CHIP-8 emulator for the WonderSwan (80186-compatible CPU core, 2bpp 8x8 tiles). Pronounced "chips-one", or "chips-wan".
Built using Wonderful. Licensed under the terms of the MIT license.
Requires target-wswan, wf-lua, wf-lzsa, wf-superfamiconv.
- Edit
game_list.txt to configure games.
- To add a new game, add a file to
cbin/N/ (any sub-directory N), then re-run ./compress_games.sh.
- To update graphics (
assets/): ./convert_assets.sh.
- To build the ROM:
make.
| Feature/Quirk |
Supported? |
| Standard opcodes |
✅ (except RCA 1802 execution) |
| Quirk: AND/OR/XOR flag reset |
✅ |
| Quirk: Load/store register changes I |
✅ |
| Quirk: Display wait |
- |
Note that the quirks specific to SUPER-CHIP 1.0 are not supported.
| Feature/Quirk |
Supported? |
| Scroll down (00CN) |
✅ |
| Scroll left/right (00FC, 00FB) |
- |
| Halt (00FD) |
✅ |
| Hi-resolution mode (00FE, 00FF) |
✅ |
| => Count collision rows (DXYN) |
✅ |
| Draw 16x16 sprite (DXY0) |
✅ |
| Large font (FX30) |
✅ |
| Load/store RPL user flag (FX75, FX85) |
✅ |
| Quirk: Load/store register |
Leaves I unchanged |
| Quirk: BXNN jumps |
✅ |
| Quirk: SHL/SHR uses Vx |
✅ |
| Quirk: Screen not erased on mode change |
✅ |
| Feature/Quirk |
Supported? |
| Scroll up (00DN) |
✅ |
| Load/store register (5XY2, 5XY3) |
✅ |
| Large address space (F000 NNNN) |
✅ (memory limit, see below) |
| Two-plane drawing (FN01) |
- (stub) |
| Custom audio samples (F002) |
- (stub) |
| Pitch register (FX3A) |
✅ |
| Quirk: 16-register RPL user flag load/store |
✅ |
| Quirk: Mode change clears screen |
✅ |
| Quirk: Sprite draw wrapping |
- |
| Feature/Quirk |
Supported? |
| Halt (0000) |
- |
| Quirk: DXY0 draws low-res 16x16 sprite |
- |
| Quirk: FX30 supports all hex characters |
✅ |
| Feature/Quirk |
Supported? |
| Stack size |
16 entries |
| Maximum memory size (CHIP-8/SUPER-CHIP) |
4 KB |
| Maximum memory size (XO-CHIP |
45.5 KB (64 KB expected) |