My emulator takes a path to a ROM image on the command line, among other options. I use the musl library's getopt_long function to parse the command in C. It makes me appreciate the libraries that come with newer languages like Python.
https://youtu.be/PAw478XJYWI

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🚶🏻Endless Journey: The Journey to Journeyland Starring Jimmy Journey✨

My entry for Byte Off VI

Theme:"It’s not the destination. It’s the journey."

https://theretroverse.com/product/endless-journey-the-road-to-nowhere-starring-jimmy-journey/

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Testing out the final boss of Even Goblins Fall In Love and it totally smoked my test player.

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A Mimic is a classic staple of fantasy games. You open up a chest expecting to find gold coins and instead encounter malevolent eyes and a horrid, grasping tongue.

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The PPU in my NES emulator builds a background, renders it, and interrupts the CPU at vertical blanking.
https://youtu.be/Kq-QLCrzGps

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Did you know? The e-reader has a NES emulator on it, but due to GBA limitations you have to carefully design your art with duplicate lines to make it look crisp! Sprites are actually 6x8 instead of 8x8

More detail in this blog post: https://igwgames.com/blog/2025/06/22/making-a-game-for-the-e-reader-using-nes-tools/

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In Even Goblins Fall In Love, if you need a rest and can't afford an inn, you can always go back to your mother's home to rest.

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