An emulator, assembler, and disassembler for the Sega Game Gear
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README.md

crater

crater is an emulator for the Sega Game Gear, with an included Z80 assembler/disassembler, written in C.

Why?

While the internet is full of emulators for retro game systems, writing one is nevertheless a fun learning project.

crater is named after 31 Crateris, a star that was – for a short time in 1974 – misidentified as a moon of Mercury. Mercury was Sega’s codename for the Game Gear during development.

Installing

Only OS X and Linux are tested. You’ll need a modern compiler that supports C11 (clang preferred) and SDL 2. Using Homebrew, you can brew install sdl2; using apt, you can apt-get install libsdl2-dev.

Run make to create ./crater. To build the development version with debug symbols and no optimizations, run make DEBUG=1, which creates ./crater-dev.

crater has a number of test cases. Run the entire suite with make test; individual components can be tested by doing make test-{component}, where {component} is one of cpu, vdp, psg, asm, dis, or integrate.

Usage

Running ./crater without arguments will display a list of ROM images located in the roms/ directory, and then ask the user to pick one, or enter their own ROM path. You can provide a path directly with ./crater path/to/rom.

Add or symlink ROMs to roms/ at your leisure. Note that they must end in .gg or .bin to be auto-detected.

Add --fullscreen (-f) to enable fullscreen mode, or --scale <n> (-s <n>) to scale the game screen by an integer factor.

Add --debug (-g) to show logging information while running. Pass it twice (-gg) to show more detailed logs, including an emulator trace.

./crater -h gives (fairly basic) command-line usage, and ./crater -v gives the current version.

Assembler/Disassembler

crater has built-in support for converting Z80 assembly into ROM images, as well as attempting the reverse process (i.e., disassembling).

--assemble <input> [<output>] (-a) converts source code into a .gg binary that can be run by crater. --disassemble <input> [<output>] (-d) executes the opposite operation. If no output file is given, crater will use the name of the input file, with the extension replaced with .gg for -a and .asm for -d. By default, this will never overwrite the original filename; pass --overwrite (-r) to let crater do so.

Credits

Special thanks to SMS Power!‘s excellent development section, which has been invaluable in figuring out many of the Game Gear’s details, including ROM header structure and the memory mapping system. Various source code comments reference their pages.

Also thanks to Thomas Scherrer’s Z80 website for many useful resources about the Game Gear’s CPU, including info about undocumented opcodes and flags. Finally, credit goes to ClrHome for their helpful Z80 instruction table.