ASM files are temporarily generated when assembling Gecko codes. They are deleted when the build process has finished.

Provide a option to keep generated ASM files as it is useful for debugging purposes.

Outputting code types can have an annotation/description at the beginning of the code line.

For example:

defineCodes:
    createCode "Cool code":
        authors "???"
        description "My cool code"

        patchInsertAsm "80089284":
            description "Does stuff"
            nop

        patchInsertAsm "80089288":
            description "Does MORE stuff"
            nop

Output gecko code:

$Cool code [???]
*My cool code
04089284 60000000 # Does stuff
04089288 60000000 # Does MORE stuff

Allow assembled Gecko codes to be outputted as different files. Only .txt files are supported at the moment.

• GCT
• Binary

Currently, you have to import each code individually as seen here:

# codes/melee/buildmelee.nim
import geckon, melee / [fighters/hands/chfixlaser, random/randdmgmulti], melee/random/randangles

build:
    importAll randdmgmulti
    importAll chfixlaser
    importall randangles
# truncated...

1. Allow ASM file contents to be included
2. Write a gecko codes parser

Allow ASM file contents to be included

Would be nice to be able to just include an ASM file and it would load in its ASM contents.

Example

defineCodes:
    createCode "My New Code Name":
        authors "Bob"
        description "Does cool things"

        patchWrite32Bits "802724A4":
            %includeFile "singlepatch.asm"
        
        patchInsertAsm "802724A8":
            %includeFile "coolcode.asm"
            li r3, 0
            # can add more code...

Write a gecko codes parser

Would allow for creating codes based on a text file or binary file containing compiled gecko codes

Generated files take on the following format: [filename]_[codename]_[targetAddress]

For a file named leech.nim with:

    createCode "Leech Mode - Heal on Every Hit":
        patchInsertAsm "8006d43c":

The file name would be: leech_lm-hoeh_8006D43C.

Notice how it includes the - character. We want it to include ONLY letters from a to z and no special characters.

At the moment, all generated .asm and .o files are outputted to a folder called generated.

Would be nice to be able to make our generated ASM files compatible with other gecko build tools such as the one from Jlaferri/gecko.

All it needs is a header comment such as this one:

################################################################################
# Address: 80155fe4
# Codetype: Auto
# Annotation: Skip CH Entry Cutscene
################################################################################