Golden Axe 32X edition

Golden Axe 32X conversion patch for the original Sega Mega Drive game.

How to build

Prerequisites

Required

rom/rom.bin: Golden Axe ROM image file
- SHA256: e9f5340ecf8151253eb6fcda136c4d4d8940e373340ce2eeb2bf24f9f6c1004d
jdk 17+: To build and run the tools
maven 3+: To build the tools
marsdev: To build the patch file.
- Version 2022.02 was used. This still included the mdcomp tools which are required.

Optional

flips: To apply the patch file

Build targets

Run once:

make init

Run either:

make to produce the IPS patch file out/patch.ips
make patch to run make and apply the patch file to produce out/rom.32x
- This requires flips

Other targets

make clean: Clean the output directory
make rebuild: Clean + make
make dump-gfx: Dump original game graphics and visual metadata for game resources defined in config/datavis.yaml to directory dump.