Saturn Satisfier: Menu

This project is not yet public. Please keep it under your hat until I officially open the source. Thank you!

This is the menu code for Professor Abrasive's forthcoming Saturn Satisfier card. This card will jack in to the MPEG card slot on a Sega Saturn, and allows you to connect a USB thumb drive or hard disk. This menu provides a user interface to allow you to choose boot images, manage save games, and so forth. Or it will when it's done.

The menu is open source, though the Satisfier itself is not. This means you can extend or replace the interface and features as you please. The disk access API is also exposed, so Saturn developers can add native USB drive access to their software.

Status

This is pre-alpha software.

There is a Yabause fork with Satisfier emulation support here; this is partially complete. Currently supports the filesystem API; drive emulation is still to come. The filesystem API emulation uses some fairly recent POSIX features and may not work on Windows. Patches welcome.

The menu itself is nonexistent at the time of writing; the build infrastructure works, and you can make filesystem calls.

Building

To get started:

git clone https://github.com/cyberwarriorx/iapetus.git
git clone https://github.com/abrasive/satisfier.git
cd satisfier
make

This will configure and build Iapetus, then the Satisfier menu. You may need to edit the Makefile to set your cross compiler and the path to your Iapetus checkout. The default toolchain prefix is sh-none-elf-.

Testing

To boot the menu in Yabause, set the emulator to use the freshly compiled out/menu.bin as the MPEG ROM. You may need a CD in the emulated drive to boot successfully; at the time of writing, a clean boot is indicated by a fade to black from the CD player screen.

You may wish to compile Yabause with -DSATIS_DEBUG to get Satisfier-related messages written to the log (eg. by configuring with cmake -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS:STRING=-DSATIS_DEBUG).