nes is a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator written in Rust.
Overview
Late last year I got interested in emulator development, and decided to write an NES emulator (which seems to be a common starting point).
I decided to use Rust, since I’d previously played around with it a little, but never used it for a major project. It also seemed like a good fit for an emulator due to the high performance requirements.
I also had a moonshot stretch goal of compiling the emulator to WebAssembly (wasm) and running it in the browser, which I knew would be possible with Rust.
Web Assembly
Due to the magic of wasm-pack I was able to compile the emulator core to wasm extremely quickly (after just a little refactoring), and had a fully functional web-based emulator in under a day’s work.
Here it is embedded below! This should work in Chrome and Firefox, but not IE/Edge or Safari due to their lack of support for BigUInt64Array.