Konami System 573 security cartridge tool

Building

The following dependencies are required in order to build the project:

• CMake 3.25 or later;
• Python 3.10 or later;
• Ninja;
• a recent version of the GCC toolchain that targets the mipsel-none-elf architecture;
• optionally, xorriso and chdman (in order to build the CD-ROM image).

The toolchain can be installed on Windows, Linux or macOS by following the instructions here and should be added to PATH. The other dependencies can be installed through a package manager.

The Python script used to convert images at build time requires additional dependencies which can be installed by running:

py -m pip install -r tools/requirements.txt   (Windows)
sudo pip install -r tools/requirements.txt    (Linux/macOS)

Once all prerequisites are installed, the tool can be built in debug mode (with command-line argument parsing disabled and serial port logging enabled by default) by running:

cmake --preset debug
cmake --build ./build

Replace debug with release to build in release mode or min-size-release to optimize the executable for size. If xorriso is installed and listed in the PATH environment variable, a bootable CD-ROM image will be generated alongside the executable. A copy of the image in CHD format will additionally be generated if MAME's chdman tool is also present.