Tutorials/Homebrew

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This is the index article for the Homebrew subsection of the Tutorials part of the wiki. It will detail how to create a development environment for your SNES homebrew using Asar as well as initialize the SNES and show a flashing animation on the screen.

Necessary Tools

First you will need a text editor such as Vim, Notepad++, and so on, so as to write the code.
An emulator. For the purposes of accuracy, we will be using bsnes-plus by Revenant.
An assembler. We will be using Asar.
Documentation. A download to a mother-lode of docs is available in the snesbase archive.

Using Asar whenever

Go on your System Properties in the Control Panel. Once there, click on Advanced System Settings and go on the advanced tab.
Click on Environment Variables and add Asar's current location to the PATH variable by double clicking it and appending it on the end.
This allows you to call Asar in a terminal regardless of its position.

Creating Batch Files for Asar

Step 1: Initializing the SNES

Step 2: Writing a Color to the Screen

Step 3: Make it Flash!

(To be finished orz)

Index of further tutorials