Development

Getting started

• Ready-to-use environments
  • Docker images
  • DreamSDK (Windows only)
• Building the required toolchains for Sega Dreamcast development
  • Building the required toolchains on BSD
  • Building the required toolchains on Cygwin
  • Building the required toolchains on GNU/Linux
  • Building the required toolchains on macOS
  • Building the required toolchains on MinGW/MSYS
  • Building the required toolchains on MinGW-w64/MSYS2
• KallistiOS
  • Building KOS on Linux mint (or Ubuntu)
  • Building KOS under Windows Subsystem for Linux (Windows 10 only)
  • Building KOS on macOS
• Using Ruby for Sega Dreamcast development (experimental)
• Using GCC 9.2.0

Build & test

• Building your project
• Emulators
• Broadband adapter / LAN adapter
  • Using dcload-ip with Linux (or Windows 10 via Windows Subsystem for Linux)
• Coder's cable

Debugging & profiling

• Debugging throught GNU Debugger (GDB) and dcload/dc-tool
• Using dcprof

Releasing your project

• Plain files
• Disc image
• Selfboot Inducer package

Engines

• Simulant
  • Windows WSL2 Setup
  • Generate profiling data

General

• Romdisk Swapping
• Marcus Comstedt's Dreamcast Hardware Reference

Graphics

• PVR
  • PVR Spritesheets
• GLdc
  • Drawing 2D sprites using GLdc
  • Drawing 3D shapes using GLdc
• Others
  • Procedural texture
  • Notes on fillrate and drawing large textures

Audio

• Playing SFX
• Streaming audio

Maple

• Controller input

VMU

• Save/Load file
• Show icon
• Play tone
• Save VMU game

Optimization

• GCC-SH4 tips
• Yam 20to4 SH4 maths
• Useful programming tips
• Registers
• DMA
• TA
• PVR

Random Snippets

• Objdump