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Finding Jingle Town: Debugging an N64 Game Without Symbols


Debuggers are an invaluable tool for decompilation but a lack of symbols can make it challenging to effectively use them. This post provides an overview of my own workflow applied to a seasonally appropriate problem: figuring out how the game loads Jingle Town.

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