Super NES Programming Tips

Modano · Post by **Modano** » Sun May 15, 2005 10:13 pm

Hello, everybody, pleased to be there in this forum I've been watching since some days

I've been gathering around the net tons and tons of doc about the Super NES 65c816 assembly programming, tutorials, technical references, instructions references, examples, demos...etc...

Very very interesting, as I'm motivated in taking some long time learning the 65816 assembly language, out of curiosity and all.

Although MarcTheMer assembly tutorial seems pretty good, it is incomplete :s
( http://snescentral.edgeemu.com/Developm ... ntents.htm )
Has anybody this full tutorial, or an equivalent ?

Anyway, the most important follows.
I'm looking for a SNES debugger (to follow traces, internal registers, step by step...)...I saw a customized Snes9X version...for Windows.
Unfortunately (this must be the first kind of program I don't see for Linux), i'm on Linux :op
So, is there a customized Zsnes version, or another tool, to see the 65c816 in action ?

Anyway, again, thanks everybody !

Post by **Nach** » Sun May 15, 2005 10:41 pm

You can run ZSNES DOS in DOSBox, or Snes9x tracer version or Super Sleuth in WINE.

byuu · Post by **byuu** » Mon May 16, 2005 2:03 am

You can run ZSNES DOS in DOSBox

Wow, I should try that sometime.

Post by **Nach** » Mon May 16, 2005 2:38 am

byuusan wrote:
You can run ZSNES DOS in DOSBox
Wow, I should try that sometime.

I find it the easiest way to test changed with the DOS port when I'm in Linux.
Unfornetly I can't test the Windows port in Linux or the Linux port in Windows.

Hence on multiple occasions I had to switch from one machine to another to make sure some changes stayed compatible between all OSs.

I really should get VMWare setup at some point at home, or perhaps I should just make use of my multiple machines

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Mon May 16, 2005 5:00 am

Have you ever tried with with QEMU? It would probably be faster than DosBox, and you could run Windows on it, as well.

Post by **Nach** » Mon May 16, 2005 10:54 am

Never heard of QEMU.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Mon May 16, 2005 6:39 pm

http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

Modano · Post by **Modano** » Tue May 17, 2005 4:40 pm

OK thanks a lot

, so DOSEMU runs pretty fine for debugging purposes (not for emulation , PIV 1.7GHz ~ 386/25)

I don't like Wine very much (fonts problems, for instance).
QEMU seems interesting, but it needs an image of the hard disk, so for DOS, it can be a freedos, but for Win, I suppose you need to install a win ? (does it act like VMWare ? )

Anyway, thanks again

And if you have any extra doc, clues, you're welcome

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Tue May 17, 2005 6:23 pm

QEMU is much like VMWare, just not as polished. It should be faster than DosBox, because it doesn't try to implement all the quirks of ancient PCs like DosBox does.

Modano · Post by **Modano** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:32 am

Hello all, I finally use VMWare with a SuperSleuth and another program.
I was wondering if a 65816 debugger exist ? A pure debugger, like nasm (iirc), a command line tool, when you enter your instructions, and see for instance the registers, etc ?
A small step in 65816 assembly, without going directly on SuperNes tools.
I was thinking on Apple 2 GS tools, but I just can't find one.
I'm using Linux or Windows 2k on vmware.

Thanks a lot

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:48 pm

Super Sleuth

The site seems to be down. Btw. is 1.03 the most recent version?

Clements · Post by **Clements** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:35 pm

Site is now here:

http://users.tpg.com.au/advlink/spx/

The latest version available is 1.04 Preview Build 4.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 2:30 pm

Thanks.

Post by **Nach** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 2:48 pm

Clements wrote:Site is now here:

http://users.tpg.com.au/advlink/spx/

The latest version available is 1.04 Preview Build 4.

Seems the site's frameset was placed in the head, and thus most web browsers don't render it.

Jonas Quinn · Post by **Jonas Quinn** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 4:57 pm

Nach wrote:
Clements wrote:Site is now here:

http://users.tpg.com.au/advlink/spx/

The latest version available is 1.04 Preview Build 4.
Seems the site's frameset was placed in the head, and thus most web browsers don't render it.

It is not rendered in Firefox because of Adblock.
I don't know if that causes Adblock to block it. I think that this should be fixed to check if it works afterwards.

It is more likely blocked because of the advlink in the url.