VIP inspection tooling #4

2025-02-24T03:55:47Z

SonicSwordcane commented

2025-02-24 03:55:47 +00:00

Add several new windows to inspect different aspects of the VIP/rendering logic. The layouts are essentially copied from Guy's last emulator, the main functional difference is that they update in real time.

Tools include

Character Data (a grid of all 2048 characters in the system)
Background Maps (view any of the 16 BG maps)
Objects (view any of the 1024 objects)
Worlds (see individual worlds)
Framebuffers
Registers (memory address which control rendering but are hard to visualize)

They're all in the Tools dropdown

Add several new windows to inspect different aspects of the VIP/rendering logic. The layouts are essentially copied from Guy's last emulator, the main functional difference is that they update in real time. Tools include - Character Data (a grid of all 2048 characters in the system) - Background Maps (view any of the 16 BG maps) - Objects (view any of the 1024 objects) - Worlds (see individual worlds) - Framebuffers - Registers (memory address which control rendering but are hard to visualize) They're all in the Tools dropdown

SonicSwordcane added 33 commits 2025-02-24 03:55:47 +00:00

First pass of character data viewer 6c9265cb78

Dummy second window 75779f2b24

New implementation for reading/showing vram 57eebb5874

Flesh out bgmap viewer 4601f1b52f

Rerender VRAM graphics every frame (slow in debug) 600148c781

Avoid unnecessary computation/cloning in renderer a82389224f

Render images on background thread to keep UI responsive a461faf89d

Sync memory between emulator thread and UI ebe444870f

When the UI consumes an input, don't send it to the game ba15dc77ae

Add a number editor widget a5676c20d1

Move about into a button d16c5363da