Finding Jingle Town: Debugging an N64 Game Without Symbols

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Post by knackers » Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 8:39 PM UTC

Finding Jingle Town: Debugging an N64 Game Without Symbols
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Re: Finding Jingle Town: Debugging an N64 Game Without Symbols

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Post by a_t48 » Mon, Dec 29, 2025, 7:55 AM UTC

I wonder if something like '-gsplit-dwarf' would help - if the version of gcc they are using even supports it.

Re: Finding Jingle Town: Debugging an N64 Game Without Symbols

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Post by xobs » Mon, Dec 29, 2025, 10:56 AM UTC

You can load additional symbols into gdb without restarting it by using `add-symbol-file`, which you can use to iterate on the symbol mapping.

Re: Finding Jingle Town: Debugging an N64 Game Without Symbols

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Post by zote » Mon, Dec 29, 2025, 11:00 AM UTC

I'm trying to start a decompilation project for a GameCube game any pointers from people here on how to go about it.

Re: Finding Jingle Town: Debugging an N64 Game Without Symbols

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Post by Graziano_M » Mon, Dec 29, 2025, 11:56 AM UTC

The other doesn't actually need to not modify the (elf) binary, meaning he could add symbols to it or whatever as extra metadata. What matters is that all of the on-cartridge assets don't have their addresses changed from the perspective of the system (emulator) and the section/segment headers.

Re: Finding Jingle Town: Debugging an N64 Game Without Symbols

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Post by bubblegumdrop » Mon, Dec 29, 2025, 10:57 PM UTC

zote wrote: post #4

I'm trying to start a decompilation project for a GameCube game any pointers from people here on how to go about it.

Well, there is sm64 PC port which is a MIPS decompiler that wraps the game data. There is dolphin project which would be the nearest GCN equivalent. GCN uses PowerPC architecture so it would help to know that instruction set as well.