Special NES emulator for playing Super Mario Bros with text-mode graphics in a terminal.
Some features:
- Heavily tied to SMB, other games may or may not work or just look plain ugly.
- SDL2 graphical output also available and can run in parallel.
- Use a joystick/gamepad (as detected by SDL2) to play.
- Keyboard input on the terminal kind of works, but it is very hard to use.
- PPU (video) emulation supports horizontal scrolling only.
- APU (audio) emulation supports pulse/triangle/noise channels, but not DMC.
- Save/Load state supported but only one slot and only in memory.
- Ctrl+C in the terminal breaks into a debugger for dumping data.
- Monochrome, 8 ANSI colors or 256 color support, depending on terminal.
- Accepts TAS input in the FM2 format.
- Famicom Disk System (FDS) support to load Super Mario Bros 2.
Screenshot from SMB1:
MARIO WORLD TIME
000000 $x00 1-1
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/v\/\|\|/\ |\|\/\/\
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c1985 NINTENDO
* 1 PLAYER GAME
2 PLAYER GAME
/\
/ .\
/ \ TOP- 000000
/ . @@ \ /\/\/\
/ @@ \ / \
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Screenshot from SMB2:
MARIO WORLD TIME
000000 $x00 1-1
/\|||\/||\
/\ \\|||/|-|<
/ \/\/| \|||
\--
/v\/\|\|/\ |\|\/\/\ /\
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c1986 NINTENDO
%%%%%%
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% %% % * MARIO GAME
% %% %
%%%%%%%%%% LUIGI GAME /\
%%%%%%%%%% ||
%%%% %%%% /\ ||
%%%% %%%% TOP- 000000\/ \/
%%%% @@%%% || ||----
%%%% @@%%% || ||----
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Information on my blog:
- lazyboNES Emulator
- lazyboNES Emulator TAS Support
- lazyboNES Emulator FDS Support
- lazyboNES Emulator Telnet Hacks
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