A week ago we discovered BizHawk (multi-platform emulator). I hinted on using its Lua API for real #SGDK gameDev debugging. And here we are. This silly vid is just to show you amazing debugging possibilities. RTFM🤓.

On refactoring a struct I freed 256 bytes in RAM. Bam! SGDK.I remember writing my 1st virus for SpriteOS on 6502 CPU which was about 128+ bytes that the file size could stay unchanged in 50% cases. The file sizes were displayed in disk blocks, I believe.

What do you want to know?.

Re-added back some check for memory leakage in SGDK. All's good.😅.With leaking memory your game might crash after some running time.

Я пока не дозрел до отпусков 5-7 дней. Короче, все билеты проверены, места выбраны, трансфер заказан. Мой мозг уже готов отдыхать. Но еще не скоро.

Fixed another crash due to reading data from NULL pointer. It just happens ).

Started watching The Bad Guys 2. Dropped on the 1st minute 😒.

Finished watching The Institute s01. Well. It's just ok. 6 of 10. The last episode was the worst. They're making the next part (there's no book to adapt tho). 😔.

+27C My typical Sunday 😎

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13K of my steps. Harvested some lake sand for my cacti. Deadly tired. 🐸.Thinking about an electric scooter ride trough my town area. Prepared 2 presents for the miner day. Typical Saturday 😎

due to my new Miyoo Flip I started testing modern homebrew games for old consoles. And you know what, I just cannot find anything good from PD yet. From my old collection I tested Blazed Rangers. And it's good!.

I've made a working profiler but.do not know how to display it properly.

Lua API magic in:. 1) in #BizHawk you may make a fully playable game over an empty ROM. With all sprites, icons and gfx ))), supporting any gamepads. 2) in #Aseprite you may make a fully playable game with its #Lua API. (or even a level editor / sprite+meta-data editor).🧐#SGDK

I'll keep sharing all my finds in the debugging process. I've added conditional debug indication for all game aspects. So I can enable/disable memory reading and drawing. To speed up the process, Lua API has "binary string reading" and more. You may read whole chunks of RAM/ROM.

Btw, here is a nice set of #BizHawk scripts with colorful menu on screen etc. In my case, the help is enough. Be careful for deprecated funcs.

With my debug texts on the screen I get huge slowdowns of the emulator. So. My current #BizHawk debugging shiet for Zabu #SGDK. I'm moving some info from the screen to the forms. I see real data there and can browse trough the data. Ofc it's WIP,but it works. Looks as some Maker

Just watched Kirby Air RideRS presentation. It was like another game design lesson from Mr. Sakurai. Hats off. ❤️‍🔥.

Кулстори. Сегодня яблочный спас. Лучшее в мире совковое образование породило веруюущих инженеров. А они нас угощают в их праздник. Вопрос из зала:.- А яблочный спас это про то яблоко, которе скушала Ева?.- Завали хлебало, если сказать вежливо. PS Сегодня у меня еще именины.

It was enough for a fast manual test and writing initial debug visualization. But I forgot there are TONS of BizHawk scripts everywhere. So LLM learnt shiet from scripts for other consoles. They are way more advanced. It's a cool thing to have SAME Lua API for all emul cores.

Reading trough BizHawk's API. Going to implement a thing because of drastic slowdown of the ROM + debug execution. And BAM! I'm crying. A LLM created a script for BizHawk from the 3rd butt kick. Damn. Saved like a day. The provided samples for Genesis are limited (but fine).

I wish I used Python instead of Lua due to tons of regexp in these scripts. Lua's regexp is an alien croak.