vines

A NES emulator written in Rust.

Try the examples

• Install Rust
• Install the SDL2 library
• Try out one of the examples by running cargo run --release --example [example_name]. For the pacman example, you will need to legally own the game's ROM dump.

Resources

General

• https://github.com/bugzmanov/nes_ebook, where it all started for me
• https://www.nesdev.org, no NES emulator is built without it

CPU

• https://archive.org/details/6502UsersManual/mode/2up, a nice reference to the 6502 processor (not the Ricoh version though)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502
• https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/17888/what-is-the-mos-6502-doing-on-each-cycle-of-an-instruction
• https://floooh.github.io/2021/12/17/cycle-stepped-z80.html

PPU

• https://austinmorlan.com/posts/nes_rendering_overview, a great resource to understand how PPU works