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A very simple version of pong for the Sony Playstation.

Simple example of a making a game. It was written quickly as an example of how to throw something together on the psx quickly.

It uses one pad for both players. UP/DOWN are player 1, Triangle/X are player 2. First to 10 wins.

I will probably get around to adding difficulty/two pad support/hiscore/sound etc.

Using Ubuntu/Mint Linux..

1. Clone this repo
2. grab gcc-10-mipsel-linux-gnu using "sudo apt install gcc-10-mipsel-linux-gnu"
3. cd to psx_pong
4. type make
5. You should then have a pong.ps-exe in your folder

To run this on a console you would need to transfer the EXE file over to the PSX somehow. You can do this old school with the cheat cart & comms routes (xplorer/AR&GS), ROM replacements for the aforementioned such as Unirom/n00brom/Caetla or even a unirom running via FreePSXBoot and a serial cable.

To run psxpong using unirom and a serial cable type "nops /exe pong.exe COM3", changing the serial port as necessary for your setup. Note: If you are using nops on linux you will need to install mono.

To run pong on an emulator use the load EXE function in your emulator.

This was written using the helloworld_and_flappycredits Pad/GPU example by Sicklebrick as a base :- https://github.com/JonathanDotCel/helloworld_and_flappycredits

Thank you also to Sickle for the QR Code and function to display it :)

Using the following Pong game logic article by William Doane :- https://drdoane.com/thinking-through-a-basic-pong-game-in-processing/

The font used was made using one of the ZX Origins fonts by damieng :- https://damieng.com/typography/zx-origins/ However, I can't remember which one I used :)

pong_packed is a compressed version using ps1-packer by Nicolas "Pixel" Noble :- https://github.com/grumpycoders/pcsx-redux/tree/main/tools/ps1-packer

For more PSX related chat join us on the psx.dev discord server - see https://psx.dev/