As far as I could tell as there were no real guidelines, and I expect
there to be loads of games going through nintendo submission that
might fail (unless you're a biiiiiiiiiiiiig japanese games developer).

After testing all the released games multiplayer facilities (and
noting that I could actually get Wai Wai to irrecoverably crash) I
programmed a multiSIO set of handler routines, that basically
achieved exactly the same front end operation as FZero. Everything
seems to recover from all kinds of *multiplay* situations now.

A nice generic front end system is great too - for all those
potential game flow changes :)

stevej

--- In gbadev@y..., "Sean Dunlevy" <sean@f...> wrote:
> Hi Jack,
> I did check it out. The flowcharts are helpful, but I
cannot
> help
> but worry than N will throw a load of guidelines onto us at some
point.
> It's a pain when your designing your front-end and so on.
>
> Thanks for the reply,
> Sean ;-)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jack Ukleja" <jack.ukleja@n...>
> To: <gbadev@y...>
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 12:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [gbadev] SIO Standards
>
>
> > Sean,
> >
> > Have you checked all the .pdfs available on Warioworld? There is
one about
> > BackupLibrary which includes details of various levels of support
> required.
> > There is also a submission requirements pdfs, and a Pprogramming
Cautions
> > pdf which contains other requirements and recommendations.
> >
> > Jack
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sean Dunlevy" <sean@f...>
> > To: <gbadev@y...>
> > Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 11:14 AM
> > Subject: [gbadev] SIO Standards
> >
> >
> > Anyone know if Nintendo have released guidelines
> > for SIO. I notice different games handle it quite
> > differently. Wyi Wyi Racing has no special screens
> > for establishing communications & if you unplug
> > the cable during the game, both machines simply
> > pause until it's reconnected (you cannot even end
> > the game). F-Zero on the other hand has a specific
> > screen to establish communications and if you
> > disconnect the cable it prints up a message and
> > automatically exits the game.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Sean ;-)
> >
> > BTW Standards for 'soft reset'? Backup RAM messages/
> > warnings? I keep feeling that only when we submit
> > we will find out :-(
> >
> >
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