Topic by gocha

Posted: 2/27/2007 10:20 PM
(Edited: 9/23/2009 11:56 AM)

Post subject: VBA Watch (no longer supported!)

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gocha

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IMPORTANT NOTE: This tool is no longer supported. The latest VBA-rr has nice built-in watch, use it instead. Download: conf -> wch converter - a lua script which might help you, an old user of my crappy watch. ?9yapuddmnyp

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Posted: 2/27/2007 10:34 PM
(Edited: 2/27/2007 11:17 PM)

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BoltR

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Yay! It works perfectly! Thank you very much! This is exactly what I wanted. Edit: Now with proper data types.

Posted: 2/27/2007 11:14 PM

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moozooh

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Gocha, your snes9x memory watcher was the best thing that happened to SNES TASing in the last year or so — and now it's on GBA as well! Man, great thanks to you!

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Posted: 3/30/2007 2:27 PM

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Yrr

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I have a small problem with this tool. Is it possible that it doesn't read the address properly? I need the WRAM address 02000008 and it shows a different value.

Posted: 3/30/2007 10:10 PM

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gocha

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if (watch_memtype.watch_id == WATCH_MEMTYPE_WRAM) { targetMem = VRAM }

Stupid, updated the file above.

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Posted: 3/31/2007 12:50 AM

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samurai_goroh

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This seems really useful, thanks gocha :D

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Posted: 3/31/2007 8:00 AM

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Yrr

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Thx, it works now!

Posted: 3/31/2007 6:10 PM

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oh... how could I overlook this thing????

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Drama, too long, didn't read, lol.

Posted: 4/10/2007 8:49 AM
(Edited: 4/15/2007 12:56 PM)

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gocha

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Added new watch (vbxwatch.exe) for gameboy variants (lazily). I hope it works fine. Thanks to Adelikat for his request.

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Posted: 4/12/2007 6:51 PM
(Edited: 4/12/2007 7:24 PM)

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ventuz

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Sweet, I'll give it a try. Edit: So far it's working perfectly fine, it's giving me correct value - goodbye to built in Memory Viewer.

Posted: 4/12/2007 7:02 PM

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P.JBoy

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I like this but, it really lags vba (especially noticeable is fast-forward) anything to do about that?

Posted: 4/12/2007 7:11 PM

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moozooh

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P.JBoy wrote:

I like this but, it really lags vba (especially noticeable is fast-forward) anything to do about that?

Set it to idle priority.

Warp wrote:

Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.

Posted: 4/12/2007 7:17 PM

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P.JBoy

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I never changed the priority

Posted: 4/12/2007 7:19 PM

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moozooh

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P.JBoy wrote:

I never changed the priority

I guess that's why you need to change it. :)

Warp wrote:

Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.

Posted: 4/12/2007 7:26 PM

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P.JBoy

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I mean, it's always been idle

Posted: 4/12/2007 7:45 PM

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ventuz

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Is it possible to put in your own arithmetic to display value you want to see? For example if game shows that you have 10 healths, then for some odd reason value shows 20 in memory watcher, adding your own arithmetic like value / 2 = real value will be seen in game. Or another example, character "live" shows 2 in game but shows 3 in memory watcher, change to value - 1 = real value.

Posted: 4/13/2007 1:37 AM

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I think there's a problem, I could not get this certain address showing any digit. *edit - wait.. I used BGB emu, it's showing DE80 for game frames instead and it worked on memory watcher, something wrong with VBA's cheat searcher.

Posted: 4/13/2007 3:28 PM

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Also, you should mention that it's case sensitive, as I wrote 1U instead of 1u, then it won't show the address, it took me a while to figure it... :P

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Posted: 4/15/2007 12:52 PM

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gocha

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File updated,

P.JBoy wrote:

I like this but, it really lags vba (especially noticeable is fast-forward) anything to do about that?

New exe will be paused when you are pressing Tab or the watch window is minimized.

ventuz wrote:

Is it possible to put in your own arithmetic to display value you want to see?

That would be good, but I am too lazy to implement that. Please do not expect implementing the feature :P

samurai goroh wrote:

Also, you should mention that it's case sensitive, as I wrote 1U instead of 1u, then it won't show the address, it took me a while to figure it... :P

Fixed.

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Posted: 4/29/2007 2:44 AM

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gocha, is there anyway to display bigendian values using your memory watch. I have an oddball game it seems.

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Posted: 4/29/2007 9:31 PM

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nitsuja

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ventuz wrote:

I think there's a problem, I could not get this certain address showing any digit. *edit - wait.. I used BGB emu, it's showing DE80 for game frames instead and it worked on memory watcher, something wrong with VBA's cheat searcher.

Those are two different addresses you're looking at. You're watching 00:CE80 in the left window, and 01:CE80 in the right window.

Posted: 5/2/2007 12:29 PM

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gocha

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OmnipotentEntity wrote:

gocha, is there anyway to display bigendian values using your memory watch. I have an oddball game it seems.

Finally I added the feature to display big-endian values. example:

ABCD,2x*,big-endian

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Posted: 5/30/2007 11:10 PM

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gocha

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Added the target setting for rerecording v20.0. Check it on vbawatch rev.2.

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Posted: 8/5/2007 12:53 PM

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Randil

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I'm having some issues watching RAM addresses with this tool when playing the game "Tom and Jerry". I believe it has something to do with the "game title" in the "Rom information" - the game title is "TOM AND JERRY", and I think that the reason why I can't watch addresses for this game is because there is 2 blanks in the name. I have no trouble watching addresses for any other games, though this is the only game I have with two blanks in the game title. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? This is what my code for that game looks like, in the file vbxconf0.txt:

;================================
; >> Tom and Jerry
;================================
[TOM AND JERRY]

FF9C,1u,X position

When loading "Tom and Jerry", the memory watcher is totally black, except for the "[Process 0] *" message at the top.

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Posted: 8/5/2007 1:06 PM
(Edited: 8/5/2007 2:53 PM)

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