Cheats, Memory editor, Ascii editor, Hex editor, assembler, disassembler, memory hacks, memory dumping and restoring.

ADormant commented 8 years ago

You are working on the debugger right now so I wonder if such features are feasible such editors would be very helpful for rom hacking and translating.

http://ngemu.com/threads/playstation-emulator-cheater-setup-guide.101186/ http://pec.duttke.de/ http://www.aldostools.org/pecedit.html https://github.com/strobejb/HexEdit https://github.com/evanmiller/hecate http://www.zophar.net/utilities/hexutil.html http://homepage.ntlworld.com/simon.mallion/PSXMemTool/

shonumi commented 8 years ago

It's possible once the debugger is finished, though it'd be pretty low-priority.

shonumi commented 8 years ago

Marking it as an enhancement for now (it's basically going to be the RAM tab, but instead of just viewing data, it will let you view and edit data).

GregoryMcGregerson commented 8 years ago

I like the idea of having an editor. Some levels can be changed in certain games with some simple HEX edits. And having cheats will be helpful to get to certain areas quickly to check on tile replacement.

shonumi commented 8 years ago

Shouldn't be too hard to implement. I'm working on the memory viewer tonight. Hopefully Qt will make this quick. Fwiw, I'm no stranger to hex editors (a hex editor was my first solo FOSS project). I'll update you guys as progress is made ;)

ADormant commented 8 years ago

shonumi commented 8 years ago

Yes, memory dumping/loading is trivial.

Fwiw, you don't have to always post handfuls of links. I have a very solid idea on how this is going to work ;)

ADormant commented 8 years ago

Great we have ascii and hex values now thanks. I don't know if that's not too much to ask but would it be doable to add some additional values to the debugger like EBCDIC, Unicode, Shift-JIS , EUC-JP , binary, signed, decimal , float and double? Different roms/games require different approaches.

shonumi commented 8 years ago

Yes, that's all a bit too much :P

If someone wants to get that involved, it's best to dump the memory and edit it in a proper hex editor.

EDIT: Also, as you can see with the latest commit, the memory viewer is a bit rough in terms of proper text formating. Going to spend the weekend fixing it up in Qt.

ADormant commented 8 years ago

The most useful would be EBCDIC, Unicode, Shift-JIS and EUC-JP because Japanese games use these formats for text and they are hard to modify with just hex editors. Perhaps a converter from these formats to hex is possible but I guess it's hard.

shonumi commented 8 years ago

Something like http://www.wxhexeditor.org/ already handles those encodings fairly well though. Trying to implement a full-featured hex editor into GBE+ seems like feature creep to me. I'm going to keep it simple and straightforward. If the user has more advanced needs, they should turn to advanced programs dedicated for hex editing (wxHexEditor is really, really nice too). GBE+'s editor should be minimal, "quick and dirty", but gets most jobs done.

ADormant commented 8 years ago

https://github.com/bryanperris/Soft64-Bryan/commit/cb1dd2c13b83e1e3758bd74ee599bda2d2b66b3a https://github.com/bryanperris/Soft64-Bryan/commit/04cedaac2b2d7c819ff35560f0864ea1d73883dc https://github.com/bryanperris/Soft64-Bryan/commit/e084ad0a1757e39ee5041443e58f9b216e383a81 https://github.com/bryanperris/Soft64-Bryan/commit/8235acdea292c414d8d0224c6dcce5117902a1b9 https://github.com/bryanperris/Soft64-Bryan/commit/a7b75add944e46814d7a32a4d94e7ca8fc906e31 https://github.com/bryanperris/Soft64-Bryan/commit/cc91f438772bc16a465cfed323372bbf1306ba5f

ADormant commented 8 years ago

Does debuggers support memory breakpoints?

shonumi commented 8 years ago

Not yet. The CLI debugger does. The core needs a way to expose CPU registers to the GUI. It's coming in the next few days, so keep your eyes open. Can't add everything at once after all :P

shonumi / gbe-plus

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