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Nintendo 64 Notes

This project was originally written for SDL2, but was abstracted so that alternate system implementations could be provided on top of the System base struct.

This branch uses the open-source libdragon SDK to run on the Nintendo 64.

Port Status

As of right now, the implementation is incomplete and highly experimental.

Prerequisites

Install libdragon

See https://github.com/DragonMinded/libdragon for instructions.

Compile and install zlib for libdragon

This game uses zlib to compress resources. It might make sense to decompress the files so that the N64 doesn't have to spend a bunch of time decompressing at run-time, but for the short term the simplest solution is to preserve the game files as-is.

You will need to download, cross-compile, and install zlib into your N64 SDK:

curl -O https://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz
tar -xf zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz
cd zlib-1.2.11
prefix=${N64_INST}/mips64-elf CROSS_PREFIX=${N64_INST}/bin/mips64-elf- ./configure
make install

Building the ROM

The build process expects the game files to be present in the game directory. You will need to provide these yourself. This project uses the MS-DOS version, and should support either "Out Of This World" or "Another World" game files. Only the bank files and memlist.bin are actually needed.

To build the ROM for yourself, run buildN64.bash