Build Your Own Console!#
Warning
Kate is still in development, and this book is a work in progress. Many of the necessary features for building a proper physical console are not yet provided.
Kate is a DIY video game console primarily designed for small indie and story-rich games (particularly Visual Novels/Interactive Fiction, Adventures, and RPGs). There’s no official store where you can buy a ready-to-use physical Kate console, or games for Kate, however you can build your own console and games with readily available components and some electronics and software tinkering.
This book will cover all the necessary steps needed to build your own console, from the hardware, to the physical casing, to the operating system and applications/game cartridges. For each of these steps you also have the choice of just picking off-the-shelf components without customising them.