PocketSim DevKit - A homebrew SDK for the PocketStation

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PocketSim DevKit - A homebrew SDK for the PocketStation

Hi everyone, getting old school together. I'm not dying yet nor abandoning this blog; I've been a lot busy for the last 3 months, and I lack any ideas and no passion to do anything, but I've noticed that I even bought a second-hand Pocket Station somewhere, but bad luck; it's not kept at home. I remind myself to try to create a game on it; however, it's too difficult for me to grab all necessary devices and fully transfer the game into it.

So I decided to create my own devkit for Pocket Station. Also, examples of games also open all sources for anyone free of charge. I hope to see the new game come up with ideas rather than gorgeous graphics. This is not how to but just reveal what I've done and contribute to everyone.

Required
Windows 11
Python 3.8 or above [download]
DevkitARM (arm-none-eabi) [guide] **I've installed DevkitPro, and inside DevkitARM will find it.**
PocketSim DevKit [download v1.0] 

You should follow their instruction from all the above official guides; it's the thing to rewrite the same context here. Take your time to learn no matter what technology changes.

After you've done the first 3 required, then the last thing is to download and extract pocketsim-devkit.zip to pocketsim-devkit as shown below.

You should open README.md with your text editor first. It's not difficult to understand the manual on how to use it.

examples—contains all game source code that ships with a zip file. well-known in Famicom also famous on Mobile


sdk—contains all source code that you can read and learn how it works with Pocket Station

tools—is working as an emulator; it's written in Python, different from the sdk and examples that are written in C. I have to fix some issues about sound and also standby mode. Now sound should play correctly on PocketStation, like PK201, Pocket, etc.

Open your cmd goto inside pocketsim-devkit then type ps setup and hit Enter.


However, if you found any issue, try to run ps doctor and hit Enter; it will guide you on what you should do or something is missing from the setting required. An example found issue as below image.


Now when all is good from "ps setup" try run snake game by type, ps run examples\snake and hit Enter. You should see the CMD compile and execute pocketsim game show on screen, like the below image.


When you leave it for a while, it's going to standby mode, like the below image. You can press any key to get it back to the game screen.

Hope you enjoy it. See you next time. Bye ;)

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PS. 
"I have ADHD, so I easily lose focus and find it hard to stay engaged with things for long. If I work on something and don't get the motivation to keep going, I might end up abandoning it altogether. I truly hope to get enough support from the community to keep developing this project. Thank you so much!"






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