UPDATE: Please note that SGDK has been updated since this video was created. If you are using a version of SGDK newer than 1.7, then please write "u16 ind = TILE_USER_INDEX;" instead of "u16 ind = TILE_USERINDEX;" and it should compile fine :)

It's really cool to see you teaching tutorials from everything that you learned on your SotN and Shinobi projects..

Hey all, Just an FYI: in case you're using a newer version of the SGDK, you'll want to use u16 ind = TILE_USER_INDEX; instead of u16 ind = TILE_USERINDEX;

your initiative is commendable, I can't wait to receive more tutorials from someone who already carries a big name in the Mega Drive scene!

Yea i have previously noticed palette PAL0 that actually has 16 colours but the other 3 palettes only display 15 colours as the first colours of those palettes is always transparent so in reality the megadrive can really only display 61 raw colours, ouch man those sado masochistic sega devs really were torturing the game devs with these hardware specs which is why i have to more than admire the work Pyron has done with his management of the megadrives limited colours, he really is a beast at that. BTW major thanks Pigsy for this tutorial it truely is a godsend for a noob like myself. 👍

I really hope this continues forward, you're very easy to follow along with!

Thank you for this series👍

For those who are having issues with not being able to produce the resource.h file, for me was to have java properly installed even after you run the installation for java make sure that for windows you have the environment variables under path add the java bin folder to it and make sure you close vs code or any cmd prompt then retry.

This is really cool, I have always wanted to make a Genesis game, and now I can. Once I have SGDK figured out, I’m going to make a Shadow the Hedgehog game for Genesis. Thank you for your tutorials on all this!

Just wanted to say - another successful build. And I did it from a Linux and Mac machine to boot! Definitely a very easy video to follow. Thanks!

It's just perfect ! Thank you , i start for one week and i can't stop now . Sgdk medadrive /genesis and your tutorials are addictiv.

Thanks for this! It was insanely interesting. I'm watching all your tutorials before trying it out. Can't wait!!!

I'm not sure if this info will be useful to anyone, but I had a problem where I could use genesis code to compile but couldn't run the ROM immediately. I would get a strange error saying something like "failed to open 1 for reading". I had no idea what that meant but I guessed it was a problem with the project folder being named "1 background" so i renamed it to "1background" and what do you know?? It worked! Hope this helps anyone with a similar issue.

Thank you for the amazing tutorials

Everything worked out! Very well explained :-)

Thanks!

This is really cool! Do you have a Patreon? I would like to donate to the cause for these videos!

Thanks for the tutorial ! The only thing is that I had to work directly in the SGDK folder to be able to compile or it would return errors.

I did everything you said, but the folder doesn't want to compile for some reason.

Just finished the setup and first tutorial, took some time but i got everything working, when is next episode?

Dude thank you

I see several comments in regards to the error where it can't find resources.h. Like the others it can't find the file and gives error 127 when trying to compile.

this is so frustrating Pigsy, it's not working for me at all. when I try to compile it says it can't read the files from resources.h. I have no idea what I'm doing, I can't even do the first tutorial. before I even start it says cannot open source file libres.h Gutted.

I did all the steps, but where is "main c" it says there is an error, and I can't start the emulator with the castlevania tech demo as it appears at the end of the tutorial. Help! Grateful.

Thanks

He has a Sega emulator in Russian, how do I convert it to English

Love the Videos! Need Help tho: Having an issue right off the bat with this one, got 3 errors, which may only actually be 2 error, b ut Idk. The terminal is saying it is having issues opening the source file Genesis.h and the second error is it "cannot open sources file resource.h". I can offer more pics or info if needed. I followed the setup video, its possible I missed something but I'm fairly certain I set up everything correctly and my programming is ok, but let me know what yall think of the errors I shared. Would love to finish this tutorial so I can move on.

Awesome 👍

Я сделал это!! Первый урок урок пройден! Все получилось!!! Спасибо!

I followed the previous video, but I'm getting stuck @3:32 here. I didn't know I needed to install the Genesis Code extension in Visual Studio Code to get some of these run commands, and now that I have them and have restarted VSC, all that I get are errors that the module '%GDK%' could not be loaded any time I try to compile.

HELP: I tried making a new background on my own and now it won’t compile. Something about the image being 32 BPP

10/10

Hey Pigsy, I can compile, and run everything fine, however intellisense is simply not recognizing anything related to SGDK. I have no red squiggles but I get no autocomplete for any of the SGDK functions. Can you please advise as to why this might be?

Tried to load my own images and got artifacts. How to properly export images for sgdk?

I cant find Genesis Code: when i do shift ctrl p could someone help?

I'm getting an 'undefined reference to hintCB' error on trying to compile and I have no idea what that means. Google search came up short as well. Any help on this much appreciated. That aside, great stuff so far Pigsy! Hope I'll be able to follow your tuts to the end EDIT: No wait, it's all good. I needed to roll back from gsdk 1.80 to 1.70. Now I just get some incompatible type warnings for bools :} So if anyone else has weird compiler errors, changing your gsdk version might help.

genesis compile doesnt work for me. I take java error. You could show us resources.h file, we could write manually.

Did i miss something? I can not find this template to download.

Hello, know you some Training Programms to Train to Programm like this?

Que medidas en Pixel por fondo? Hice un fondo de 640 Pixel 224 Pixel pero no sale entero

How do you get it to show you all the attributes that it is looking for in the different functions? It's really helpful in the video but my Visual Studio Code only occasionally shows the attributes that need to be filled out and I don't know how to get it to show them again. Thanks!

How do you do palette cycling?

When I try to compile following along the example I get "cannot open source file resources.h"

Thank you for this tutorial series. Great. But I have one problem. When I click on the .png files for background and foreground in VS Code, everything looks fine. Colored. When I compile the code and let it run in an emulator, Blastem or Gens, background an foreground are always green. No colors. Any idea what happens?

