CemuhookPatchesWriter: A C++ repository from Crementif

Cemuhook patches writer

A program that makes writing Cemuhook patches a bit easier by making it more organic and less error-prone.

It basically extends Cemuhook's format with a few Quality of Life features which it then "compiles" into a Cemuhook patch:

Automatically addresses numbering (no need to refactor code in some cases due to a line change).
Automatically calculates and inserts code cave size.
Interprets the loading of constant values in the code cave and makes the addresses for you.
Makes code cave entries more elegant/smarter.
Always-on-top mode for easy access.

It doesn't change any existing behavior and using these added features should be fairly easy.

Latest version for Windows can be downloaded in Releases.

What does it add?

A good example of all of the different things/behavior can be seen in the example folder!

codeCaveSize=auto ; Handles the size on it's own.

codeCaveEntry:
fmuls f3, f3, f2 ; No addresses in front of everything.
lfs f2, .float($aCemuExpression*10)@l(r3) ; Cemu expression directly into a float register, it's possible!
lbz r2, .byte(2) ; Other types are also supported! Also, it will use the same, normal register if you don't hint it using `@l(rX)`.
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How to compile this program on Windows

This assumes you've installed the C++ part in Visual Studio.

Download and install Qt. Make sure to select MSVC while it's installing.
Clone or download this repository somewhere.
Open up the special Qt X.XX.X (MSVC XXXX XX-bit) command prompt.
Browse to the folder where you've cloned/downloaded the repository and go to the src folder.
Go to the src folder.
Find a file called vcvarsall.bat somewhere in your Visual Studio installation folder and call it from within the CMD window via the following command (replace the path to the one you've found): call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64.
Run qmake -config release
Run nmake
And finally, run windeployqt --release release.

You should now have a working notepad.exe in the release folder!

(I'm honestly not sure if there's an easier way to compile a program from the command prompt, but this worked well enough to create the Release build.)

But why

Basically, I wanted to try Qt and had a good idea/need for a tool that would help with some of the aspects of patching ~~and totally not lessen the amount of screw-ups I make~~.

License

This project is largely based and build upon Qt's notepad example, which is licensed under BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License. This project is also distributed under the same license.

Crementif/CemuhookPatchesWriter