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Add Support for Bizhawk's comm module

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
api

Research direction

Start by locating the comm module and the code that parses incoming commands. Trace how the existing command format is read, then verify that a byte-count prefix such as 12 starttimer\r\n is accepted while the command and line ending remain usable. Done means Bizhawk's prefixed messages work through the module.

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Description

As it is, Bizhawk prepends every command with the number of bytes of the sent message; i.e. sending "starttimer\r\n" actually sends 12 starttimer\r\n. It would be helpful if this module could accept this format, especially since I imagine interacting with Bizhawk is a common use case for this module.

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