Running .NET on the NES
summary
Builds a pipeline that compiles C# to MSIL then transpiles MSIL to 6502 assembly via a custom MSIL-to-6502 transpiler hooked into MSBuild, emits a valid 512 KB NES .nes image and launches an emulator. Uses System.Reflection.Metadata, a copied NES lib API (about 44 C functions), and 8bitworkshop.com for disassembly and testing. Demos show Hello World and sprite tinting running in an emulator and ROMs that can be flashed, with most samples working but no GC, limited method support and four unknown bytes recently resolved.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:54Overview
- 3:34Why
- 4:59Creating the project
- 9:02My thought process
- 10:15General pipeline
- 11:16Compilers
- 14:16Code
- 17:02Thought Process
- 24:11Writing the ROM
- 29:46MsBuild
- 34:45Disassembly
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