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chip8-rs

CHIP-8 implementation in Rust, compiled to wasm. Live Demo

Features

• All CHIP-8 standard features

• Includes 90 ROMs from CHIP-8 pack

• Emulates afterglow in old phosphor screen to reduce flickering (can be turned off)

• Handles 3 implementation quirks that can be enabled:

  1. Shift quirk: opcodes 8xy6 & 8xyE shift Vy instead of Vx
  2. Load/Store register quirk: opcodes Fx55 & Fx65 won't increase I register by x + 1
  3. Sprite wrapping quirk: when parts of sprite are drawn outside of display, wrap it instead of clipping it

• Lightweight page (transfer size < 30kb, total size < 70kb)

How to Build

Install all the tools needed:

• Rust toolchain and wasm-pack
• NodeJS and yarn
• (Optional) wasm-opt from binaryen toolchain

Clone this repo and install Node packages

git clone https://github.com/faizilham/chip8-rs.git
cd chip8-rs
yarn install

Build project

yarn build

Build result will be available in dist/ directory

Keymapping

CHIP-8       PC Keyboard
1 2 3 C      1 2 3 4
4 5 6 D      Q W E R
7 8 9 E      A S D F
A 0 B F      Z X C V

Included ROMs

All included ROMs have descriptions and default quirk configuration data, taken from mir3z's chip8 project with some modification