mdemu

Sonic the Hedgehog (PAL 50) on Wayland (KDE Plasma)

Motive:

The aim with this project is to provide myself with my own surrogates means of emulating one of my favourite games consoles.

Being my major breakout into the ever-growing, enigmatic world of Reverse Engineering and Low Level Programming, this project aims to showcase my expertise in said field.

Building:

Built using the ANSI C99 standard

git clone

make clean

make

the following output should be an executable should mdemu

From there, drag and drop your ROM and enjoy!

Documentation used:

● Motorolla 68000 Programmer Manual: https://www.nxp.com/files-static/archives/doc/ref_manual/M68000PRM.pdf

● Motorolla 68000 User Manual: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/reference-manual/MC68000UM.pdf

● M68000 Assembly Programming: https://www.inf.pucrs.br/~calazans/undergrad/orgcomp_EC/mat_microproc/MC6800-AssemblyLProg.pdf

● RasterScroll for useful documentation on MD Graphics: https://rasterscroll.com/mdgraphics/

● PlutieDev's Assembly Programming documentation for the MD: https://plutiedev.com/

● SEGA Mega Drive Technical Manual, this is just a great all rounder for understanding the Mega Drive's Hardware: https://segaretro.org/images/a/a2/Genesis_Software_Manual.pdf

● Zilog Z80 CPU Manual: http://www.z80.info/zip/um0081.pdf

● Sonic Retro ASM to Hex Opcode reference: http://info.sonicretro.org/SCHG:68000_ASM-to-Hex_Code_Reference

● VDP: https://md.railgun.works/index.php?title=VDP