Posted: 2/12/2012 8:52 PM
Post subject: How do I use lua memory.register()
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natt
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Because I apparently can't figure it out. I run this script, and player HP immediately changes to 68... but it doesn't stay there. I'm pretty sure I have the right memory address; and I see the values at that address changing in memory watch, but my callback never gets called. 
Language: lua
-- this sucessfully changes player HP once
memory.writeshort (0x00097ba0, 68)

-- this does not sucessfully freeze player HP
memory.register (0x00097ba0, function ()
  memory.writeshort (0x00097ba0, 68)
end)
Posted: 2/13/2012 3:05 AM
(Edited: 2/13/2012 3:07 AM)
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FractalFusion
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Works for me in pcsx-rr v0.1.3a. Which version are you using? Edit: Note that some addresses act as mirrors of others, and that changing them may have no effect on gameplay.
Posted: 2/13/2012 3:07 AM
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exileut
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FractalFusion wrote:
Works for me in pcsx-rr v0.1.3a. Which version are you using?
PSXjin 2.0.2
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Posted: 2/13/2012 4:07 AM
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natt
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FractalFusion wrote:
Edit: Note that some addresses act as mirrors of others, and that changing them may have no effect on gameplay.
It should stay the same in memory watch though, right? Whether or not that has any effect on gameplay?
Posted: 2/22/2012 3:16 AM
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Lil_Gecko
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I have never used memory.register and I know this doesn't answer your question but why not simply use while true do memory.writeshort (0x00097ba0, 68); emu.frameadvance(); end; ?
Posted: 2/22/2012 7:54 AM
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natt
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Lil_Gecko wrote:
I have never used memory.register and I know this doesn't answer your question but why not simply use while true do memory.writeshort (0x00097ba0, 68); emu.frameadvance(); end; ?
That sets the value once per frame to what I want. If that value gets changed and then read out at a different point during the frame, then it can still be wrong. What you posted is enough for many purposes though.
Posted: 4/18/2012 7:21 PM
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natt
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Solved (thanks to Ilari) Because psxjin is junkus, your lua script ceases to exist once the interpreter hits the end of the file. This is in contrast to emulators like VBA, where the script stays running until you stop it, and so can still do stuff if it has hooks registered. This fully freezes the value in question: 
Language: lua

memory.writeshort (0x00097ba0, 68)
print ("initial set")

memory.registerwrite (0x00097ba0, function ()
  print ("hook hit")
  memory.writeshort (0x00097ba0, 68)
end)
print ("hook installed")

while true do
  emu.frameadvance()
end
Posted: 4/18/2012 11:44 PM
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BadPotato
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FractalFusion wrote:
Works for me in pcsx-rr v0.1.3a. Which version are you using? Edit: Note that some addresses act as mirrors of others, and that changing them may have no effect on gameplay.
I'll just like to point out that there used to be a pcsx-rr v0.1.3c version(I think gotcha provided this build on google code), it used to have a lua console, just like psxjin... why the build isn't avalaible now?