I heard that recent AI can create an NES emulator, so I tried it out.
I used Claude Opus 4.6 to create this.
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OMG what???
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Man…this is SO CRAZY?
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No words, my hat to you @cx20 !
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That is pretty fire.
Now you need to make a simple 3d arcade case and stick that as the texture for the screen.
Or like an old school TV sittin on a shag carpet XD
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I mean, how to play Donkey Kong ???
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Does it look something like this?
This is not the result of the NES, but a glTF model (Virtual City) displayed with a CRT shader.
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I have confirmed that AI can create an NES emulator in C and JavaScript.
Based on experience, I believe it is possible to do this with other languages and combinations of graphics APIs.
The evolution of AI never stops.
how to actually see it emulating a game?
I’ve made it so that it can be run by dragging and dropping a ROM file.
I can’t tell you where to get the ROM file, so you’ll have to find it yourself.
The triangular sample below is an NES file that I created myself.
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2042 works like a charm !
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This is so cool thanks a ton for the loader support !!!
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This is a very dangerous playground, like would it count as working if I’m testing it with Megaman 2??? 
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I’ve confirmed that the nestest.nes ROM, which tests the NES CPU, works.
It seems to be mostly working, but there’s a possibility of bugs in graphics, sound, timing, etc.
There’s room for improvement, but I’m satisfied with its current performance.
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I guess so @AlitarSemiramis, at least I wont be alone
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This is a complete aside, but…
I’ve confirmed that it can be ported to C + GDI/Direct2D/X11/12/OpenGL4.6/Vulkan1.4.
I was also able to port it to Excel VBA lol
https://github.com/cx20/hello/blob/master/native_win/c/gdi/nes_triangle/hello.c
https://github.com/cx20/hello/blob/master/native_win/c/direct2d/nes_triangle/hello.c
https://github.com/cx20/hello/blob/master/native_win/c/directx11/nes_triangle/hello.c
https://github.com/cx20/hello/blob/master/native_win/c/directx12/nes_triangle/hello.c
https://github.com/cx20/hello/blob/master/native_win/c/opengl4.6/nes_triangle/hello.c
https://github.com/cx20/hello/blob/master/native_win/c/vulkan1.4/nes_triangle/hello.c
https://github.com/cx20/hello/blob/master/scripting/excel_vba/opengl4.6/nes_triangle/src/hello.bas
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I also had an AI create an NES simulator that uses a warehouse analogy to explain the NES’s structure.
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Love the analogy!
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