It's true.  If you try persistently to learn the debugger you will get very skilled very fast.  I was reluctant to make the effort, but I was glad when I did.  It made finding and tracing data a hundred times easier, I could find the commands that caused bankswapping, figured out how the bank numbers and memory addresses equate to ROM file addresses, and made me more ambitious.  You CAN use bankswapping to your advantage, but you should also know how to insert your own code first.  Opcodes are your allies, even if you don't know it yet. 

Maybe I take for granted that I once took an assembly class (forget which RISC architecture).  Maybe I take for granted that everyone has different aptitudes.  I think Kit has done translations before, so he's far from n00b.  That's why I think it's just fear hiding behind an excuse, because I've made that same excuse.  Maybe I forgot about the learning curve because I was too giddy with the simple joy of learning.  ASM is a gamechanger (in every sense of the word).  That's the end of my sales pitch. 

Well, it's not really an excuse... a few years ago I had some tests done and there's a huge chance that I may have some sort of learning disability caused by some problems in my brain. The doctor that examined me said I may have been slightly autistic growing up, and even now (she never really cleared this up.) So while I can do stuff like programming, it's actually very hard for me to learn how to do these things on my own. My brain doesn't work the same way most people's brains do.

An example - DarknessSavior sometimes asks me for help when he's trying to look for pointers or stuff in games he hacks. I figured out how the pointers in a couple of DS games work - but I couldn't explain how I came up with the formulas. They just popped into my head after I looked at the files in hex editors for a while. This, of course, made him wonder what's going on in my head.

Anyway.

I DO have a few theories on how to get this done, but I dunno how to program, so who knows when I'll be able to do this. If ever.

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Also, dude! "You think" I've done translations? WTF man, WTF!

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I hate not being able to bump this, so here. Blah.

That sounds like something g8z, z80 etc. would do.