A Tutorial series for Saturn Ring Library (SRL)

Author note

Important

As of August 2025, this tutorial series is a work in progress. New chapters will be added and corrected as my personal time allows. The Chapters as they are now may be changed as the tutorials are being written.

Sega Saturn Primer

• Hardware Description

Introduction to SRL

• Description Of Library, Features , Alternatives
• SDK setup
• Best Practices

01 - A simple hello world

• Anatomy of a SRL project
• Introduction to SRL::Debug

02 - Your First triangle point / line / quad (VDP1)

• 2D Screen Coordinates primer
  • Screen Coordinates
• SRL::Scene2D
  • A simple line
  • A simple quad

03 - Your First sprite (VDP1)

• File System Primer
• Sprite constraints
• Sprite Loading
• Sprite Drawing
  • The Simplest Way
• SRL::Math::Types::Angle Introduction
• Sprite Rotation
• Working with Degrees and Radians
• Scaling the sprites
• The ZoomPoint

04 - Input Handling (Digital Gamepad)

• SRL::Input::Digital class
• Is is Connected ?
• Is a Button being pressed ?
• Multiple buttons at the same time

05 - Interlude : Putting everything (so far) together

• Modularize code

06 - Your Second sprite (VDP1)

• Distorted sprites

07 - Sprite effects

08 - Sprite pallets

09 - 3D Model pipeline

• Description of the use of the tools for 3d mesh importing
• the NYA Format
• Limitations

10 - Input Handling - Revisited

• Peripheral management.
• Analogue Gamepad
• Light Pistol

11 - Backgrounds and tilemaps (VDP2)