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This is a Sega 8-bit development related tools repositery. Be sure to report missing tools or submit new one. If you have a question regarding how to use them, please ask it on the forum and not directly to me, so you can reach a bigger audience. Individuals developpers may have created tools that are not mentionned there. Feel free to ask if you're in need of anything.
-Omar Cornut (Bock)
Assemblers
WLA-DX
by Ville Helin
http://www.hut.fi/~vhelin/wla.html
Yet Another GB-Z80/Z80/6502/6510/65816 Macro Assembler Package. Includes support for SMS/GG features.
This is our assembler of choice !
Compile your code with "wla -rs [asmfile]
Precompiled binaries, provided by Maxim : http://www.smspower.org/dev/tools/wladx/
Table Assembler (3.01) (tasm301.zip, 142 kb)
by Thomas N. Anderson
Multi processor assembler that support Zilog 80.
Compile your code with "-80 -x -b -f00"
Game Gear Assembler, Linker and sample code (ggasmlnk.zip, 133 kb)
by Charles Doty
Z80 compiler with a few things dedicated to Game Gear development.

Disassemblers
SMS Examine (1.2a) (smsexamine1_2a.zip)
(Version 1.0) (smsexamine1_0.zip)
by Martin Konrad
Excellent Z80 disassembler oriented toward Sega 8-bit systems. Attempt to separate code from data, add comments, functions markers. Output is recompilable by WLA-DX.
DASMZ80 (3.0) (dasmz80.zip, 57 kb)
by Marat Faizullin
Z80 disassembler (DOS binaries). Get portable sources and more here.
Z80DASM (z80dasm.zip, 27 kb)
by Marcel De Kogel
Yet another Z80 disassembler (DOS binaries). Get portable sources and more here.
dZ80 (Windows: dz80w131.exe, 694 kb - DOS: dz80d131.zip, 124 kb - Sources: dz80s131.zip, 26 kb)
by Mark Incley
Another Z80 disassembler.

Graphics
BMP to SMS/GG tile converter (0.35) (bmp2tile035.zip, 290 kb)
(Version 0.20) (bmp2tile02.zip, 253 kb)
by Maxim
http://www.smspower.org/maxim/utilities/bmp2tile.html
Converts a BMP file to tiles, tilemap, and palette.
Fonts package (fonts.zip, 8 kb)
courtesy Mike Gordon
Set of four different text fonts for use in Sega 8-bit development.
Game Gear Tools (ggtools.zip)
by Charles Doty
WGT and PCX converter to Game Gear tile format.
Sega 8-bit compression scheme A decoder/encoder (tiledeca01.zip)
by Maxim
http://www.smspower.org/maxim/smschecker/utilities.htm#tiledec
Decompress the compressed tiles in many SMS and GG roms.

Miscellaneous
SMS Check (0.21) (smscheck021.zip, 42 kb)
by Omar Cornut
Command-line utility, dump SMS/GG header, checksum and various information.
SMS Page (0.20) (smspage020.zip, 36 kb)
by Omar Cornut
Command-line utility, dump information about pages of a given ROM and report duplicate/similar pages.
SMS ROM Utilities (Maxim's World of Stuff)
by Maxim
Various utilities for managing SMS ROMS including checksummers and header readers.

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