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chadsikorra/php-terminal-nes-emulator
=====================================

A PHP terminal NES emulator

1.0.0(5y ago)033MITPHPPHP &gt;=8.0

Since Nov 11Pushed 5y agoCompare

[ Source](https://github.com/ChadSikorra/php-terminal-nes-emulator)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/chadsikorra/php-terminal-nes-emulator)[ Docs](http://github.com/hasegawa-tomoki/php-terminal-nes-emulator)[ RSS](/packages/chadsikorra-php-terminal-nes-emulator/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced yesterday

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An NES emulator written in PHP

[![demo](https://github.com/hasegawa-tomoki/php-terminal-nes-emulator/raw/master/demo.gif)](https://github.com/hasegawa-tomoki/php-terminal-nes-emulator/blob/master/demo.gif)

Based on [bokuweb/flownes](https://github.com/bokuweb/flownes), [gabrielrcouto/php-terminal-gameboy-emulator](https://github.com/gabrielrcouto/php-terminal-gameboy-emulator).

Blog entry:  (Japanese)

Requirements
============

[](#requirements)

- PHP &gt;= 8.0
- Composer

Install
=======

[](#install)

```
$ git clone https://github.com/hasegawa-tomoki/php-terminal-nes-emulator.git
$ cd php-terminal-nes-emulator
$ composer install

```

[No composer?](https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#locally)

Run
===

[](#run)

```
$ bin/nes romfile.nes

```

Compatible with mapper 0 rom files.

If you want to see colorful pictures, run with '-cpng' option.

```
$ php boot.php some.nes -cpng

```

You can see beautiful screenshots in `./screen` directory.

Controls
========

[](#controls)

```
  [W]
[A] [F]        [,] [.]
  [D]   [N] [M]

```

License
=======

[](#license)

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2018 @hasegawa-tomoki ( @tomzoh )

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Legal
=====

[](#legal)

The purpose of this project was to study all the capabilities of PHP.

It does not have any commercial or profitable intentions.

The user is responsible to use this code and its content in the terms of the law.

The author is completely against piracy and respects all the copyrights, trademarks and patents of Nintendo.

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 60% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity68

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 63.4% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

1873d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/388229?v=4)[Chad Sikorra](/maintainers/ChadSikorra)[@ChadSikorra](https://github.com/ChadSikorra)

---

Top Contributors

[![ChadSikorra](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/388229?v=4)](https://github.com/ChadSikorra "ChadSikorra (52 commits)")[![hasegawa-tomoki](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3850359?v=4)](https://github.com/hasegawa-tomoki "hasegawa-tomoki (17 commits)")[![sj-i](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6488121?v=4)](https://github.com/sj-i "sj-i (13 commits)")

---

Tags

phpconsoleterminalemulatornes

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Code StylePHP CS Fixer

Type Coverage Yes

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