chip-8
A collection of CHIP-8 programs and documentation (by mattmikolay)
chip8-test-suite
A collection of ROM images with tests that will aid you in developing your own CHIP-8, SUPER-CHIP or XO-CHIP interpreter (or "emulator") (by Timendus)
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| 10.0 | 7.3 | |
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| Roff | Roff | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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chip-8
Posts with mentions or reviews of chip-8.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-04.
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Cowgod's Chip-8 Technical Reference
For anyone looking to write a CHIP-8 emulator, Matt Mikolay's writeup is less ambiguous:
https://github.com/mattmikolay/chip-8/wiki/CHIP%E2%80%908-Te...
If you want to target the original Cosmac VIP behavior, corax89's test ROM is good:
https://github.com/corax89/chip8-test-rom
chip8-test-suite
Posts with mentions or reviews of chip8-test-suite.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-08.
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Show HN: Fortran Chip-8 Interpreter
This is my first emulator. It is still missing a few bells and whistles like the sound timer, but otherwise it passes the basic tests from Timendus (https://github.com/Timendus/chip8-test-suite). I've also been thinking about making a Fortran dialect suitable for CHIP-8 (https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-chip-8-interp...).
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Beginner, intermediate, and advanced c programming projects
Here is a reddit threadfor documentation resources and apparently the r/EmuDev discord has even more. Personally i used wikipedia and youtube to understand what it was & what it should look like (i remember still not getting it at first) and then Cowgod's Chip-8 Technical Reference as main reference for implementing the Instructions and overall architecture (beware that some instructions are missing key details about flag updating and other stuff another source will need to be used). Then the Chip8-test-suite by Tim Franssen was a godsend for the debugging phase. (you can go to Octo and try out some Chip8 games first if you want) also download some game-roms for testing.
- CHIP-8 test suite v4.1 released
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Chip 9 (impossible opcodes?)
Oh and with "test ROMs" I didn't mean "test with more ROMs", but use ROMs that are actually meant for testing 😉 See for example https://github.com/Timendus/chip8-test-suite
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CHIP-8 Emulator in Golang and WebAssembly
The emulator still has issues but it is largely usable. It passes most of the tests in test ROMs that I have found, in particular the ones here. It also has a simple debugger that actually helped me find issues in my implementation.
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Weird Horizontal Offset In My Chip-8 Emulator Display
thanks alot man! i'll now run the roms in chip8-test-suite...
- CHIP-8 test suite version 4.0 is out
- CHIP-8 test suite version 4.0 has just been released!
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[Chip8] Screen gets wacky after splash screen
If you're at this point in the chip8 process, you may be able to run something like https://github.com/Timendus/chip8-test-suite to identify some common issues such as forgetting to set a flag or doing arithmetic operations slightly wrong. Maybe one of these common issues is the culprit.
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Chip8 test ROM showing not showing correct things.
I'd recommend trying this test ROM instead: https://github.com/Timendus/chip8-test-suite
What are some alternatives?
When comparing chip-8 and chip8-test-suite you can also consider the following projects:
chip8-test-rom - ROM for testing chip8 emulator
chip-8 - A Chip-8 emulator written in Kotlin
Octo - A Chip8 IDE
viper - Scans of the VIPER newsletter
DEBUG8 - CHIP-8 debugger
jaxe - A fully-featured, cross platform XO-CHIP/S-CHIP/CHIP-8 emulator written in C and SDL.
chip8Archive - A repository of community-submitted Chip8 programs and their metadata
chip8 - Simple chip8 interpreter and debugger written in C++
chip8-book - An introduction to Chip-8 emulation using Rust
chip-8 - A CHIP-8 Emulator
CHIP8Emulator - Emulator for the CHIP-8 Instruction Set
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