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Hi Scythe, Have you programmed in any language before? Or are you looking to learn your first programming language? I'm no expert, but my suggestion would be to learn C programming independently from Mega Drive games development. Once you are proficient in C programming, then try working with an est...

Matt, your work is inspirational. I hope to be able to make Mega Drive games in the future, and your work is like a blueprint of what to do! I'm looking forward to seeing the finished, crafted product at the end!

Great work guys on getting your Kickstarter going and your progress with the project.
All work (code, art and music) look stellar so far. I'll be following this closely!

Thanks Stef,
I'm glad to know it's at least possible!
I'll continue to make my engine in the background. Thanks for everything you continue to do with SGDK.

Hi Stef (and others!) Just a question, when I make multiple xgms for use with SGDK, which all use the same rhythm drum kit pcm sound effects, and I combine them as assets into my ROM, do the PCM sound effects only take up space once in the ROM, or does each song have it's own instance of the PCM dat...

Hmm I seem to remember reading somewhere that if the Master System video mode was sacrificed, there would be enough CRAM available for more palettes, or something similar to that. Never mind! And I definitely wouldn't want to sacrifice 320px wide mode - that is one of the killer advantages the MD ha...

I wish wish wish wish the Mega Drive had the things on Stef's list. My order would be: 1) 4 palettes for BG, 4 palettes for Sprites. 2) RGB444 3) 128KB VRAM 1 Is the most tragic, as it could theoretically be achieved for free, as ob1 mentioned. From what I understand, 2 could have been achieved by s...

That looks awesome.
I am most of the way through writing a scripting engine in my Mega Drive engine in C and the designer for Windows in C#.
Yours looks far more elegant than mine! Great job.

Congratulations on finishing your game!

I've been working on my engine, tilemapper and management interface for the last year.
I've almost finished the text display part now, so its very slow (but enjoyable!) going.

Hi Stef, Thanks for your help with this. I have just upgraded the SDK to the latest version you have just released with the new GCC! The problem was indeed I was out of memory. I didn't think it could be possible at first, since my project is so simple. However I dug deeper, seeing that I was only a...

Great, thanks Stef, I'll try that out.

Hi Stef, Thanks for your reply and sorry for creating confusion, I am using a custom build process, which is calling rescomp from a c# level editor I am making. However since I didn't set the starting directory for the rescomp command window process, it was starting in C:\Windows\System32 and theref...

Yeah, I'm excited about that too - people retiring and spending time making the best games they can for vintage consoles. Kinda like the vintage motorcycle crowd.

Ok testing manually, rescomp says it can't find jarfile lz4w.jar. It exists in the SGDK\BIN directory, but I was calling it from another directory. When I called rescomp from the bin directory, it compressed successfully. So, no compression = 40kb .s file Slow = 20kb .s file Fast = 29kb .s file. The...