Development

Getting started

• Getting Started with Dreamcast development -- start here!

Ready-to-use environments

• Docker images
• DreamSDK (Windows only)

KallistiOS

• Building on Linux, macOS, Windows Subsystem for Linux
  • see Getting Started with Dreamcast development
• Building KOS on Cygwin
• Building KOS on MinGW/MSYS
• Building KOS on MinGW-w64/MSYS2
• KallistiOS Doxygen documentation

Other

• Using Ruby for Sega Dreamcast development (experimental)

Build & test

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

Environments and IDEs

• Qt Creator Dreamcast Development Environment
• CLion Debugging
• Visual Studio Code

Tools & utilities

• 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

• Filesystem
• Romdisk Swapping
• Store Queues
• Marcus Comstedt's Dreamcast Hardware Reference

Graphics

• Texture Formats
• Graphics APIs
• Paletted Textures
• 2D Rendering Without PVR
• Twiddling

• PVR
  • PowerVR Introduction
  • PVR Spritesheets
• GLdc
  • Drawing 2D sprites using GLdc
  • Drawing 3D shapes using GLdc
  • GLdc Vertex Formats: From vec3f to fastpath to map_buffer
• Others
  • Procedural texture
  • Notes on fillrate and drawing large textures
  • KMG Textures
  • Loading PNG images as OpenGL textures

Audio

• Playing SFX
• Streaming audio

Maple

• Controller input

VMU

• File Types
• Save/Load file
• Show icon
• Play tone
• Game Development

Optimization

• GCC-SH4 tips
• SH4 in Compiler Explorer
• Fast SH4 Vertex Processing
• Useful programming tips
• Efficient usage of the Dreamcast RAM
• Registers
• DMA
• TA
• PVR

Website Development

• Development Resources

Random Snippets

• Objdump