Psx ram dumpin

[jin299]

Could someone please explain to me what ram dumping means.

And if so is there any psx emulators thst allow wiuld allow me to it and if so how exacly do you go about creating one.

I was always under the impression that a ram dump of a game is very similar to a ram memory viewer?

[Pyriel]

I don't think there are any PSX emulators that can't be used to pull a RAM dump, though you might have to use certain plugins. RAM dumps are somewhat similar to a viewer. Instead of viewing the RAM as the game is playing, you save a snapshot of some portion of the RAM contents at one point in time to a binary file. Then you can pull the results up at your leisure in whatever hex editor or viewer you like.

It's essentially what cheat searchers do behind the scenes, possibly minus some metadata that helps with comparisons and later searches. Some reasons you might prefer them to live-viewing is if you're trying to break down something complex, and you want to have to a record of the values, or if you want to disassemble the code in the dump, and have live data from when the game is running in the disassembly. There are plenty of other reasons. However, if you have a cheat searcher and all you want to do is find the location where the money value is stored, taking dumps and searching manually is probably a waste of time.