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Building a NES Emulator in 15 Minutes

Bisqwit · Tutorial · YouTube title: I made a NES emulator in 15 minutes
Why it's here

HN programmers admire it as a clean, clever demonstration of emulator design and as the standout of a favorite programming YouTuber.

What it covers

Bisqwit writes a NES emulator in C++ in about 15 minutes of tool-assisted, sped-up coding, narrated with captions. It shows an accurate emulator built with a compile-time generated 6502 instruction table. Part 2 covers compiling and running it.