NES 6502 Emulator

Fully functional and well-tested emulator of an 8-bit 6502 processor from Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) home video game console created as a bachelor's thesis in C++

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

• Visual Studio 2019 or newer
• VSCppUnit C++ Unit Testing Framework
• Windows 7 or newer

Installing

1. Install Visual Studio
2. Clone this repository to your local drive
3. Open NES_Emulator.sln file from the root directory and you are ready to go!

Running the tests

1. Open NES_Emulator.sln file from the root directory
2. Build the whole solution
3. Open Test Explorer by pressing CTRL + E, T or going to View => Test Explorer
4. Run all tests by pressing CTRL + R, A or using a Run All Tests button.

Deployment

1. Open NES_Emulator.sln file from the root directory
2. Build NES_Core project in Release mode
3. Get the produced binary from \build\bin\Win32\NES_Core\NES_Core.lib

Authors

• Sebastian Kucharzyk

Acknowledgments

• Great source of information about NES - nesdev
• The very best place to see a live example of 6502 - easy6502