ProView Plus for PlayStation®2

Overview

Proview Plus for PlayStation®2 is a software tool for post-mortem debugging on the new Sony Computer Entertainment PlayStation®2 development hardware DTL-H3010*LT.

Debugging your game on a DTL-H3010*LT will enable you to find those bugs that only appear on the retail console and cannot easily be debugged by other means. Proview Plus can also be used for debugging games with online features that use the network adapter.

Proview PLUS for PlayStation®2 consists of host and target software. The host software consists of a post-mortem debugger and a Target Manager plug-in providing communication with the DTL-H3010*LT over i.LINK. The target software (contained on a start-up card) provides debug communications (DECI2 over i.LINK) using SN Systems' reduced footprint driver.

The post mortem debugger provides memory and register views of a crashed game.

Features and Benefits

ProView Plus is supplied with host and target software. The host software, Target Manager, provides facilities for loading and running ELFs. The target software is used to boot the console and control communications with the host software.

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• Post mortem debugging
  

Proview Plus is ideal for investigating crash bugs with your game. Once crashed, connect to the DTL-H3010*LT with the post-mortem debugger to see the state of:

• Memory (EE, VUs and IOP)
• Registers (EE, VUs and IOP)
• Variables
• Call stack
• Line of code at crash
• Full debugging support
  

ProView Plus can be used for debugging your games when used with ProDG for PlayStation®2 (not included). Full source level debugging of the Emotion Engine™, Vector Units (VU0/VU1), DMA and IOP is supported.

• Minimal Memory Overhead
  

The SN Systems i.LINK drivers have a small IOP memory footprint of less than 200KB, leaving the remainder free for your game code or drivers.

• Flexible Connectivity
  

Using the i.LINK port means the USB and Network Adaptor (Ethernet) connections are left free, allowing you to develop and debug software that uses external peripherals such as the EyeToy™ USB Camera, or online games.

• Full fileserving support
  

Full file serving facilities are provided for both the Emotion Engine™ and the IOP through standard file functions (sceOpen, sceRead etc.) and the standard "host:" file prefix.

• SDK and command-line facilities
  

A fully featured software development kit (SDK) is included free with ProView Plus. This kit allows you to write tools and plug-ins that communicate via Target Manager to the PlayStation®2. Use it to automate testing, or provide your artists with tools to preview artwork, sound samples and level designs quickly and easily. The following is a list of just a few of the features supported:

• Connect to/Disconnect from targets
  
• Download and run ELF and IRX files on the target
  
• GET and SET target memory
• GET and SET target registers
  
• Capture TTY output from the target
  
• Receive target status information
  

System requirements

• Windows 2000 or Windows XP PC with IEEE-1394 (i.LINK) interface connection and Network interface adapter
• Sony Computer Entertainment PlayStation®2 development hardware DTL-H3010*LT

Prices

Please contact contact@snsys.com for further information.