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Retro Game Engine is a program made with Unity.

You can run it as is, and it will show an intro screen:

Loader Screen

By selecting Arcade the virtual machine will start and will run a cartridge called Game.cartridge in the folder Cartridges that is in the program folder.

By selecting Arcade+ the virtual machine will start and a menu with all the cartridges available in the folder Cartridges wil be shown. You can select one of them and it will be loaded and run.

By selecting Development a tool to edit and create some items will appear. (Right now it is not fully functional, but it can be used to draw and edit sprites.) Check Development tools for a full description.

After the cartridge is loaded it will be run immediately. (At the moment there is no way to stop the RGE, you have to exit the application)

You can specify a command line argument to a shortcut of the application:

  • -play ⇒ Starts the arcade directly loading the game.cartridge file.
  • -sel ⇒ Starts the Arcade+ and let you select the cartridge to play.
  • -dev ⇒ Starts directly the development tools

If no command line arguments are specified, the standard loaded screen will be shown.

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