diff --git a/compile_qemu_nyx.sh b/compile_qemu_nyx.sh
index a3702b0b10..3feb3560c6 100755
--- a/compile_qemu_nyx.sh
+++ b/compile_qemu_nyx.sh
@@ -28,11 +28,11 @@ error()
   echo "$0: <option>"
   echo ""
   echo "Available compile options: "
-  echo " -  dynamic       dynamically link libxdc and capstone4"
-  echo " -  static        statically link libxdc and capstone4"
-  echo " -  lto           statically link libxdc and capstone4 and enable LTO (up to 10% better performance)"
-  echo " -  debug         enable several debug options"
-  echo " -  debug_static  enable several debug options and statically link libxdc and capstone4"
+  echo " -  dynamic        dynamically link libxdc and capstone4"
+  echo " -  static         statically link libxdc and capstone4"
+  echo " -  lto            enable static linking and LTO (up to 10% better performance)"
+  echo " -  debug          enable debug and ASAN options"
+  echo " -  debug_static   enable debug, ASAN and static linking"
   echo ""
   exit 1
 }
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ compile_libraries()
 
 configure_qemu()
 {
-  QEMU_CONFIGURE="./configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --disable-gtk --disable-docs --enable-gtk --disable-werror --disable-capstone --disable-libssh --disable-tools"
+  QEMU_CONFIGURE="./configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --disable-docs --disable-gtk --disable-werror --disable-capstone --disable-libssh --disable-tools"
 
   case $1 in
     "debug_static"|"static"|"lto")
@@ -68,10 +68,10 @@ configure_qemu()
       $QEMU_CONFIGURE --enable-nyx
       ;;
     "debug")
-      $QEMU_CONFIGURE --enable-nyx --enable-sanitizers --enable-debug
+      $QEMU_CONFIGURE --enable-nyx --enable-sanitizers --enable-debug --enable-nyx-debug
       ;;
     "debug_static")
-      $QEMU_CONFIGURE --enable-nyx --enable-sanitizers --enable-debug --enable-nyx-static
+      $QEMU_CONFIGURE --enable-nyx --enable-sanitizers --enable-debug --enable-nyx-debug --enable-nyx-static
       ;;
     "static")
       $QEMU_CONFIGURE --enable-nyx --enable-nyx-static
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index af144b6690..c32757c60e 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -955,6 +955,8 @@ for opt do
   ;;
   --enable-nyx-flto) nyx_flto="yes"
   ;;
+  --enable-nyx-debug) nyx_debug="yes"
+  ;;
   --version|-V) exec cat $source_path/VERSION
   ;;
   --prefix=*) prefix="$optarg"
@@ -6104,6 +6106,10 @@ write_c_skeleton
 if test "$nyx" = "yes" ; then
   CFLAGS="-DNESTED_PATCH -Wno-error=maybe-uninitialized -DQEMU_NYX -g -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 $QEMU_CFLAGS"
 
+  if test "$nyx_debug" = "yes"; then
+    CFLAGS="-DNYX_DEBUG $CFLAGS"
+  fi
+
   if test "$nyx_static" = "yes" ; then
     LIBS="-l:libcapstone.a -l:libxdc.a $LIBS"
   else
diff --git a/nyx/debug.h b/nyx/debug.h
index 4553792941..f79ce82a8c 100644
--- a/nyx/debug.h
+++ b/nyx/debug.h
@@ -26,18 +26,19 @@
 #define ENDC	"\033[0m"
 
 
-//#define debug_printf(format, ...) printf (format, ##__VA_ARGS__)
-//#define debug_fprintf(fd, format, ...) fprintf (fd, format, ##__VA_ARGS__)
-//#define QEMU_PT_PRINTF(PREFIX, format, ...) printf (QEMU_PT_PRINT_PREFIX COLOR PREFIX format ENDC "\n", ##__VA_ARGS__)
-//#define QEMU_PT_PRINTF_DBG(PREFIX, format, ...) printf (QEMU_PT_PRINT_PREFIX PREFIX "(%s#:%d)\t"format, __BASE_FILE__, __LINE__, ##__VA_ARGS__)
-//#define QEMU_PT_PRINTF_DEBUG(format, ...)  fprintf (stderr, QEMU_PT_PRINT_PREFIX DEBUG_VM_PREFIX "(%s#:%d)\t"format "\n", __BASE_FILE__, __LINE__, ##__VA_ARGS__)
-
+#ifdef NYX_DEBUG
+#define debug_printf(format, ...) printf (format, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+#define debug_fprintf(fd, format, ...) fprintf (fd, format, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+#define QEMU_PT_PRINTF(PREFIX, format, ...) printf (QEMU_PT_PRINT_PREFIX COLOR PREFIX format ENDC "\n", ##__VA_ARGS__)
+#define QEMU_PT_PRINTF_DBG(PREFIX, format, ...) printf (QEMU_PT_PRINT_PREFIX PREFIX "(%s#:%d)\t"format, __BASE_FILE__, __LINE__, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+#define QEMU_PT_PRINTF_DEBUG(format, ...)  fprintf (stderr, QEMU_PT_PRINT_PREFIX DEBUG_VM_PREFIX "(%s#:%d)\t"format "\n", __BASE_FILE__, __LINE__, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+#else
 #define debug_printf(format, ...) 
 #define debug_fprintf(fd, format, ...) 
 #define QEMU_PT_PRINTF(PREFIX, format, ...)
 #define QEMU_PT_PRINTF_DBG(PREFIX, format, ...)
 #define QEMU_PT_PRINTF_DEBUG(format, ...)  
-
+#endif
 
 
 #ifdef ENABLE_BACKTRACES
@@ -46,4 +47,4 @@ void qemu_backtrace(void);
 void init_crash_handler(void);
 void hexdump_kafl(const void* data, size_t size);
 
-#endif
\ No newline at end of file
+#endif
diff --git a/nyx/sharedir.c b/nyx/sharedir.c
index 0920013355..9ca6823c37 100644
--- a/nyx/sharedir.c
+++ b/nyx/sharedir.c
@@ -170,4 +170,4 @@ uint64_t sharedir_request_file(sharedir_t* self, const char* file, uint8_t* page
 	  fprintf(stderr, "WARNING: No such file in sharedir: %s\n", file);
     return 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUL;
   }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}