As you guys know it can be annoying to freeze if you access a bad memory range and you don't know how big the App MEM2 region is? Wrong! This can be prevented quite easily by tracking down the boundaries with the OSEffectriveToPhysical() function. I'll just leave this JGecko U Java code here for anyone who is enlightened by this binary search implementation 
For Mario Kart 8 for example the output of this code...
... is the following:
Indeed, these are the last readable address boundaries. It took 29 iterations to find the first one so it's not too slow (about 2 seconds).
This is how NWPlayer123 did it but it's not very efficient how it seems.
Note:
This will be a feature in Gecko U so just in case you're worried that this is too nerdy and hard for you to make use of, you're pretty much covered.
Code:
private static int getMemoryBoundary(int startingAddress, int lastAddress, boolean convergeDownwards) throws IOException
{
int middle = (lastAddress - startingAddress) / 2 + startingAddress;
int physicalAddress = CoreInit.getEffectiveToPhysical(middle);
while (true)
{
// Is it mapped?
if ((physicalAddress != 0 && convergeDownwards)
|| (physicalAddress == 0 && !convergeDownwards))
{
lastAddress = middle;
} else
{
startingAddress = middle;
}
int previousMiddle = middle;
middle = (lastAddress - startingAddress) / 2 + startingAddress;
// The middle does no longer update, algorithm terminates
if (previousMiddle == middle)
{
break;
}
physicalAddress = CoreInit.getEffectiveToPhysical(middle);
}
return middle;
}
Code:
Connector.getInstance().connect("192.168.178.35");
int boundary = getMemoryBoundary(0x10000000, 0x50000000, false);
System.out.println("Upper Bound: " + Integer.toHexString(boundary).toUpperCase());
boundary = getMemoryBoundary(0x01800000, 0x10000000, true);
System.out.println("Lower Bound: " + Integer.toHexString(boundary).toUpperCase());
Connector.getInstance().closeConnection();
Code:
Upper Bound: 4E11FFFF
Lower Bound: E17FFFFThis is how NWPlayer123 did it but it's not very efficient how it seems.
Note:
This will be a feature in Gecko U so just in case you're worried that this is too nerdy and hard for you to make use of, you're pretty much covered.
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