NESASM debug symbols in FCEUX?

[Punch]

So, at each compiling the NESASM 3 generates a file with the extension .fns, with the ROM addresses to the program labels. It is formatted like this:

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; main.asm
ResolveMetaAddresses             = $E174
Level_Draw_Loop                  = $E115
MetaTiles_Objects                = $807B
DecodeLevelObj                   = $E124
(...)

How can I use it in FCEUX instead of having to type the addresses manually at the debugger? It is tedious.

[tepples]

What you need to do is translate that to a .nes.0.nl file. Do you know any PC scripting languages like Perl or Python?

[Punch]

What you need to do is translate that to a .nes.0.nl file. Do you know any PC scripting languages like Perl or Python?

Nope. Only C. It seems easy enough, but I wouldn't refuse a script that is already done

Thanks for the heads up.

[zzo38]

It looks like it could be done easily enough in AWK or sed just as well (I could do, but do not want to do so at this time).

Of course, you could do it in C, too; you don't need to use AWK, sed, Perl, or Python, to do this.

[rainwarrior]

If it's helpful, I've attached a little python program I use to create FCEUX debug files for my ca65 programs. It should be easy to modify to work with NESASM label files.

Documentation if you need it: http://www.fceux.com/web/help/fceux.htm ... ormat.html


Edit: Python scripts were later disallowed on this forum. Uploading a ZIP with what I think was the original script.

[tepples]

In case it disappears from Dropbox, I've attached it.

[retroOtoko]

Hello friends,

I just found myself in a situation where I thought it would be nice to be able to import NESASM's FNS files into FCEUX, so I took rainwarrior's script and made the necessary adjustments. Please excuse my horrendous formatting and whatnot - just wanted to get it working, and this is also my first time with Python.

It runs as a simple Python script with 1 argument - the FNS file for input. If it finds that file it will then ask you to input the beginning and ending hex addresses of each consecutive bank, then allocate symbols per bank accordingly.

Also given the convention to define variables in RAM using .rs, it looks in that same directory for a file called "Variables.txt" to create the nl file for RAM. "Variables.txt" would just have a bunch of variables declared as such:
;Assumes this comes somewhere after .rsset $0000
var1 .rs 1
var2 .rs 1
var3 .rs 1
;etc etc etc

Cheers,

M

[Zutano]

Late to the party here, but this is the script I use to convert my projects (before I started using asm6f). Not sure if it works with multiple banks, I've only ever used it for NROM projects.

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#!/usr/bin/env python3

import sys, re

with open(sys.argv[1], 'r') as fnsfile:
	for line in fnsfile:
		if ';' not in line:
			parts = re.split(r'\s*=\s*', line.strip())
			print('%s#%s#' % (parts[1], parts[0]))

Just paste it in a file like "fns2nl.py" and run it from your favorite command shell like "python3 fns2nl.py inputfile.fns > outputfile.0.nl"