yabasic-tools

Please see my blogpost here on more information about this repo.

Usage

Prerequisites

For playtesting:

• PS2 Demo Disc with YaBasic, for example: PBPX-95205
• A good ol' PlayStation 2 or PS2 emulator (PCSX2 for example)

For the tools:

• Jacksum and mymc (found in this repo)
• Java installed and in your $PATH (for Jacksum)
• Optionally (the Batch file should take care of this): PowerShell with RemoteSigned execution policy enabled (how-to or in short):
  • Open a PowerShell as Administrator
  • Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
  • Choose "A" (Yes to All)

How-To

• Check out this repository
• Change the BASEDIR in the crc_and_memcard.bat to your work directory
• Change the MEMDIR to the directory with your PCSX2 memory card file
  • Alternatively you can use crc_only.bat if you want to copy the source to a real memory card and play on your PlayStation 2)
• I've included a memory card file (Mcd001.ps2) with a sample source code (BESCES-50008SAMPLE) so you know how the structure needs to look like (icon.sys, icon.ico and the code with checksum)
• Put your source code in the "Source" directory with .vb (*) as extension
• Run the Batch file

*: I'm using .vb (Visual Basic) as an extension, because that's the closest thing to good syntax highlighting in Notepad++ as you can get with Basic. Feel free to make you own YaBasic syntax highlighting with UDL and share the plugin!

Tech

• Jacksum: calculate CRC32_BZIP2
• mymc: manipulate PCSX2 memory cards
• PowerShell and Batch code by me
• Game source code by me

Development

Want to contribute? Great! Just create a merge request. Having a problem? Open an issue and I'll try to help.

License

MIT

Free Software, Hell Yeah!