Utility description
MESSIDA - a debugger plugin for
IDA Pro that allows you to debug
Sega Genesis/Megadrive ROMs.
GitHub source code: https://github.com/DrMefistO/messida
How to use:
It's preffered to install these tools before you will use
MESSIDA: https://github.com/DrMefistO/smd_ida_tools/releases
Then put "
messida.plw" into plugins directory of your
IDA Pro (version that greater or equal to
6.5). Then, open your ROM, and select
MESSIDA in debuggers.
In "
Debug-Process options" you can setup some options, that allows
MESS does.
These flags are enabled by default: "
-debug -cart {opened_rom_path}", and you cannot change them. And, flag "
genesis" is specified by default, but you may change it to another
MD-version (for specifying region).