Re: How to load full nametable from PRG?
Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2018 7:34 pm
He previously had an separate thread/post about this subject in general but it got deleted (probably by him -- I know because I had typed up a lengthly reply and phpBB told me the thread no longer existed), and put a post/reply in here instead.rainwarrior wrote:For the mean time, why not just save as the binary and then .incbin it in your assembly? Is there something you need the .asm export specifically for? You can see the exact same data with a hex editor on the binary version.
I proposed the copy-to-clipboard solution earlier in this thread as a possible workaround because he originally said the file export/save feature didn't work at all. But the copy-to-clipboard method doesn't give you the RLE'd .db data, only the non-RLE'd version -- so it's incbin or nothing if you want to use this tool and it's RLE export capability.
He needs to know how to include this file in his project/code exactly (segment-wise, etc.). This is always a big struggle for people new to ca65 etc., so people need a lot more hand-holding to understand how to get all of that working (tuning .cfg, using proper segments, etc.) rather than a more "bare-bones" assembler/linker.
I also covered earlier that the code included with nesst.zip is for NESASM and will need to be converted/changed to work with ca65, which I'm assuming is what he's using (re: segment question).