#151843 - nczempin - Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:54 pm
Next in my list after the profiler:
A decent source-level debugger.
It seems that for serious NDS homebrew coding, no$gba-debug is the way to go (seems an incredible value at 15 $!).
Does it support source-level debugging? I haven't yet tried any of the other emus (just the free no$), do the veterans have any other recommendations?
#151844 - silent_code - Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:00 pm
sorry for being offtopic... i'm kind of in the mood right now:
guess what? no$ is from germany! (just goofing around) ;^p
that said, i have read that some (other) emulator (dsemume? ideas?) supports (srclvl?) debugging, but i haven't done any serious nds debugging myself.
#151858 - SiW - Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:18 am
The no$gba source-level debugger is only available with the full commercial ($1750) license.
#151876 - tempest - Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:03 am
I'm no veteran in any way, but emulator desmume with gdb stub, coupled with insight debugger, might be of your interest. Please read Debugging in emulators to get started.
#151883 - nczempin - Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:11 am
| SiW wrote: |
| The no$gba source-level debugger is only available with the full commercial ($1750) license. |
umm, okay, so what benefit does the $15 version offer? Sorry for asking all this in the forum when I could presumably find out in other ways...
#151888 - tempest - Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:34 am
| nczempin wrote: |
| umm, okay, so what benefit does the $15 version offer? Sorry for asking all this in the forum when I could presumably find out in other ways... |
It offers asm level stepping, full register and machine state inspection, and a really good debugger (with breakpoints on memory/registers read/write, etc...).
For $15 it's a pretty good deal, I've bought it myself and I'm really satisfied. You can learn more here, and read the compulsory comparison table between versions.
#151890 - nczempin - Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:03 pm
| tempest wrote: |
| nczempin wrote: | | umm, okay, so what benefit does the $15 version offer? Sorry for asking all this in the forum when I could presumably find out in other ways... |
It offers asm level stepping, full register and machine state inspection, and a really good debugger (with breakpoints on memory/registers read/write, etc...).
For $15 it's a pretty good deal, I've bought it myself and I'm really satisfied. You can learn more here, and read the compulsory comparison table between versions. |
Ah, I see.
I guess the two features I was looking for will set me back $750 each. Not an option right now, since I'm just doing homebrew for now. I will definitely get the $15 version though.
In the meantime, which (are there several?) of the open-source ds emus show the most promise and would benefit most from a motivated developer who would like to add the functionality himself?
#151895 - masscat - Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:50 pm
| nczempin wrote: |
| tempest wrote: | | nczempin wrote: | | umm, okay, so what benefit does the $15 version offer? Sorry for asking all this in the forum when I could presumably find out in other ways... |
It offers asm level stepping, full register and machine state inspection, and a really good debugger (with breakpoints on memory/registers read/write, etc...).
For $15 it's a pretty good deal, I've bought it myself and I'm really satisfied. You can learn more here, and read the compulsory comparison table between versions. |
Ah, I see.
I guess the two features I was looking for will set me back $750 each. Not an option right now, since I'm just doing homebrew for now. I will definitely get the $15 version though.
In the meantime, which (are there several?) of the open-source ds emus show the most promise and would benefit most from a motivated developer who would like to add the functionality himself? |
Desmume supports full source level debugging of both the ARM9 and the ARM7 via a GDB stub (I was the person who put it in there but I have not done any work on Desmume for a long time so I do not know what its current state - I use version 0.7.2 for my development) so it can talk to any debugger that support GDB's remote debugging. It supports most of GDB features (breakpoints, watchpoint and the like).
I think the Desmume is the only open source NDS emulator so that would be your choice if you fancy helping with its development.