badnes

A nearly complete NES emulator in a single 750-line C++ source file

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                EMULATOR

A nearly complete NES emulator in a single 700-line C++ source file, based on LaiNES.

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Features

Requirements

Building

*nix systems

git clone --recursive https://github.com/Ta180m/BadNES && cd BadNES
g++ main.cpp -o badnes -std=c++11 -lSDL2main -lSDL2 -O3

Windows

git clone --recursive https://github.com/Ta180m/BadNES && cd BadNES
g++ main.cpp -o badnes -std=c++11 -IC:\mingw\include\SDL2 -LC:\mingw\lib -w -Wl,-subsystem,windows -lmingw32 -lSDL2main -lSDL2 -O3

Usage

*nix systems

./badnes [path to ROM]

Windows

Drag ROM over badnes.exe

Alternatively, use

badnes.exe [path to ROM]

Controls

        UP  -  UP
      DOWN  -  DOWN
      LEFT  -  LEFT
     RIGHT  -  RIGHT
         A  -  A
         B  -  S
     START  -  ENTER
    SELECT  -  SPACE
SAVE STATE  -  Q
LOAD STATE  -  W

Compatibility

BadNES implements the most common mappers, which should be enough for a good percentage of the games: - NROM (Mapper 000) - MMC1 / SxROM (Mapper 001) - UxROM (Mapper 002) - CNROM (Mapper 003) - MMC3, MMC6 / TxROM (Mapper 004) - AxROM (Mapper 007) (Not well supported, expect bugs!)

You can check the compatibility for each ROM in the following list: http://tuxnes.sourceforge.net/nesmapper.txt

FAQ

Why the name?

http://www.usaco.org/index.php?page=viewproblem2&cpid=1041

Why did you do this?

I really like LaiNES: it's very minimal and compact — but it has several dependencies, so I try to write the shortest NES emulator possible, in a single source file.

There's no sound!

I'm working on it right now.

What do you mean by "nearly complete"?

I'll say it's complete once I finish implementing the APU.

This game doesn't work!

Check to make sure BadNES implements its mapper. Also, Mapper 7 is known to be especially buggy.

Credits

Special thanks to Andrea Orru for creating LaiNES, the emulator that this project derives much of its code from.