Chip8 Emulator

This is a chip8 emulator that i wrote in C++. It's finished but not thoroughly tested, so some roms may not fully work properly (res roms/ for some tested roms that you can play).

Running Roms

Specify which rom you would like to load as a command line argument ./chip8 [rom]

If you don't specify a rom, it will default to DEFAULT_ROM

Building

On MacOS / Linux

With SDL2 installed, run make all. If you get any errors, you may have to change the LINKER_FLAGS in the else block.

This has only been tested on MacOS, so i'm not 100% sure if it works on linux, and if it doesn't it should just be a matter of changing the makefile (the build process is very simple so it shouldn't be too hard).

On Windows

MinGW is required to build on windows.

• Install MinGW if you have not already
• Install the MinGW-w64 toolchain (see this article)
• follow the install instructions for installing SDL2 for MinGW (see this article).
• in the Makefile change the windows INCLUDE_PATHS and LIBRARY_PATHS to your MinGW include and lib paths.