This does not work. Have done the things in the last setup video. Now all of the sudden the Pigsy SGDK template is used and not SEGA_VSCode_Template-master. That was not in the first video. When creating the resource.res file there are no color coding when I type in the IMAGE row. When I try to compile CTRL+SHIFT+P No option for Genesis Code: Compile & Run is in the list. Something is not working with the new template that i downloaded from Dropbox. Using VSC 1.87.1 EDIT: Missed the config at the end in the first video. Did the config from Retro Sega Dev video in your video list. But when using the config in the first video I get some errors %GDK%\bin\make -f %GDK%\makefile.gen release && START /B C:\Users\jan\Dropbox\Development\SEGA\Blastem\blastem.exe %CD%/out/rom.bin At line:1 char:46 + %GDK%\bin\make -f %GDK%\makefile.gen release && START /B C:\Users\jan ... + ~~ The token '&&' is not a valid statement separator in this version. + CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidEndOfLine EDIT 2: =========================== Never mind. I was using the power shell. Needed to close the terminal and re-open it to use the cmd in stead. Everything is working now. Sorry to spam the comments

Attempt 1: "#include " was seen as an error, and therefore couldn't compile

not working, the first lesson worked but the genesis header file and resources.res files cant be found...red lines underneath...wah

Can't figure out why I keep getting corruption when implementing a scrolling foreground. Finished the rest of the tutorials just trying to add some stuff and keep getting stuck at this. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h9-aZJydvt2llJ8.html

hi just wondering if you can help im getting a res/resources no such file or directory error and cant compile any idea why? new to visual studios so any help would mean alot :)

Will you ever do a tutorial on doing pseudo 3D sprites and backgrounds, like Outrun, super hang on etc?

Can this be done with CodeBlocks?

I need help compiling the ROM, it keeps on saying "C:\Users\username\Desktop\backround>%GDK%\bin\make -f %GDK%\makefile.gen release The system cannot find the path specified." Am I doing something wrong?

Amazing tutorial, but would you possibly know why I cant use any of those functions (such as Compile and Compile & Run)? It surely cant be because the emulator path is set to BlastEm instead of Gens, right?

i followed the vid until 10:37 when i hit compile it doesnt give me the rom file for some reason

Nicely done, but this didn't work for me - my vdp.h has 2 underscores in the TILE_USER_INDEX define...it's the Feb 22 release (1.70). My VS Code setup also sucks, won't compile and very few code completes shown, the Genesis code addon seems very flakey, you should maybe do a 'bare bones' version with command line compiles etc?

Bro, I was so excited about making a game.. now I've spent three days trying to switch the background image for my own seamless one I found, I resized and cropped it to the same size (512x256) then in Gimp, Image -> Mode -> Indexed, set it to 16 colors, change back to RGB then Indexed mode again, choose the mega drive palette I have imported, uncheck the "Remove unused colors from tilemap" option... I have tried a billion different combinations, 15, 16, png, bmp.. I only get messed up graphics, nothing, one color covering the screen or an emulator error "M68K attempted to execute code at unmapped address 83838B68" 😫 I'm losing my mind over the fact that I can't find any information about how to do this.

Im getting error 127 whenever I try to compile.

Okay I think I broke it halp

Did i miss something here, or do you have an extra file that wasn't mentioned by the name of resources.h that we are referencing but that we haven't yet created?

HELP!!! %GDK%\bin\make : The module '%GDK%' could not be loaded. For more information, run 'Import-Module %GDK%'. At line:1 char:1 + %GDK%\bin\make -f %GDK%\makefile.gen debug + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (%GDK%\bin\make:String) [], CommandNotFoundException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CouldNotAutoLoadModule What am I missing here, i feel like ive double checked ive followed everything XD

None of it is working for me although I followed the initial setup perfectly :c Here's the error I'm getting: C:\Users\{my username}\Desktop\SGDK_Projects\Templates\1 backgrounds>%GDK%\bin\make -f %GDK%\makefile.gen release C:/SGDK/bin/mkdir.exe -p src/boot C:/SGDK/bin/mkdir.exe -p out C:/SGDK/bin/mkdir.exe -p out/src/ C:/SGDK/bin/gcc.exe -DSGDK_GCC -m68000 -Wall -Wextra -Wno-shift-negative-value -Wno-main -Wno-unused-parameter -fno-builtin -fms-extensions -Iinc -Isrc -Ires -IC:/SGDK/inc -IC:/SGDK/res -BC:/SGDK/bin -O3 -fuse-linker-plugin -fno-web -fno-gcse -fno-unit-at-a-time -fomit-frame-pointer -flto -MMD -c src/main.c -o out/src/main.o src/main.c: In function 'main': src/main.c:7:15: error: 'TILE_USERINDEX' undeclared (first use in this function) u16 ind = TILE_USERINDEX; ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ src/main.c:7:15: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in src/main.c:9:5: warning: implicit declaration of function 'VDP8drawImageEx' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] VDP8drawImageEx(BG_B, &bg1, TILE_ATTR_FULL(PAL0, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, ind), 0, 0, FALSE, TRUE); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ make: *** [out/src/main.o] Error 1

Keep getting errors!!! stuck on this one. It says it doesn't know what type name IMAGE is in the resources.res but intelisense seems to know its a thing. My &bg1 variable isn't carrying over into main.c tho, intellisense doesnt see it over there. /SGDK/projects/backgroundproject/src/res/resources.res:1:1: error: unknown type name 'IMAGE' IMAGE bg1 "background.png" BEST ALL ^~~~~

if you're reading this, TILE_USERINDEX is now TILE_USER_INDEX