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arightwizard

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I don't mean ripping one from a game I own, I mean actually using a program to design everything and compile it into a ROM to be used in an emulator like project64

I figure it'd definitely be easier than designing most games, (yes..I've designed a game before, in Java) so I wanted to give it a shot and see what it's like. Chances are, I'll give up in a few days or weeks haha, but maybe not, so why not try, right?

Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks!
 
Allnatural

Allnatural

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I wouldn't say that it's easier, but it's certainly possible (GoodN64 lists a number of PD homebrew roms after all). I'm sure if you do a bit of googling you'll find some programming resources. Poking around in any of the open source emulators would probably help too.
 
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arightwizard

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haha

lol then you have no idea how advanced my Java game was! I lost all the code, took me 3 years to write fully.

@AllNatural I've been googling but I can't find a way to homebrew, I guess I'll just keep looking.
 
smcd

smcd

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Trying to scrape what's left online (or on archive.org) for n64 development...
http://www.zophar.net/utilities/n64dev.html
http://n64dev.50megs.com/ -- linux based stuffs
http://web.archive.org/web/20050404124700/http://www.dextrose.com/index.php?s=3&m=19&fg=34 - development tools (assemblers, compilers, etc) like many archive.org sites, it may contain some dead links... BUT, it could give you the names of programs or files to further google :) for example, GroundZero N64-Devkit 0.1 under compilers, download link works! but, many/all? links under Sources N64 don't
Setting up a cross-compiler on linux:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/N64_Programming/Compiling

Some games/homebrew/demos may have source? on these:
http://pdroms.de/news/nintendo64/
http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?platform[]=Nintendo 64
 
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arightwizard

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smcd said:
Trying to scrape what's left online (or on archive.org) for n64 development...
http://www.zophar.net/utilities/n64dev.html
http://n64dev.50megs.com/ -- linux based stuffs
http://web.archive.org/web/20050404124700/http://www.dextrose.com/index.php?s=3&m=19&fg=34 - development tools (assemblers, compilers, etc) like many archive.org sites, it may contain some dead links... BUT, it could give you the names of programs or files to further google :) for example, GroundZero N64-Devkit 0.1 under compilers, download link works! but, many/all? links under Sources N64 don't
Setting up a cross-compiler on linux:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/N64_Programming/Compiling

Some games/homebrew/demos may have source? on these:
http://pdroms.de/news/nintendo64/
http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?platform[]=Nintendo 64
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Oh wow, that's a lot of stuff I missed. Thanks so much for that, I'll give it a look as soon as I can.
 
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