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libretro/emulators/emux_chip8.yml
Abdessamad Derraz a5553def94 feat: add 10 emulator profiles (119-series batch 5)
boytacean (GB Rust, 6 boot ROMs embedded), emux_chip8 (no BIOS),
fake08 (PICO-8, Lua runtime compiled in), jaxe (CHIP-8, fonts hardcoded),
lowresnx (fantasy console), opentyrian (Tyrian freeware data),
openlara (Tomb Raider engine, game data), squirreljme (J2ME, 8 JARs),
vitaquake2 (Quake 2, 4 variants), xrick (data.zip sound pack)

145 total profiles.
2026-03-18 05:20:05 +01:00

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emulator: "emux (CHIP-8)"
type: libretro
source: "https://github.com/libretro/emux"
cores:
- emux_chip8
systems:
- chip8
notes: |
emux is a multi-system emulator supporting CHIP-8, Game Boy, NES, and
Sega Master System as separate libretro cores. The CHIP-8 core
(emux_chip8) does not require any external BIOS or firmware files.
The CHIP-8 architecture has no real BIOS. The standard font/character
set (hex digits 0-F, 5 bytes each = 80 bytes) is hardcoded in
mach/chip8.c:40-57 as the char_mem[] array. On reset, this font data
is copied into the beginning of the 4 KB RAM (address 0x000-0x04F)
via memcpy in chip8_reset() at mach/chip8.c:105.
ROM loading: the game ROM is loaded via file_open(PATH_DATA, ...) in
chip8_init() at mach/chip8.c:68-74. On reset, ROM contents are copied
into RAM starting at address 0x200 (mach/chip8.c:113). The core
accepts .ch8, .bin, and .rom extensions (libretro/Makefile.rules:20).
Memory map from mach/chip8.c:17-20:
0x000-0x04F font/character data (hardcoded)
0x050-0x1FF unused
0x200-0xFFF program ROM + working RAM
The libretro frontend retrieves the system directory via
RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_GET_SYSTEM_DIRECTORY (libretro/libretro.c:34) but
only uses it as a general config path, not for BIOS loading.
files: []
platform_details:
bios_mapping:
target: "none"
source_ref: "mach/chip8.c:40-57, mach/chip8.c:98-115"
notes: |
No external BIOS. The 80-byte character font is compiled into the
binary as char_mem[] and memcpy'd into RAM[0x000] on every reset.
This is standard CHIP-8 behavior -- all interpreters embed the font.