Starting on Development

rulojuka · Post by **rulojuka** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 11:40 pm

Hello everybody.

I am new to developing and I was looking for a project to join and try to learn some stuff and hopefully help it too, so I thought about Snes9x, because i have been using it for years and always thought it was pretty good and, even better, open source.

Well, the problem is: I don't have any familiarity with real development nor with the SNES hardware. I can program well in C, and I'm learning C++, but I've always had a more algorithmic approach, writing small programs in a competition scheme.

In resume, i would appreciate if you could give me some starting points to the development, like how to understand the source code as a whole, or SNES hardware manuals, or even suggestions to other projects I may look if Snes9x is a bit hard for a beginner.

So, thanks in advance.

Camo_Yoshi · Post by **Camo_Yoshi** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 3:35 pm

Welcome to Snes9x, then! Glad to have you on board.

I believe the sources are heavily documented; you can download the latest source, v1.53, at http://camoyoshi.x10.mx/mirror/snes9x/s ... rc.tar.tar

I can't remember any other resources that might be helpful at the moment. Sorry about that... Stick around and one of the port maintainers might show up and help you out.

And thanks for volunteering, as well!

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 1:06 am

Ah, yes. I'm in the process of compiling it as well. I want to look at it and try a few things

I'm getting a roadblock at the .obj files. Anyone got a guide to compiling the .asm files with nasm?

OV2 · Post by **OV2** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:54 am

The asm files are outdated and haven't been used in 1.52 and upwards. You don't need them.
The 1.53 source shouldn't even include them anymore.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:28 pm

Yeah, the Visual Studio 2008 linker seems like it's trying to integrate .obj files.

Edit: nevermind. Seems like I have the 1.43 source. I just got the latest. I'll try to chronicle what I did so far.

#1: had to download the nVidia cg toolkit
#2: after installing zlib and libpng, had to rename the .lib files in the linker includes from xxxmt.lib to the respective files. (libpng.lib and zdll.lib). Feel free to correct me if I did an oopsie here
#3: Had to remove some of the paths for FMOD in the config. Also installed the FMOD toolkit

Some things I noticed that may help:
C++/Preprocessor: you can try here to turn off a few features to help you get things to compile

I won't bother telling everyone to configure VS's include/bin/lib dirs

Libpng was pretty easy to install

And success! It feels awesome

OV2 · Post by **OV2** » Sat Sep 24, 2011 12:22 pm

There is a how2compile.txt in win32/docs

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Sun Sep 25, 2011 4:32 am

Bleh. That would have been nice to know.

Anyways, I'm already messing around with it.