How to start

[sven]

As someone with very little coding experience, is they're a good way to start directly in n64 coding? any good n64 homebrew scenes around maybe?

[ChillyWilly]

Some of that is getting kind of old now, but there's still some floating around.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/n64dev/develop

http://n64.icequake.net/

http://n64dev.50megs.com/

http://www.dextrose-forum.com/index.php?s=3

That should get you started. 

[sven]

thanks ChillyWilly

[ChillyWilly]

Okay, here's my current toolchain for linux (32 bit, but should work with 64 bit as well):
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?doyzmgyindx

That's gcc 4.1.2 for mips64 organized in the same manner I organize all my cross-platform toolchains. So I'll be using makefiles that are very similar to my MD/32X makefiles for this. The one thing not in the above is the LD file. I still need to do a little more work, but I should have the LD file, and an example of using the toolchain before the weekend is over.

[Conle]

Woah!!! That's really cool. I looked to the other n64dev project earlier and it was a bit frustrating   .

Your devpack is very clean and everything is in proper place. I will try it tomorrow on my x64 linux machine.  

[ChillyWilly]

Woah!!! That's really cool. I looked to the other n64dev project earlier and it was a bit frustrating   .

Your devpack is very clean and everything is in proper place. I will try it tomorrow on my x64 linux machine.  

That's why I put together my own toolchains. I find the "standard" way of handling gcc to be a little silly. I can make it much more organized, and smaller to boot. It certainly makes the include paths shorter.
 

[Infrid]

maybe this help you

http://infrid.com/rcp64/documents.php

[Conle]

Hey Infrid , thanks for keeping these great documents alive  .
I've been studying them the last few days and seems like it wont take too long to write a patching module for the menu!

 

[Infrid]

there are more docs here, take a look!

http://n64dev.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/n64dev/trunk/n64dev/

[ChillyWilly]

there are more docs here, take a look!

http://n64dev.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/n64dev/trunk/n64dev/

Yes, I recommend checking out the whole devkit. Lots of good info in it. That was one of my first stops after putting together my toolchain.
 

[Conle]

there are more docs here, take a look!

http://n64dev.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/n64dev/trunk/n64dev/

Yeah i've been reading the docs there too(ChillyWilly posted it already).