About

ssshell is (hopefully) a be-all tool to communicate with your Sega Saturn.

Dependencies

MinGW/MSYS2

Install the following packages:

pacman -S \
  mingw-w64-x86_64-ninja \
  mingw-w64-x86_64-meson \
  mingw-w64-x86_64-libftdi

Arch Linux

Install the following packages

pacman -S ninja meson libftdi

Installation

If all requirements are met, as a normal user, perform the following to build

meson build
cd build
ninja

In order to use ssshell as a normal user, under Linux, write your own udev rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/99-usb-cart.rules

# FTDI Devices: FT4232HL/Q
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0403", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6011", MODE="0664", GROUP="plugdev"

Notes about Linux

If under Linux and D2XX Direct Drivers library is used, be sure to remove modules ftdi_sio and usbserial.

sudo rmmod ftdi_sio
sudo rmmod usbserial

Notes about Windows

The following DLL files need to be copied:

cp /mingw64/bin/libusb-1.0.dll \
   /mingw64/bin/libftdi1.dll \
   /mingw64/bin/libreadline8.dll \
   /mingw64/bin/libtermcap-0.dll \
   /path/to/bin/

Issues

Found a bug or do you have a suggestion to make ssshell even better than it already is? Create an issue here.