{"id":189,"date":"2015-07-25T16:52:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T15:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gendev.spritesmind.net\/wip\/?p=189"},"modified":"2021-06-29T22:37:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T21:37:13","slug":"diy-dev-kit-prologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gendev.spritesmind.net\/wip\/2015\/07\/diy-dev-kit-prologue\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Dev Kit &#8211; prologue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people know how much i&#8217;m sad so few homebrew games were released these last 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we saw some gems (Hello Spain!) but if you count how much (real) games were made, it&#8217;s not a lot while SGDK and SpritesMind are alive from some many years !<\/p>\n<p>My goal was to help people to dev for Genny.<br \/>\nLet face it : it was a half failure because &#8220;help&#8221; included informations, community, tools and code.<\/p>\n<p>Informations and forum are, I think, a success.<\/p>\n<p>Tools, like I said took me a LOT of times and, apart KMod, were a help for perhaps 2 or 3 people.<br \/>\nI (recently) stopped trying to understand why you&#8217;re all trying to make your own tools, your own kit, your own ide, your own framework , if not your own compiler or assembler.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not a total failure, because I&#8217;m very happy if I was helpful for these 2 or 3 homebrewers but was it the right way to help them ?<\/p>\n<p>My demo\/games Code is too old to be used and the few tutorials I made for SGDK were no longer usable 2 months later, after a major SGDK release.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it was a mistake from side to say in the first place &#8220;<em>He! Guys! make some great games, I&#8217;ll give you all you need !<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But now, I&#8217;ll stop losing my times.<br \/>\nTools are still available, still updated and still open source.<br \/>\nBut forget about tools made as much as options or liberty so they can be used by anyone.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m updated them to suit MY needs.<br \/>\nYou use them ? Great ! Continue ! and PM me if you ever find a bug.<br \/>\nYou need a new feature ? Fork my tool, update it and ask for merge request&#8230;.or\u00a0PM me and if I find it useful, <strong><em>perhaps<\/em><\/strong>, I&#8217;ll add it<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, what will I do now ?<br \/>\nWell, is it not clear enough ? Do what I was expecting other people to do : RELEASE GAMES !<\/p>\n<p>To do so, I need a valid process to be sure my games work on real hardware and not emulators only.<\/p>\n<p>And so, start my posts serie about making a networked dev kit using<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a genny v1 w\/o TMSS (the best one)<\/li>\n<li>a Super Magic Drive<\/li>\n<li>a thin client<\/li>\n<li>an usb-to-serial adpater<\/li>\n<li>Tiny core Linux<\/li>\n<li>existing, updated or new open source softwares<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;because help with as much informations as possible is a part of myself, mainly because I&#8217;m what I am now thanks to people who share what they know\/found all other the net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people know how much i&#8217;m sad so few homebrew games were released these last 15 years. Of course, we saw some gems (Hello Spain!) but if you count how much (real) games were made, it&#8217;s not a lot while SGDK and SpritesMind are alive from some many years ! My goal was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gendev.spritesmind.net\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gendev.spritesmind.net\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gendev.spritesmind.net\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gendev.spritesmind.net\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gendev.spritesmind.net\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gendev.spritesmind.net\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/gendev.spritesmind.net\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gendev.spritesmind.net\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gendev.spritesmind.net\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gendev.spritesmind.net\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}