SGDK VS pvsneslib

Examples: - Someone I know created machine-optimized library in c and asm to accelerate compression, erasure coding, and encryption on Intel Xeon CPUs (https://github.com/intel/isa-l) which runs those ops WAY faster than the standard linux libraries. - My friend is making a retro SEGA genesis game using a C and asm dev kit (https://github.com/Stephane-D/SGDK)

Genesis fortunately has a really mature homebrew SDK that uses C https://github.com/Stephane-D/SGDK . People have made plenty of homebrew titles over the years for these consoles and distributed them freely, sold the roms, or programmed new cartridges.

If you are specifically looking into the Genesis you should look into SGDK, the sega development toolkit https://github.com/Stephane-D/SGDK.

There's a lot of retro dev happening now across the board. SGDK has led to a big interest in making Genesis/Megadrive games. Jo Engine is increasing interest in the Saturn, etc. I'm also attempting to help contribute by writing a book on Neo Geo development (it has a long ways to go)

https://github.com/Stephane-D/SGDK

https://www.jo-engine.org/

a Saturn homebrew showcase - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqKKExcTaKo

https://neobook.mattgreer.dev

Could this be useful from the megadrive SDK? https://github.com/Stephane-D/SGDK/wiki/Tuto-Maths

I had the same idea for the same reason. I have not started anything yet but I was going to try developing a Sega Genesis/Megadrive game using an SDK like https://github.com/Stephane-D/sgdk

The MD version was developed with SGDK .

I 100% recommend starting with C and PVSNESlib (https://github.com/alekmaul/pvsneslib) as suggested by others redditors.

Look like https://github.com/alekmaul/pvsneslib/ is a good option to start with. If you all have any other suggestions please feel free to share!

SNES coding is hard as fuck and probably the worst way to learn programming if you start from scratch. It might be a little less painful with a C library like PVSneslib (https://github.com/alekmaul/pvsneslib), but you'll eventually have to learn 6502 assembly and read tons of documentation to harness SNES programming.

For the snes you could use pvsneslib which is a C library (it also lets you write deeper stuff in assembly). it is recommended you check the snes wiki for programming before diving into code and you should get the basics of assembly as well for snes development