Emulator that can dump pattern/name tables, palette, etc

[Banshaku]

I would like to know how many emulators are able to dump the content of the pattern/name tables, palette, OAM, chr-rom? To extract data from existing game is sometime useful for quick test data.

I found that Rocknes can do it but is it the only one?

[Memblers]

Seems like I often used NESten when I needed a quick memory dump. I'm probably behind the times though. It's been years since I've tried Rocknes.

I've used NESticle to check out palettes, and OAM you can just pick out of RAM.

[Bregalad]

Any emulator that have the ability to take savestates and that doesn't compress them

[Banshaku]

Any emulator that have the ability to take savestates and that doesn't compress them

Yes, in that sense it's true. It just that it requires a little bit more job than a menu that says dump this or dump that, which is more convivial. That's what I like about Rocknes, the ability to dump that data easily.

So maybe most recent modern emulators doesn't have this feature then.

[ccovell]

Mednafen is quite a good multi-platform emu that has a good debugger (Alt-D), CHR viewer (Alt-2) and memory viewer/dumper (Alt-3) in debugger mode.

[Banshaku]

Mednafen is quite a good multi-platform emu that has a good debugger (Alt-D), CHR viewer (Alt-2) and memory viewer/dumper (Alt-3) in debugger mode.

Thanks for the comment, never heard of this emulator before. I will give it a try.

Offtopic: Hi fellow Canadian How is life in japan? I think you've been there for a while now. I was reading you site long time ago, the time when solar war was made. The good old days.

[SecretServiceDude]

Hi fellow Canadian How is life in japan? I think you've been there for a while now. I was reading you site long time ago, the time when solar war was made. The good old days.

@Banshaku: 日本人ですか？カナダ人ですか？

[tokumaru]

@Banshaku: 日本人ですか？カナダ人ですか？

私はＢＡＮＳＨＡＫＵさんが日本に入るカナダ人ですと思います。そうですね、ＢＡＮＳＨＡＫＵさん？

(I hope that made sense, I haven't written any japanese in ages)

[SecretServiceDude]

(I hope that made sense, I haven't written any japanese in ages)

It made perfect sense to me, my good man.

I'm in the same boat. I lived in Japan for a while and used to have passable Japanese ability, but I haven't used it much in the last few years.

今は日本語を使わないので、全然忘れてしまいました。

[Banshaku]

@SecretServiceDude

そうですよ。住んでるだけ.１００％カナダ人heh!

@Tokumaru

The 私は in that case is not necessary.　There is maybe another grammatical point in it, maybe around the です but I'm not sure. I'm still between 3kyu and 2kyu so still a lot to learn. That's why I may not be the best to correct grammatical errors, if any And in japan, people don't correct you because it's rude so even if what I say　at the office is not correct, nobody will tell me -_-;;

[tokumaru]

I was expecting some corrections! =)

The 私は in that case is not necessary.

I decided to add it for completeness, but I guess it does make the sentence unnatural, since the japanese only write the necessary.

That's why I may not be the best to correct grammatical errors, if any

I appreciate corrections, and, since you live in Japan, you're the best person to get them from at the moment! =)

And in japan, people don't correct you because it's rude so even if what I say　at the office is not correct, nobody will tell me -_-;;

That's tough! It ends up making it harder for you to learn the language...

Damn, I would so like to live for a while in Japan like you guys...!