I might have to have a look at this as it will likely be nicer than fiddling around with deadbeef padding*, far less aggro than doing it by hand and less clunky than just overwriting wifi error codes (nice long ASCII messages, sometimes in several languages all end to end and in the binary from boot).
*though it looks like the main issue I have with that of games sometimes flood filling/"initialising" memory might still trouble it.
Possible future addon - a decode of the overlay table and a quick breakdown of the ranges. I would not hardcode it out as some overlays are just that rare and the extension might only been needed for a little while.
*though it looks like the main issue I have with that of games sometimes flood filling/"initialising" memory might still trouble it.
Possible future addon - a decode of the overlay table and a quick breakdown of the ranges. I would not hardcode it out as some overlays are just that rare and the extension might only been needed for a little while.
Yeah the reset thing would help but some of them seem to go in for non null fills.
The overlay table lists the location in memory the overlays are destined for and their size (compressed or otherwise) is equally easy to find. From here you could get the lowest overlay location in memory and also the highest/final location (it can go many ways* so you will have to add sizes to location and figure out the highest number to get the whole picture). Basically it will hopefully stop something the game would never use as it is earmarked for an overlay but being an overlay area it might only be used for a rarely called function and thus your heuristics might flag as a free area.
*there can also be gaps but this is potentially less pressing -- the compilers are fairly smart about this.
The overlay table lists the location in memory the overlays are destined for and their size (compressed or otherwise) is equally easy to find. From here you could get the lowest overlay location in memory and also the highest/final location (it can go many ways* so you will have to add sizes to location and figure out the highest number to get the whole picture). Basically it will hopefully stop something the game would never use as it is earmarked for an overlay but being an overlay area it might only be used for a rarely called function and thus your heuristics might flag as a free area.
*there can also be gaps but this is potentially less pressing -- the compilers are fairly smart about this.
Thanks.I think if I had made this sooner then it might've actually been useful on one of the problems that we ran into on Fire Emblem. Oh well.
That's actually exactly what I was thinking... that and that if I had time, I'd use it to see if I couldn't try to fix the issue once again, though IIRC the issue was a bit complicated and it might not be worth the trouble at this point, now that most everyone who wanted to play the game has, haha.
Interesting tool, Nagato. Nice work! Have you asked someone on the DeSmuMeE Dev-team to add it in as a "permanent" feature? I think that would be nice. Creating a branch in the SVN repo and commiting it would do the trick to begin with, assuming they accept it. You can always ask on IRC.
I may actually have use for this in a near future, so thanks again for making the tool!
I may actually have use for this in a near future, so thanks again for making the tool!
The Nameless Game is the name of a DS game involving hidden secretive stuff, and... stuff.
I haven't played it, obviously...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanashi_no_Game
Seriously though, am I the only person who noticed what game is in that screenshot? Nagato was the lead hacker on the Nanashi no Game English translation patch, and that's a screenshot of the opening scene of that game's sequel, Nanashi no Game: Me (The Nameless Game: The EYE) with English text!
Check it:
In short: eye see what you did there
Check it:
In short: eye see what you did there
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