nes-rust ("Muenster")

An emulator for the NES, written in Rust.

Priorities:

• WASM support from the start
• Try Bevy game engine for Frontend (audio, input, screen)
• Unit tested
• CI on commit: linting, unit tests, releases
• Try some Rust patterns for midsized projects...
  • break up the repo into modules?
  • run benchmarks?

References

Howto

• Book with Walkthrough: https://bugzmanov.github.io/nes_ebook
• Spec:
  • https://www.nesdev.org/obelisk-6502-guide/reference.html
  • http://www.6502.org/tutorials/6502opcodes.html
• NES Test Roms: https://github.com/christopherpow/nes-test-roms
• Other Roms:
  • https://www.nesworld.com/article.php?system=nes&data=neshomebrew
  • https://www.nesfiles.com/Games
• 6502 details
  • overflow and underflow: https://www.righto.com/2012/12/the-6502-overflow-flag-explained.html
• Making Games
  • and more.. https://github.com/denisenepraunig/nes-development
• How games should look:
  • Donkey Kong 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p54nqmtK50Y&ab_channel=IGN
  • Pacman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxFjFS-idYk&ab_channel=WorldofLongplays

Other interesting Tools

• https://github.com/tedsteen/nes-bundler