I edited the competition thread a bit (moved comments out of that thread to this, combined 7shades posts into one, etc). Let me know if someone wants something changed.
Contest organizers: I changed my zip file at 19:06 PM, after the contest deadline due to an issue in my .cue. Please deduct points as necessary.
Ran out of time, but here's Sweeper Squad 0.9. 12-player Mine Sweeper clone. Runs at 480i and includes mouse support. Will finish this blurb tomorrow.
@not-AI-generated ,
Cool stuff. Obviously you will get more people to try out your game if you implement controller support. But I'm sure you know that and ran out of time.
I swear there is a memory mapped register you can use for random (pseudo random?) values on the Saturn. If not you can...
@MAZter ,
Another thing you can try is running satconv (or another tool) to dump the peripheral codes from each game ISO. According to Gamefaqs the keyboard code is "K".
I'm trying to use @cafe-alpha 's Save Data Manager V6.483 by burning pskair_sdm.iso from pskai_release_20211113. On Yabause it looks like it works. On my real Saturn (via swap-trick) I can get it to boot to the "Saturn Save Data Manager -- V6.483" title bar and then nothing. It looks like...
Johannes recommends IrfanView: 8bit Demo Questions · Issue #57 · johannes-fetz/joengine
I recall having issues with GIMP converting to TGA but IrfanView worked. Assuming you are using 24-bit images: TGA, no compression, export bottom left. I believe that should work.
Can you extract your SSF save to the .BUP file format? With the .BUP save you can inject into into a ISO and load it on any emulator (using Save Data Manager, Save Game Copier etc).
I ended up going with a large (1024 bitmap). I checked in my code to GitHub - slinga-homebrew/libslinga: Sega Saturn save game library.
The basic idea is each bit in the bitmap represents a block on the partition.
g_SAT_bitmap[] is a large bitmap used to store free\busy blocks
each bitmap...
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