CHIP8 Emulator

Features

• Handles all 35 opcodes as mentioned in the CHIP8 archives.
• Renders most of the ROM's. (Excluding Super CHIP8)
• Currently running at 800 instructions per frame.
• Emulator configured to 60 FPS.

Future Works

• Plan to add sound timer for ROM's utilising the sound register.
• Making the Emulator more cocnfigurable from the terminal using args. (In terms of display size, refresh rate etc).
• Creating my very own test ROM.

Compiling and Running

• Make sure build-essentials are installed on the system sudo apt-get install build-essentials.
• make Compiles the release code provided raylib package is located on the system.
• make debug Compiles the Debug binary which has required debug output for different opcodes.
• make clean Removes the binary which is compiled and cleans up the folder.
• After compiling to run ./chip8 <Rom file name>

Screenshots

• Verifying most opcodes are working

References

• https://tobiasvl.github.io/blog/write-a-chip-8-emulator/
• https://github.com/cj1128/chip8-emulator/tree/master/rom (For BC Test aswell as testopcode ROM's)
• https://github.com/kripod/chip8-roms (Various other ROM's for testing the Emulator)