Regression: Power Cycle in debugger doesn't reload rom file

[veremenko-y]

Regression: Power Cycle in debugger doesn't reload rom file

[bunder2015]

This is intentional, if you wish to reload the ROM you can do it from the main window, under the File menu.

[veremenko-y]

This is intentional, if you wish to reload the ROM you can do it from the main window, under the File menu.

I know I can. But now instead of using hotkey on the keyboard, I had to grab the mouse, switch the window, go trough menu, then click back on the debugger. Plus this change was non announced on the changelog, which I would consider breaking change.

[bunder2015]

Here is the commit that changed it... 43811ae

The reason it was changed was that it would cause the debugger to throw away changes when you had to reset/powercycle the game, which can make debugging and programming inside mesen a little tricky.

edit: there is a shortcut key option in the preferences for reloading the ROM, but I'm not sure if it's bound by default.

[veremenko-y]

The reason it was changed was that it would cause the debugger to throw away changes when you had to reset/powercycle the game, which can make debugging and programming inside mesen a little tricky.

I respectfully disagree. From my perspective it makes researching/modifying existing ROM painful. What's the reasonable context to preserve local changes, if my ROM derives from the my own code? I'm not saying this should be reverted, but I really need an option or separate shortcut to work on my code. I wasted too much time debugging stale ROMs, because I forgot to reload it. I had to downgrade to previous version.

Shortcut requires to switch focus to main menu, which doesn't help much.