Rust Chip-8

Cross-platform original Chip-8 interpreter.

Installation

1. Clone the repository
2. Build from source with cargo build --release
3. The resulting binary will be in ./target/release/emulator

Usage

Point the emulator to a ROM path and it should work.

emulator ./path/to/my/ROM.ch8

For more detailed help, run emulator --help.

Custom configuration

You can see the configuration options by generating a configuration file.

emulator generate-config ./emulator-config.toml

Architecture

The codebase is split into 2 crates:

• libchip8 - core reusable Chip-8 logic
• emulator - GUI integration with libchip8 (main application)

Testing

https://github.com/Timendus/chip8-test-suite test suite was used for testing.

Test	Status
Chip-8 logo	✅
IBM logo	✅
corax+	✅
flags	✅
quirks	❌
keypad	✅
beep	❌