Eidolon´s Inn - Genesis

Sega Genesis / Mega Drive
Development

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Welcome to the Genesis development section of Eidolon's Inn! You will find useful tools and documents on this page which will help you understand the inner workings of the Genesis. If you have further questions, you should ask them in The Tavern - there's some folk around which can help you. At the bottom of the page, you will find some links to homepages of people who are currently developing software for the Genesis.

Development Tools

	File description
	Genesis OS ROM NEW The small OS ROM of the newer Genesis models, displaying "Produced by or under license from Sega Enterprises Ltd."
	Sega Checksummer Tool to compute the Sega-specific checksum of ROMs. Written by Eidolon.
	ROM Padder v1.00 Enlarges a binary ROM to a specific mbit value. Written by Eidolon.
	Genesis Sprite Editor This nice utility can be used to alter the sprites in some Genesis games.
	Genesis Tile Editor A Win32 program, written by Flavio, which can be used to edit Genesis 8x8 tiles.
	MakeSound Written by Kaneda, this tool can convert RAW sound samples to ASM files to be used with Genesis ASM compilers.
	MakeTile Written by Kaneda. This tool converts BMP files to ASM files for including with ASM or C code.
	BMP2TILE v2.0 Written by Kaneda. This tool converts BMP files to ASM files for including with ASM or C code.
	MakeMap Written by Kaneda. Can be used to convert tile maps which were created with WGT (this tool will be added here soon) to a format usable for Genesis C or ASM programming.
	MakeSprite Written by Kaneda. Converts BMP files to ASM files for including with ASM or C code.
	JAS Assembler NEW Modified by Charles Doty for the Sega Genesis; comes with demo sourcecodes.
	A68K NEW 680x0 crossassembler for MSDOS
	Sozobon C Compiler NEW Modified by Paul Lee to create Genesis code
	X68K NEW Another 680x0 assembler.
	Psy-Q assemblers NEW Contains 68000 assemblers for the Genesis and Sega CD alongside with some other tools which were once part of a Sega CD development system. Very recommended!

General 68000 documentation

	68000 instruction set summary
	Object codes for the 680x0
	Reference of all 68000 commands
	Comprehensive description of all 68000 commands in HTML format
	Official 68000 programmer's manual by Motorola (Acrobat format)
	68K FAQ in HTML format
	Another detailed description of the 68000 instruction set

General Z80 documentation

	Z80 command set
	FAQs on the Z80
	Detailed HTML description of the Z80 command set
	General information on the Z80
	Table with Z80 opcodes

System documentation

	Complete documentation about the Genesis ROM format
	Game Genie codes on the Genesis
	Sega Genesis hardware internals
	A very complete Genesis document
	Sega Programming FAQ, 6th edition (final)
	Information on how the Genesis produces sound and music
	Another file describing the structure of Genesis ROMs
	Genesis memory maps, HTML/GIF format
	Small document written by Flavio describing how to read out the six-button joypad
	Genesis Technical Notes 3rd Edition, written by Bart Trzynadlowski

Links

*EPR*	The Emulation Programmer's Repository also has a large collection of technical documentation, not only for Sega consoles.
*Sega Haven*	Ellum's Sega Haven also has a good amount of technical documents.
*Kaneda's homepage*	Currently working on some SegaCD-related stuff and a Jump'n'Run game project.
*Kevin Banks' homepage*	Author of games like Moonbase and Quadrant. Has lots of source codes on his site which should help programming newbies enormously.
*Bill Eubanks' homepage*	Currently developing a Galaga clone for the Genesis, called "SeGala"
*Paul Lee's homepage*	Paul programmed Berzerk for the Genesis.
*David Webster's homepage*	Also developing for the Genesis
*Bart Trzynadlowski's homepage*	Bart is currently developing a Genesis emulator called Genital. He is the author of the tool GROM and the Genesis Technical Notes.

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