ChibiNES

ChibiNES is NES emulator written by Go. This is my favorite hobby project!

Porting libretro/Mesen to Go. Priority was given to mimicking Mesen's behavior rather than refactoring.

• Screenshots
  • cmd/chibines (NES Console)
  • cmd/chibines-nsf (NSF Player)
• Download
• Spec
• Key binding
• Build & Run
• Dependencies
• FAQ
  • Why do you only support these mappers?
• ToDO
• Reference
  • Emulator
  • Documents
• Credit

Screenshots

cmd/chibines (NES Console)

cmd/chibines-nsf (NSF Player)

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1567423/175847470-15224c46-65da-4cf0-87a8-ef876d67629f.mp4

Download

• See Release page

Spec

• NTSC only
  • PAL, Dendy is not supported yet.
• Basic APU sound only (The following sound sources are currently not supported)
  • NAMCOT 16x (N160/N163)
  • MMC5
  • SUNSOFT 5B
  • VRC
• Mapper Support
  • [x] Mapper 0
  • [x] Mapper 1
  • [x] Mapper 2
  • [x] Mapper 3
  • [x] Mapper 4
  • [x] Mapper 16
  • [x] Mapper 31
    • For NSF Player

Key binding

Player 1

Player 2

Build & Run

• Install Library
  • portaudio

MacOSX

brew install portaudio

• build

go build cmd/chibines/main.go

• or go run

go run cmd/chibines/main.go

Dependencies

• Dear ImGUI (inkyblackness/imgui-go)
• GLFW
• portaudio

FAQ

Why do you only support these mappers?

Because it's my favorite games & for nes-test-roms

• Mapper0
  • Super Mario Bros
• Mapper1
  • Dragon Quest III
• Mapper16
  • SD Gundam Gaiden: Knight Gundam Monogatari 2: Hikari no Kishi
  • SD Gundam Gaiden: Knight Gundam Monogatari 3: Densetsu no Kishi Dan

ToDO

• [X] CPU
• [X] PPU
• [X] APU
• [X] NSF Player (cmd/chibines-nsf)
  • like VirtuaNES
• [ ] 6502 compiler
  • like cc65
• [ ] disassembler
• [ ] Interpreter (cmd/chibines-interpreter)
• [ ] Sprite extractor (cmd/chibines-sprites)
• [ ] ROM info CLI (cmd/chibines-rominfo)
• [ ] Debugger (like Mesen's Debugging tools)
• [ ] Test
  • [ ] nes-test-roms
    • like tetanes README.md
  • [ ] go testing (like integration test)
    • [ ] CPU
    • [ ] PPU
    • [ ] APU

Reference

Emulator

• CPU, PPU, APU, Mapper etc ...
  • libretro/Mesen
  • fogleman/nes
  • eteran/pretendo
  • lukexor/tetanes
  • ivysnow/virtuanes
  • sairoutine/faithjs
• NSF Player
  • theinternetftw/famigo

Documents

• Nesdev Wiki
  • CPU - NESdev Wiki
  • PPU - NESdev Wiki
  • APU - NESdev Wiki
  • Mapper - NESdev Wiki
• 6502 Instruction Set
• NesCartDB - Home

Credit

• Font
  • itouhiro/PixelMplus