Rust NES

Open-source Rust projects categorized as NES

The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit third-generation home video game console produced by Nintendo.

Top 13 Rust NES Projects

  1. potatis

    🥔 MOS-6502 and NES emulator in Rust (SDL/WebAssembly/Android/Embedded/Cloud)

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  3. plastic

    NES emulator in rust with egui and TUI (by Amjad50)

  4. nestur

    The NES (emulator) you left outside in the rain but let dry and still kind of works

  5. tetanes

    A cross-platform NES emulator written in Rust using wgpu

  6. nes-bundler

    Transform your NES-game into a single executable targeting your favourite OS!

  7. Fearless-NES

    A NES emulator written in Rust

  8. imnes-emulator

    A Desktop NES Emulator built using Rust and ImGui

  9. nestadia

    A cloud NES emulator written in Rust. Originally written for NorthSec CTF 2021.

  10. rusty-nes

    A hobby NES emulator written in Rust.

  11. nes-emulator

    NES Emulator written in Rust

  12. nesty

    Rust NES Emulator (by marethyu)

  13. tetris-api

    Classic NES Tetris as a REST API, written in Rust

    Project mention: Show HN: Classic NES Tetris as a REST API, Written in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-09
  14. nes-rs

    NES emulator written in Rust

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source NES projects in Rust? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 potatis 671
2 plastic 582
3 nestur 545
4 tetanes 251
5 nes-bundler 165
6 Fearless-NES 119
7 imnes-emulator 38
8 nestadia 23
9 rusty-nes 15
10 nes-emulator 10
11 nesty 6
12 tetris-api 5
13 nes-rs 3

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