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SEGASATURN FAQ

Development environment



▲UNIX environment

Q ) How do you compress data in UNIX?

▲Programming BOX related

Q ) Power memory is not recognized by the Programming BOX.
Q ) I want to set the power memory to an uninitialized state.
Q ) About memory mapping when SIMM CART of Programming Box is turned on.
Q ) Regarding communication between the Programming Box and SCSI.
Q ) Regarding the programming box and PC settings.
Q ) The image output of Programming Box may become monochrome.

▲ICE/EVA board related

Q ) Even when IPI.EXE is started, "NO INTERFACE BOARD" is displayed and it cannot be used at all.

▲Hitachi Compiler/Debugger related

Q ) Which of SHCLIB.LIB, SHCPIC.LIB, and SHCNPIC.LIB should I link?
Q ) Are there any points to be careful about with SH C compiler options when developing Sega Saturn?
Q ) The source file does not appear in the file list in GUISH.
Q ) I would like to display 2-byte code characters such as kanji in the source code in GUISH.
Q ) When I start GUISH, the message "NO INTERFACE BOARD" is displayed.
Q ) I want to use GUISH to debug both master and slave.

▲Cartdev + DevSATURN environment

Q ) What is CartDev?
Q ) How to run a program that accesses a write-once CD in CartDev environment?
Q ) PowerMemory is not recognized from the debugger in CartDev+DevSaturn.
Q ) Direct DOS access or reading from a disk image is not possible with VCD.
Q ) How to run a sample that self-starts from a virtual CD in CartDev+DevSaturn?
Q ) Where does the tail coming out from the back of DevSaturn connect?

▲GNU development environment

Q ) I want to use kanji with gcc.
Q ) Regarding the GNU assembly development environment.
Q ) When compiling with gcc, an error occurs in go32.
Q ) SBL cannot be compiled with gcc 3/28 version.
Q ) Even if I increase the optimization of gcc, the speed does not increase.
Q ) Is there any good way to dump the error list generated by gcc into a file?
Q ) I want to set sections for variables and functions.
Q ) I want to input long commands from the command line.
Q ) I want to use an inline assembler in a C function.
Q ) GCC returns the message "garbage at end of number".
Q ) I want to use a divider using gcc.
Q ) I want to write code in C++.
Q ) What are some efficient coding techniques?
Q ) I would like to display a correspondence table between source and assembly.
Q ) Which make should I use?
Q ) I want to create an original library.
Q ) What is gasm?
Q ) I get the error message "can't open blah: interrupted system call".
Q ) When I try to run LD on my PC, an error message saying "Not enough memory" appears.
Q ) The linker is slow.
Q ) I want to disassemble object files and COFF files.
Q ) I would like to view the symbol information of library files and COFF files.

▲SNASM related

Q ) I want to restart snbugsat with the memory contents intact after it hangs.
Q ) I would like to use the READ/WRITE cycle condition settings and history function in SNASM.
Q ) Does SNASM have a function to dump the contents of RAM into a coff file, etc.?
Q ) Please tell me how to read the SIMM address in a SNASM environment.
Q ) How to debug with SNASM?
Q ) I can't see inside the structure with SNASM.

▲VCD/simple CD simulator related

Q ) I would like to know more about the operating models of VCD.
Q ) Please tell me the operation procedure of VCD in CartDev+DevSaturn environment.
Q ) An error occurs when I run VCDBULID.
Q ) Regarding the operating environment of the simple emulator.
Q ) Is it possible to play Cinapak or CD-DA with a simple CD simulator?
Q ) How to use the simple CD simulator?
Q ) I want to use a simple SCSI system with SGL.
Q ) What are the conditions for using the simple SCSI system?
Q ) Regarding the operation of virtual CD (things you want to confirm)
Q ) I installed Virtual CD on my PC and started VCDEMU.EXE, but it does not start properly.

▲XBAND

Q ) Only local mode starts.
Q ) I am developing with CartDev + DevSaturn, but it seems that the modem is not recognized.
Q ) I am conducting a server test with CartDev + DevSaturn, but it is not working properly.

▲Others

Q ) What are SBL and SGL?
Q ) Regarding the bin←→S28 converter.
Q ) Please tell me the specifications of S format.
Q ) Which PC do you recommend for development equipment?
Q ) addcdw does not work.
Q ) I want to make a copy of the Write Once CD.
Q ) What should I be careful about when porting from NTSC to PAL?
Q ) When I create a CD with a Yamaha writer, noise is mixed between the CDDA tracks.

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