Saturn Development vs Genesis Development

[Edge-`]

Heya Everyone,

Had a quick question of those of you who have done a bit of programming for both the Saturn and the Genesis (using ASM or even SGCC). I was wondering, in your opinion, which is easer to develop in as far as doing 2D games. The Saturn has a more developed C compiler and from what I can tell some nice standardized functinos for displaying text/sprites. But I'm told that the Genesis has a very nice, simple methods of displaying graphics.

Just curious what you guys think is easier to do 2D programming with 😀. Thanks in advance!

 

[Mask of Destiny]

The Genesis hardware is quite simple, so if you're banging the hardware directly, it is much easier to program for (well except that you have to deal with VRAM/sprite-rendering limitations). However, the Genesis C environment is homebrew whereas the Saturn C environment is based on the official devkit. For obvious reasons the Saturn C environment is much more feature rich.

I haven't done any Saturn programming, so it's hard for me to say which is easier overall.

 

[AntiPasta]

well, I have only done a little hardware-level Saturn programming (in ASM) and Megadrive/Genesis dev just *GOTTA* be harder... especially if you want to push the system, as the Saturn's architecture is of course a lot more complicated.