I’ve never written a single line of code, I have no idea how anything works. What is the first step towards making my own ps2 game?

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  • ps2dev

    Main PS2 Repo for build the whole environment in your local machine and/or docker image

  • As the Playstation 2 architecture is really complex, some people has make the PS2SDK library that contains a lot of pre made code ready to be used. If you want to start from scratch, do yourself a favour and use that library, also, if you don't want to setup a Linux machine to compile (that means translating C code into something that the Playstation2 can understand) the library and your project, I suggest to use the provided Docker image as described in the Docker generation section of the README.md file in the repository (oversimplifying, a Docker image is like a box that can run Linux on your computer without actually having to install it).

  • tyra

    Game engine for PlayStation 2™

  • There is also a (relatively) easier method: tyra. Tyra is an engine: it does the hard work talking to the hardware for you. You can follow the various tutorials (if I remember well, they are in C++ language, that is quite similar to C, but I suggesto to read something about it anyway) and maybe in a few hours you will have something running on the Playstation2.

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