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How to Make a PS2 Game Menu

One of the best ways to learn how to program video games is to learn on an older gaming system. "Retro" programing is a fun way to build new video games to play with and show off to your friends. The first steps of creating your own video game is to create a working development environment. A working development environment consists of a Unix emulator and a PS2 Toolchain. Once you have created a working development environment you can build a PS2 Game menu and start creating your very own video game.

Things You'll Need

Computer with Internet access

Instructions

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  Download CYGWIN, a Unix emulator, using the resource link below.
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  Save the file "Setup.exe" to your desktop so it is easy to find. Run the executable file and set the install directory to C://Cygwin. Follow the installation screens to set up the emulator to work with your computer.
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  Download a PS2 toolchain. The tool chain has the all the files needed to create working PS2 video games. It contains the libraries, compiler, header files and basic sample programs. Click on the PS2 Dev Toolchain link below to download the toolchain. Run the install program and save to "C:/cygwin/home/user", where "user" is your user name.
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  Open up a bash shell, "cygwin.bat" from the start menu. This will open up a command line that should read yourusername@yourcomputername. Type "cd ps2dev". This will open up your toolchain directory. Next, type "ls". This will list out all files in your toolchain. There are several demos and useable source code in this directory. Type "ps2makedir.sh". This will load a demo showing you source code for a usable PS2 game menu.

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