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<h1>Debugging Tools</h1>
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<p>The debugging capabilities of Mesen are split across a number of different tools, including the debugger itself:</p>
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<p><a href=./debugging/apuviewer.html>APU Viewer</a>: Displays every detail of the APU’s current state for each channel.<br>
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<a href=./debugging/ppuviewer.html>PPU Viewer</a>: Displays information on the nametables, sprites, CHR banks and palette. Contains a CHR graphic editor and a palette editor. <br>
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<a href=./debugging/scriptwindow.html>Script Window</a>: Allows the execution of Lua scripts, which can communicate with the emulation via an API.<br>
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<a href=./debugging/texthooker.html>Text Hooker</a>: Converts text shown on the screen into a text string (useful when trying to translate games.)<br>
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<a href=./debugging/tracelogger.html>Trace Logger</a>: View or log to a file the execution trace of the CPU and PPU.</p>
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<p>Additionally, some other smaller features are available from the main debugger window. e.g:</p>
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<li>Save any modification done to PRG/CHR ROM via the <a href=./debugging/ppuviewer.html#chr-viewer>CHR Viewer</a>, <a href=./debugging/assembler.html>Assembler</a> or the <a href=./debugging/memorytools.html#memory-viewer>Memory Viewer</a> as a new <code>.nes</code> file, or as an <code>.ips</code> patch file</li>
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