Hi!!

Well I was planning to make some patches for BoF 4 and Chorno Cross to actually make them a harder to make a better use of their gameplay systems. I love both of them, but the fact of the game being soo easy destroys the fun to people like me

My hacking experience was only making a gameplay patch for Secret of Evermore, so I don't know much about the PSX hacking world.

Any help with recommended programs to debug/ watch, guides to understand where and how edit the games, etc would be MUCH appreciated.

Thanks,
Ninakoru.

For code debugging, this build of PCSX is the best choice (should be fully compatible with both BoFIV and CC). There's also pSX, which provides a few more options, but it's rather unstable and doesn't even use standard aliases for register names (really annoying).

As for Slowbeef's guide, I wouldn't recommend it if you're already somewhat familiar with any other type of debugging: it's basically "Debuggers for dummies" and there's virtually nothing PlayStation specific in there that you cannot already find in a ton other guides. Try looking on google for the official SDK and Sony's docs about the hardware. Those provide so much more information and actually represent useful data about functions, registers, and programming procedures.