need help with debugging GBA game

[Reaper man]

hey which emu has the best debugging features? I'm thionking about finding where FF: dawn of souls keeps it's text info...

any help would be greatly appreciated.. .thank you

-Brad

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[hcs]

Hands down no$gba, but you'll have to pay to get the real debugger version.

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[Reaper man]

> Hands down no$gba, but you'll have to pay to get the real
> debugger version.

have no money... free debugger?

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[CEpeep]

> > Hands down no$gba, but you'll have to pay to get the real
> > debugger version.
>
> have no money... free debugger?
>

MappyVM works well, but it's slow.

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[Reaper man]

> MappyVM works well, but it's slow.

well, I don't intend to play the game (let alone any game... this computer sucks ass... hell, it has trouble with mode 7 on zsnes) but I'll look at it

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[Reaper man]

> > MappyVM works well, but it's slow.
>
> well, I don't intend to play the game (let alone any game...
> this computer sucks ass... hell, it has trouble with mode 7
> on zsnes) but I'll look at it

can't get it to work with Dawn of Souls for some reason

any alternatives?

all I really need is something that could add a breakpoint to whenever the code reads something off the rom (like text data) so I can find it in the rom and figure out how it's stored (I'm guessing (well hoping) that it's DTE)

btw.. what assembly "command" would I be looking for?

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[Gavin_86]

> btw.. what assembly "command" would I be looking for?

i actually have had almost no dealings with GBA and don't know the instruction set off the top of my head (so sorry as to not be of help in that respect), but have you had any experience at all with assembler before, or at least have a basic understanding of the concepts..? <img src=smilies/erm.gif>

oh, and technically, with the proper descretion and a knowledge of which area of the game you need to be working with (as in a defined range and location) you can find the same material with a hex editor. Obviously it's a bit more circumspect and archaic approach, i just wanted to point out that it's possible without a specially created tool.

If i'm recalling correctly a hacker from DESnet has been conducting some tomfoolery with the DoS rom

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[Reaper man]

> but have you had any experience at all with assembler before,

not really, but I'm willing to learn

> or at least have a
> basic understanding of the concepts..?

a little bit

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