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RuNES
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As we know, there have been a ton of NES emulator implementations in various
kinds of languages (mostly C). All of these emulators come with different
accuracy and portability. RuNES is an attempt to build a reasonably accurate
(cycle-level accurate), light-weight and efficient emulation core library using
Rust. Unlike sprocketnes_ or pinky_, RuNES strives to provide with a clean and
minimal core library without standard library (i.e., without Box, Rc, Vectors,
etc.) that could be compiled and easily ported to embedded environments. Of
course, a minimal but usable SDL-based GUI is also provided as a demonstration
of use.

Feature
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- Core library with minimal use of the Rust core crate, and zero use of std.
- Lightweight and clean code base.
- Support standard 6502 instruction set (unofficial instruction will be
  considered in the future).
- Load/save the machine state.
- Cycle-level accuracy (in-progress).

Guidelines
==========

- Never use std in the core library.
- At the same time, avoid ``unsafe`` as much as possible, but use it at
  discretion to improve performance: remove unnecessary checks within a very
  localized context.

- Keep the core library code base minimal.

.. _sprocketnes: https://github.com/pcwalton/sprocketnes
.. _pinky: https://github.com/koute/pinky

Build the Example Emulator
==========================

::

    cargo build --examples --release    # (requires std, sdl2 and clap)