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:''In order to avoid a situation like the homebrew page formerly in my namespace, I'm going to be testing some things here. Everything is subject to change and/or deletion.'' | :''In order to avoid a situation like the homebrew page formerly in my namespace, I'm going to be testing some things here. Everything is subject to change and/or deletion.'' | ||
=Hello World Tutorial= | |||
This tutorial will guide you through all the necessary steps to make a Neo-Geo binary which displays the text "Hello world!". The language we will be using is 68000 assembly, but good knowledge of it is not needed. | |||
==Setting up the Development Environment== | |||
# Download [http://mamedev.org/release.html the latest version of MAME] and extract the contents somewhere you can easily remember (e.g. a directory like <code>C:\mame\</code> or <code>~/mame/</code>). | |||
# In order to run Neo-Geo software on MAME, you will need to create (or find) dumps of the various ROMs on the system motherboard. Typically these ROMs are packaged in a file called <code>neogeo.zip</code>. If you manage to find this zip file, copy it into the <code>roms</code> subdirectory of where you installed MAME. Otherwise, you will need a few files in the <code>roms/neogeo/</code> subdirectory: '''000-lo.lo''' (64KiB, the [[LO ROM]]), '''sm1.sm1''' (128KiB, the [[M1 ROM]] for sound), '''sp-s2.sp1''' (128KiB, the [[System ROM]]) and '''sfix.sfix''' (128KiB, the [[SFIX]] ROM). | |||
Latest revision as of 13:43, 22 January 2016
- In order to avoid a situation like the homebrew page formerly in my namespace, I'm going to be testing some things here. Everything is subject to change and/or deletion.
Hello World Tutorial
This tutorial will guide you through all the necessary steps to make a Neo-Geo binary which displays the text "Hello world!". The language we will be using is 68000 assembly, but good knowledge of it is not needed.
Setting up the Development Environment
- Download the latest version of MAME and extract the contents somewhere you can easily remember (e.g. a directory like
C:\mame\or~/mame/). - In order to run Neo-Geo software on MAME, you will need to create (or find) dumps of the various ROMs on the system motherboard. Typically these ROMs are packaged in a file called
neogeo.zip. If you manage to find this zip file, copy it into theromssubdirectory of where you installed MAME. Otherwise, you will need a few files in theroms/neogeo/subdirectory: 000-lo.lo (64KiB, the LO ROM), sm1.sm1 (128KiB, the M1 ROM for sound), sp-s2.sp1 (128KiB, the System ROM) and sfix.sfix (128KiB, the SFIX ROM).