I made a NES emulator in 15 minutes

Why HN readers recommended it

HN programmers admire it as a clean, clever demonstration of emulator design and as the standout of a favorite programming YouTuber.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Bisqwit

Topic

emulator programming

Format

tutorial

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

9

Recommendation years in dataset

2013–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Agreed. My favourite programming YouTuber by a long stretch. If anyone is unfamiliar with him and wants to watch some of the "classics" I'd recommend these: His "cracking videogame passwords" series: [LINK] Creating a Doom-style 3D engine in C: [LINK] Creating a Rogue-like game in …

• [LINK] record high quality videos at many programming conferences each year and then share the recordings on YouTube. So much to enjoy here, especially if you're open source leaning, like most of the events they do. O'Reilly puts up lots of good stuff at [LINK] …

• Here's a very clean and clever NES emulator in C++ by Bisqwit of TAS fame: [VIDEO] He presents the code in the style of a tool assisted run, typing it in in high speed. I never saw templates used like that to create the unrolled …