jvisser / golden-axe-32x-edition

Golden Axe ROM hack for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis that adds 32X support

Golden Axe 32X edition

Golden Axe 32X conversion patch for the original Sega Mega Drive game.

How to build

Prerequisites

Required

• rom/rom.bin: Golden Axe ROM image file
  • SHA256: e9f5340ecf8151253eb6fcda136c4d4d8940e373340ce2eeb2bf24f9f6c1004d
• jdk 17+: To build and run the tools
• maven 3+: To build the tools
• marsdev: To build the patch file.
  • Version 2022.02 was used. This still included the mdcomp tools which are required.

Optional

• flips: To apply the patch file

Build targets

Run once:

• make init

Run either:

• make to produce the IPS patch file out/patch.ips
• make patch to run make and apply the patch file to produce out/rom.32x
  • This requires flips

Other targets

• make clean: Clean the output directory
• make rebuild: Clean + make
• make dump-gfx: Dump original game graphics and visual metadata for game resources defined in config/datavis.yaml to directory dump.