By
@Djd871
A Chip-8 Emulator in order to emulate old retro games. This is the project i’ve decided on in order to solidify my learning of C++ thus far.
To commemorate what i’ve learnt in C++ thus far, I built a chip-8 emulator. A Chip-8 was originally a virtual machine designed to act as a beginner-friendly way to develop games for the COSMAC VIP, now in modern times, it is often used as a gateway project for both emulation and lower level programming languages. Overall, i had a wonderful time and i’m super happy i made this as my first C++ project. I definitely had a hard time trying to decipher as much code as possible purely from technical references or written articles, but that’s what made me even more proud of this achievement. To see and try what i’ve made, simply follow the download guide for the pre-loaded version in the README, or by extracting the .zip file in the demo link.
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I FINISHED IT
4h 15m 13s logged
I finally finished implementing all the opcodes needed for a chip-8 emulator. It took a while and i ended up having to review some of them to mimic the behaviour of the original COSMAC VIP chip8 emualtor but it can FINALLY, play pong :) (not well but). Note: due to the refresh rate of the display which i haven’t fully sorted out yet, you can’t see the ball but it is there.
4h 58m 48s logged
I started working on implementing the opcodes for the emulator. Thank the lord for Timendus’s chip-8 test suite. Soon enough i should be able to run an actual game on it :)
7h 39m 18s logged
Got the Display working. Ngl I completely forgot to Devlog this stuff but I ended up having credit someone else to get the loadRom function working. Afterwards it took AGES to implement and configure SDL2 but at long last… It works
2h 21m 35s logged
Trying to figure out how to read a .ch8 file (I do NOT understand what i’m doing 😭)
