Proper DS OAM Viewer

[Ryan914]

I already know Desmume has it, but it doesn't act like Visual Boy Advance's, Desmume's views all the sprites on the screen rather than the individual sprites themselves. (Doesn't get rid of blurs/sparks) Which is a bitch since I am planning to rip Valarm, and possibly Valzacard from SRW W, maybe even Tekkaman Dead and continue Arm Arcus.

What I am really asking is: Can I find a OAM Viewer for a DS Emulator that acts like Visual Boy Advance's OAM Viewer

[puggsoy]

The best I could find is Dualis, its OAM viewer seems to work as you want, but unfortunately it doesn't run commercial ROMs. iDeaS appears to have some kind of OAM "viewer" in its debugger, although it just gives a bunch of hex and doesn't actually help unless you know what to do with it.

Unfortunately that's all I know, sorry!

[Garamonde]

The writer of that page is also rather ignorant and rude.

Also what do you mean it doesn't run ROMs? It's an emulator isn't it?
I understand the part about NDS cartridge dumps but that's basically what ROMs are... what does it mean by binaries? Do emulatable games come in those...?

[puggsoy]

It doesn't run commercial ROMs, only homebrew, and probably not all homebrew either. An emulator simply emulates the system's hardware as best as it can, but getting it to run exactly the same (and run commercial ROMs) is difficult, and a lot of emulators started off with just being able to run homebrew. Dualis looks like an emulator that could have been good, but apparently the creator didn't find it worth the effort to make it any more compatible. The source code is available, maybe someone will pick it up again, although I don't think that's likely since it's only advantage over other emulators is the OAM viewer which isn't really worth the effort.
And I think "binaries" is the type of code or whatever used to make the ROM (i.e. ARM7 and ARM9, whatever those mean). It says it only runs ARM9, which may be one reason why it can't run commercial ROMs.

One possibility is contacting the DeSmuME developer and asking about improving the OAM viewer. He's sort of active, the most recent update was in August (which is relatively recent). However I have no idea how to contact him, and I doubt he reads all the comments on his blog (if any).

By the way, since we're talking about that, you should get DeSmuME 0.9.8 if you haven't already.

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ARM7 and ARM9 are the DS processors (ARM7 is the GBA one).