Quantum Burst

A bullet hell style space shooter written for the Sega Genesis.

Development

Development is set-up for Windows only, and has been tested only on Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Prerequisites

• Python
• Java

Build

Build scripts are provided for both powershell and cmd. They will process all the files under game/res, game/inc and game/src to produce a rom.bin file in the game/out directory. After this is done the checksum will be calculated and rom_final.bin generated with the correct checksum.

powershell

.\build.ps1 [-BuildType] [-Revision] [-Rebuild]

• -BuildType - Can be any of Debug, Release, Clean or ASM. If omitted will default to Release.
• -Revision - Can be any integer value of 99 or less. If omitted will default to 99.
• -Rebuild - Will run a Clean before a Debug or Release build. This has no effect on other build types.

Note

When running powershell you may need to start your shell with -ExecutionPolicy Bypass in order to run the script.

cmd

build.bat [build-type] [revision]

• build-type - Can be any of Debug, Release, Clean or ASM. If omitted will default to same default as powershell script.
• revision - Can be any integer value of 99 or less. If omitted will default to same default as powershell script.

Note

This method will always do a rebuild.

Debugging

Sadly, most tooling doesn't allow good, feature rich, debugging, it's recommended to use the log() helper along with the Gens KMod emulator to do log based debugging.