My emulator is coming along nicely

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lemmurg
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My emulator is coming along nicely

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I had doubts I would make it so far due to my constant lack of motivation, but I managed to make Donkey Kong playable in my emulator.
grumpines0.png
It's written in MoonScript which compiles to Lua, and it uses the LOVE framework and LuaJIT - that makes it a JIT compiled NES emulator that runs on Windows, Linux, MacOS and mobile platforms.

I will probably release the code under the GPL once it's more complete.
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Hell yeah :D
grumpines1.png
(not shown: scrolling is broken and the game crashes when Mario reaches the first pipe)
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Congrats. Able to emulate SMB's title screen perfectly is a milestone in getting "simple" games to work.
I think a lot of emulator authors got a lot of troubles there.
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Thanks, Gilbert. It's a fun project and I couldn't have done any of this without the NesDev wiki.
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