Video of the game in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5n9IxSQH1M
Developed as an extension to a first year group project at Imperial College London.
Bare Metal 3D rail shooter game
- 5800 lines of ARM assembly (ARMv6 + VFP1)
- Software rasterizer
- 3D objects
- 2D billboards
- Sound using DMA
- NES controller input
- Math & utility library
- GitHub: https://github.com/ICTeam28/PiFox
- Emulator: https://github.com/ICTeam28/PiEmu
Using your favourite Linux package manager, install:
- arm-none-eabi-binutils
- cmake
The project uses CMake and requires an ARM assembler supporting GNU as syntax.
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
PiEmu (https://github.com/ICTeam28/PiEmu) can run the game without sound. Assuming PiFox and PiEmu have been cloned in the same directory and both are built, PiEmu must be invoked with the following command inside PiFox's build directory:
../../PiEmu/build/piemu --graphics --quiet --memory=256M --addr=65536 --nes kernel.img
A qemu branch can be used to emulate the game at a higher framerate, but sound must be disabled. (https://github.com/Torlus/qemu/tree/rpi)
In order to be compatible with qemu, the kernel must be loaded at address 0x10000.
disable_overscan=1
disable_pvt=1
force_turbo=1
gpu_mem_256=160
gpu_mem_512=316
cma_lwm=16
cma_hwm=32
kernel_address=65536
| NES | Raspberry Pi |
|---|---|
| GND | Ground |
| VCC | 3v3 |
| CUP | GPIO 10 |
| OUT 0 | GPIO 11 |
| D1 | GPIO 4 |
Nandor Licker
- Email: nandor.licker13[at]imperial.ac.uk
- Github @nandor
Ilija Radosavovic
- Email: ilija.radosavovic13[at]imperial.ac.uk
- Github @ir413
David Avedissian
- Email: david.avedissian13[at]imperial.ac.uk
- Github @davedissian
- Twitter @davedissian
Nic Prettejohn
- Email: nicolas.prettejohn13[at]imperial.ac.uk
- Github @nkp
- Twitter @thisisnkp
Special thanks to chpatrick (Patrick Chilton) for his advice.