Hacking Final Fantasy 1 on the NES

Re:Hacking Final Fantasy 1 on the NES by bbitmaster on Monday March 20, 2017 @03:54AM (#13912464)

I designed and coded the FCEUXD hex editor shown here. I did this back in 2004 when I was a teenager -- built it in C in pure win32 API. It's great to see it still show up when people are hacking NES games.

I remember on my 1.33Ghz AMD machine at the time, it could not draw all of the RAM values in real time without causing considerable slowdown. I rewrote the code so that it only redraws ram values that changed, keeping a buffer of old values and checking for changes.

I also worked on other parts of FCEUXD including creating code/data logger. Parasyte coded the debugger.

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Re:Hacking Final Fantasy 1 on the NES by gavinlynch on Monday March 20, 2017 @09:44AM (#13914115)

hey bbitmaster :)

i remember when you were creating that debugger, long time no see. (what's it been, a decade?) Fceuxd was always the best romhacking emulator, gotta love those conditional break points!

this takes me back to the old days of beta testing, and hanging in #rom-hacking on irc hope you're well :)

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Re:Hacking Final Fantasy 1 on the NES by bbitmaster on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @12:28AM (#13919882)

Hey Gavin. Of course I remember you, it's been ages but great to hear from you. I would take this to PM but Hacker News doesn't seem to offer such a feature. I currently work in the bay area, in Machine Learning (I only mention it in case you happen to reside in the bay area). Anyway, feel free to e-mail me at my username at gmail.

Good times :-)

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