What do I need to start developing?

This stuff is all very useful. What is the default set up that Sony reccomends, or that game houses use?

Linux 6.1 on a PC with Sony PS2 SDK - > Tool ?

Be interesting to see pics of these things being used by computer game companies. Squenix or Konami, you get the idea.

 

The one I bought used to be owned by 3DO. Hopefully it has some Army Men beta's or source code on it.

edit: I found a place where I could aquire the Official Sony Ps2 TOOL SDK. Here is the contents of the "package".

http://pastebin.com/n4XZ7ttK

Does this seem right? I dont want to get it and then find out its not the right thing/

 

Bump!

 

That looks right, however it some more things that I don't have.

 

It looks definitely like that "usual" archive, as it also contains some stuff not included with the official SDK.
Please note that it will not work as-is when copied to your development PC. The SDK is using symbolic links in its original environment, which got trashed when it has been copied. Have a look for 0-byte files, these are generally an indication that a symlink was expected to be there. You need to delete and "ln -s" to the correct target in order to get it to work (at least the IOP gcc).

Sony recommended an (as-of today) ancient Red Hat Linux, but the applications should work on later ones as well. But as all communication between the TOOL and applications is performed via a documented protocol (DECI2), you are not really required to use either Sony's or SNSys' applications; you can build your own if you like :thumbsup:.

 

Could you put that in lamens terms please? (Aka easy to understand) lol.

What do I need to go to get it to work? Ive used linux a lot in my life as well as the command line. But its been ages.

So, how do I go about setting the correct target? Do I need to download anything else? Or is the target already in the OS?

 

Bump

 

Sorry, I don't remember the specifics. Just copy it to your hard drive, set up the environment variables as stated in the included docs, then try to compile the samples. It will fail (at least for the IOP ones), but the error message indicates which path has been borked.

 

Alright. Then how do I fix that path?

 

By creating the necessary symlinks .

You can also try this, it should work as well: after unpacking the archive, you should find two 0-byte files in /usr/local/sce/iop, named "include" and "lib". Remove these. Then, execute /usr/local/sce/iop/install/Install.sh, and it should create the necessary structures.
In case you want to install the SDK to some different directory, pass the corresponding new paths to Install.sh (the comment at its start mentions which directory paths it needs to know).

Afterward, just try to compile the includes samples for both EE and IOP. If the compilers are set up correctly, it will work; otherwise, it will give some more or less meaningful error messages. Post them here, and we'll see what to do then.