About

This project's goal is compiling a game across multiple consoles and computers. The game's code is stored in the /game directory.

Currently most systems don't compile. Check the TO-DO section below to see what systems currently build.

TO-DO

• 3DS
• Android
• DreamCast (no TTF lib)
• iOS
• Linux
• MacOS
• Mac OS X (no PPC Frameworks)
• PlayStation 2 (issues loading mixer and ttf assets from CD)
• PSVita
• Switch
• Windows 9x
• Windows
• Web
• Wii
• Wii U (builds, but black screen)
• Xbox (Original) (no audio)
• Xbox (UWP)

How To Build:

3DS

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Install DevKitPro. Open DevKitPro > MSys2. Type pacman -S 3ds-portlibs and install ALL. In the project directory, CD to the /3ds directory, type make.

Android

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Using Windows, install Android Studio. Download the SDL2 release source's include, src and Android.mk folders and files to the android\app\jni\SDL directory. Do the same with SDL2_mixer and SDL2_ttf. Copy the game\res directory to android\app\src\main\assets directory. Open the android directory with Android Studio, press Build > Make Project. If you want to add more source code files, edit the android\app\jni\src\Android.mk file.

DreamCast

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Use a Linux distro like Ubuntu (WSL for Windows users). Setup KOS first, then OpenGL. In the project directory, CD to /dreamcast, type make.

GameCube

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Install DevKitPro. Open DevKitPro > MSys2. Type pacman -S gamecube-portlibs and install ALL. In the project directory, CD to the /gamecube directory, type make.

iOS

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On a Mac computer, download SDL2, SDL2_ttf and SDL2_mixer sources. Unzip their contents into their ios/libs directories. Open project/project.xcodeproj with XCode, press build.

Linux

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Use a Linux distro like Ubuntu (WSL for Windows users). In Terminal, type sudo apt update, then sudo apt install build-essential libsdl2-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev, then in the project directory, CD to the /linux directory. Now type make.

MacOS

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On a Mac computer, download SDL2 dmg, SDL2_ttf dmg and SDL2_mixer dmg open the DMGs, place the framework files in the /library/frameworks directory. Open macos/game.xcodeproj with XCode, press build.

PlayStation 2

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On Windows, download Docker. Run docker, now open a command prompt at the RetroGameBuilder directory. Type: docker run --rm -it -v %cd%:/usr/local/project -w /usr/local/project ps2dev/ps2dev sh. You should now be in the Docker engine. Type: apk add make mpc1-dev mpfr freetype libpng xorriso, then cd ./ps2, make.

To build an iso disc image, use the command mkisofs ./APP -o ./game.iso -allow-lowercase

PSVita

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Use a Linux distro like Ubuntu (WSL for Windows users). First install VitaSDK. In the project directory, CD to the /psvita directory, then chmod a+x ./psvita.sh, and run ./build.sh. In /build you will have your .vpk file.

Switch

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Install DevKitPro. Open DevKitPro > MSys2. Type pacman -S switch-portlibs and install ALL. In the project directory, CD to the /switch directory, type make.

Web

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• Clone https://github.com/emscripten-core/emsdk.git. Navigate to emsdk dir.
• Linux/MacOS: ./emsdk install latest, ./emsdk activate latest, source ./emsdk_env.sh. Don't close Terminal. Go back to /web dir, type chmod a+x build.sh and ./build.sh.
• Windows: emsdk install latest, emsdk activate latest, emsdk_env.bat. Don't close command window. Go back to /web dir and run build.bat
• For testing, run emrun build/game.html.

If you plan on embeding the game into a website, you may want to change the canvas element to: <canvas class="emscripten" id="canvas" tabindex=1></canvas> and add the script document.getElementById('canvas').focus();. Also delete the emscripten svg and use style="display:none;" on the textarea output.

Wii

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Install DevKitPro. Open DevKitPro > MSys2. Type pacman -S wii-portlibs and install ALL. In the project directory, CD to the /wii directory, type make. Inside the wii/apps/SharkShark directory should now be a res folder and boot.dol file. Copy the apps folder to your Wii SD card and launch through the Homebrew Browser app.

Wii U

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1. Install DevKitPro. Open DevKitPro > MSys2. Type pacman -S wiiu-portlibs and install ALL.
2. Install libromfs-wiiu:

git clone https://github.com/yawut/libromfs-wiiu.git
cd libromfs-wiiu
make
sudo make install

3. In the project directory, CD to the /wiiu directory, type make.

Windows

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On a Windows computer, download SDL2 vc zip, TTF vc zip, Mixer vc zip unzip lib and includes directories to the windows\sdl2-vc directory. Open windows\game.sln file with Visual Studio, press build.

Windows 9x (old)

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On a Windows (95, 98, ME) computer, download SDL VC6 zip, TTF VC6 zip, Mixer VC6 zip unzip includes directories to the win9x\sdl-vc directory, and the lib directory files to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Lib directory. Open win9x\game.sln file with Visual Studio 6.0, press build.

Xbox (original)

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Use a Linux distro like Ubuntu (WSL for Windows users).

First time setup:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential cmake flex bison clang lld git llvm
cd ./xbox
sudo git clone --recursive https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/nxdk.git ./nxdk

Copy this Makefile text, place the text at the top of the nxdk/lib/sdl's Makefile.

To build:

./nxdk/bin/activate
make

Your .xbe file will be in the bin directory.

Xbox (UWP)

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Install Visual Studio with C++ UWP stuff. Download SDL2 source code releases (TTF and Mixer) and place zip contents into uwp-xbone/sdl-sln directories. Copy game/res directory to uwp-xbone\XboxSDL. Click build or debug on your console.

If SDL TTF Mixer projects are missing/blank even after adding source code to the uwp-xbone/sdl-sln directory, you have to add the VisualC-WinRT/*.vcxproj files. On TTF and Mixer you need to Add > Reference SDL-UWP, and on the game project, Add > Reference SDL TTF and Mixer. If it still doesn't build and says it can't find the .h files, you have to open the game project properties and add the include directory paths.

NOTE: The game/res folder path is hard coded in the game project's .vcxproj file.