NES Crash Handler
Platform: Nintendo Entertainment System
Version: 2.8.1
Release Date: 2020-10-22
This program is a custom crash handler for software running on the Nintendo Entertainment System. It displays various information about the state of the processor at the time of the crash. This program is intended for debugging NES software, and is run when a BRK
instruction is executed. The signiture byte of the BRK
instruction is used as the crash ID number. Each revision of this program seeks to bring the its size down.
The size of crash handler version 2.8.1 is 410 bytes (down from the original 544 bytes).