of your games from https://www.ohsat.com/game/ to Mega Drive and document your development journey (maybe even with video tutorials?). Then you could post the links to new tutorials to this list as well. :)

Have you checked some of the later links I have added here? There's some really cool stuff.

And-0 commented 3 years ago

Haven't had a chance to work through all the links yet, sorry. Hopefully I'll get around to adding them soon! It's amazing how much stuff you can dig up.

@And-0 I can see that you have been asking people on Twitter, if they want more MD tutorials. IMHO, you could try to port some of your games from https://www.ohsat.com/game/ to Mega Drive and document your development journey (maybe even with video tutorials?). Then you could post the links to new tutorials to this list as well. :)

Not a bad idea...thanks, I'll add that to my list!

jan-kleks commented 3 years ago

@And-0 Have you seen these thorough lists of commerical/free Mega Drive (and Dreamcast) homebrew games?: http://segabits.com/forums/index.php?topic=3890.0 You could also put a link to that site -- to show how much stuff people are making in general.

jan-kleks commented 3 years ago

Great job with updating the list! Check out as well:

tndata commented 2 years ago

A suggestion for your list is a blog post I just published at:

How I built my own Sega Mega Drive hardware dev kit from scratch https://nestenius.se/2022/01/18/how-i-built-my-own-sega-mega-drive-hardware-dev-kit-from-scratch/

About 30 years ago I had the crazy idea to develop games for the Sega Mega Drive, but I didn’t have suitable hardware. So, I decided to reverse engineer my Sega Mega Drive and build my own hardware development kit from scratch. Read about how I did it in my latest blog post!