[RHDNBot]

Update By: Killa B

byuu has just released a new SNES debugger based on his bsnes emulator.

It's pretty awesome, and a thousand times better than Geiger's Snes9x Debugger. It has a lot of fancy things, including a VRAM viewer! If you're not excited, there's something severely wrong with you.

Questions, comments, complaints, and feature requests may be posted at byuu's message board.

You can download it from the bsnes site or right here at RHDN.

Relevant Link: (http://byuu.org/)

[creaothceann]

Relevant Link: (http://byuu.org/)

Yup, see latest news.

[...] including a VRAM viewer! If you're not excited, there's something severely wrong with you.

It looks like it doesn't use the palette though, so you get a black & white image.

[Ryusui]

It looks like it doesn't use the palette though, so you get a black & white image.

B&W is better than none at all. And if you need the palette, there's always VSNES. :3

Note to self: get off lazy ass and get back to work on BoF1.

[Hamlet]

Thanks byuu!!!
Looks and sounds great!

PS @Ryusui: You should really listen to yourself!

[Tater Bear]

[...] including a VRAM viewer! If you're not excited, there's something severely wrong with you.

It looks like it doesn't use the palette though, so you get a black & white image.

It is open source now. I am sure you can add this functionality  .

[creaothceann]

[...] including a VRAM viewer! If you're not excited, there's something severely wrong with you.

It looks like it doesn't use the palette though, so you get a black & white image.

It is open source now. I am sure you can add this functionality  .

But it's written in C++ and Qt. >_>

[Malias]

Wow, bsnes certainly grew in size.   Hopefully, it's from all those awesome debug features.

[creaothceann]

Well, it's no longer compressed with UPX, but that's not the only reason.

[tomaitheous]

 Am I the only one that's tried to use it!? I can't step through any cpu code. I can break, but no stepping. Sometimes it'll show a line or two in the trace window, but I can't scroll rom code. The memory viewer also isn't scrollable - although the bar is there for it. I have to manually enter in an address and limited to 256 bytes - no scrollable. Tile view is nice, but no status window with all the sPPU's regs. At its current build, I can't really use it On a side note, man... this emu actually runs faster than zsnes on my laptop ;>_> Appears to run full speed on this piece of crap sempron 3000+ laptop. I'm amazed

[creaothceann]

Nope, haven't tried the code debugger.

Have you contacted byuu about this?

[smkd]

Very cool release.

code stepping works fine, you just have to go in to configuration->advanced and set it to not pause emulation when window isn't focused.  Stepping worked fine after that.

[MathOnNapkins]

I'll have to give it a try some time, I sure hope it's better than the v0.13 debugger.

[Killa B]

I'll have to give it a try some time, I sure hope it's better than the v0.13 debugger.

It is.

[creaothceann]

Am I the only one that's tried to use it!? I can't step through any cpu code. I can break, but no stepping. Sometimes it'll show a line or two in the trace window, but I can't scroll rom code. The memory viewer also isn't scrollable - although the bar is there for it. I have to manually enter in an address and limited to 256 bytes - no scrollable. Tile view is nice, but no status window with all the sPPU's regs. At its current build, I can't really use it On a side note, man... this emu actually runs faster than zsnes on my laptop ;>_> Appears to run full speed on this piece of crap sempron 3000+ laptop. I'm amazed

code stepping works fine, you just have to go in to configuration->advanced and set it to not pause emulation when window isn't focused.  Stepping worked fine after that.

I know about the scrollbar. Qt doesn't let you control it on your own without scrolling the hex output out of view. Obviously I can't print all 16MB of text into the window at one time. I'm writing my own replacement scrollbar now but didn't want to delay the release for it. The arrow keys can navigate, as can the page keys and goto box.

As for the other issue, I'll have to default to "ignore input", I guess. Bypassing "pause input" with the debugger open would be non-intuitive.

This is the first release, so there's bound to be lots of things that need to be polished; but I'll make sure they get done so that the SNES scene finally has a decent debugger =)

[tomaitheous]

Very cool release.

code stepping works fine, you just have to go in to configuration->advanced and set it to not pause emulation when window isn't focused.  Stepping worked fine after that.

 That did the trick. I had looked at the advanced section, but I must has skimmed over it. Anyway, thank ye

[Lenophis]

And before anybody gets their feet wet, he released 0.052.

[Kernigh]

If you're not excited, there's something severely wrong with you.

I am not yet excited. I started ROM hacking for SNES without a debugger, because, to my knowledge, there is no SNES debugger that is compatible with my computer. I find more ease to hack without a debugger, than to port or fix an existing SNES debugger. So the SNES debuggers remain beyond my reach and fail to excite me.

My copy of BSNES v0.052 crashes whenever I load a cartridge. Now that BSNES allegedly has a debugger, I might try to report or fix the crash, so that I may use the debugger.

[Tauwasser]

[...] to my knowledge, there is no SNES debugger that is compatible with my computer.

And what computer might that be? Windows, Linux and Mac OS are supported as far as I see from the bsnes page. Or are you talking about hardware compatibility?

cYa,

Tauwasser

[DarknessSavior]

And before anybody gets their feet wet, he released 0.052.

I love byuu's work, I really do. But seriously, get an inside beta-testing team already! I'm tired of downloading five new releases of bsnes in two months! >_>;

~DS

[Lilinda]

He does have one, dummy.