Projects

A list of NES projects. Feel free to add to this list.

Creating articles for individual games and projects is discouraged. Please link to a thread or an official page instead. You may also create a wiki page in your User space to use as an official page.

If a project is in-progress, wait until it is finished before adding it. Otherwise you may use a forum thread, or a user-space page on this wiki to document your personal progress.

Many older projects were written for emulators of their time, and may not run correctly on modern emulators or real hardware.

Games

Game	Date	Author	Genre	Notes
2-in-1 Geminim/Siamond	2008-06-25	Sivak	Puzzle	2 games based on Nim and Simon.
Alter Ego	2011-12-16	shiru	Puzzle	Puzzle game about a character that can swap places. Source code.
Attribute Zone	2014-02-13	zzo38	Puzzle	Puzzle game involving Famicom PPU limiations. Source code.
Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril	2010-02-22	Sivak	Platform	Difficult jump-and-shoot platformer with open world exploration.
Battle Kid 2: Mountain of Torment	2012-12-05	Sivak	Platform	Difficult jump-and-shoot platformer with open world exploration.
BKG Graphics Test	2003-07-23	Beneficii	Puzzle	A simple maze, with map editor. Source code.
Bomber 4K	2003-09-11	RoboNes	Action	Perilously fly over 3 cities and destroy each one with bombs to win. 2003 MiniGame Compo entry (4KB category), 31st of 37. Source code.
BombSweeper	2002-04-01	SnowBro	Action	A clone of a Nintendo “Game & Watch” puzzle game of the same name.
BoxBoy	2003-09-25	Neil Tew	Action	Control 4 characters to arrange the boxes before they drop. 2003 MiniGame Compo (4KB category), 9th of 37. Source code.
Chase	2012-01-04	shiru	Action	Simple maze chase game as part of an NES C programming tutorial. Source code.
Chess	2002-04-07	Matrixz	Puzzle	Chess v0.0 beta. Use old emulator. Source code.
Concentration Room	2010-07-08	Damian Yerrick	Puzzle	Card matching game.
D-Pad Hero	2009-02-04	D-Pad Hero Team	Rhythm	A NES version of Guitar Hero by Kent Hansen (SnowBro) and Andreas Pedersen.
The Duel	1999-04-17	Bokudono	Action	A small game that pits Mario against a jumping goomba in a fight to the finish. Source code. (Comments are in spanish)
Escape from Pong	2003-09-10	Halley’s Comet Software	Action	You play a ping pong ball trying to escape from 12 paddle and obstacle-filled levels. 2003 MiniGame Compo entry (1KB category), 12th of 26. Source code.
Elite	1997-08-10	Ian Bell	Action	3D space flight game by Ian Bell and David Braben. There never was an NTSC release of this game, but later hack was released which allowed it to run on an emulator (with the right settings). Won’t work on a real NES or accurate emulator. (ROM mirror)
Famicom Hangman	2012-09-30	zzo38	Puzzle	Word guessing game. Source code.
Fighter F-8000	2008-03-10	Kalle Suikola	Shooter	Vertical airplane shooter. Texts in Finnish. Source code.
Froggy	2002-09-15	Rob	Action	A 1Kbyte Frogger clone. Released at 2002 MiniGame Compo. Finished 55th out of 62.
Galaxy Patrol	2003-07-16	Michael Martin	Action	Fly a plane to avoid obstacles and collect fuel. 2003 MiniGame Compo entry (4KB category), 36th of 37. Source code.
Galaxy Patrol Enhanced	2003-11-22	Michael Martin	Action	Fly a plane to avoid obstacles and collect fuel.
Haunted: Halloween ‘85	2016-10-30	Retrotainment Games	Action	Side scrolling beat-em-up.
Hot Seat Harry	2002-09-08	Memblers	Action	Press the A button as fast you can to shock your opponent. Released at 2002 MiniGame Compo. 1KB category. Finished 52nd out of 62.
JunkROM	1998-03-27	Tony Young	Action	Navigate a maze. Use old emulator. Source code.
Lan Master	2011-06-09	shiru	Puzzle	Routing puzzle game. Source code.
Lawn Mower	2011-06-30	shiru	Action	Lawn mowing game. Source code.
Manhole	2002-11-05	KZ-S	Action	LCD style game making sure a character has a place to walk. Program by KZ-S, Graphics by misaki, special thanks to Norix.
Masmix / Matrix	2002-07-22	Wojciech Andralojc	Action	Collect blocks and avoid swords. v0.6 beta. Code by Wojciech Andralojc, sprites by Kamil Chlodnicki, levels by Monika Subocz.
Mouser	1998-04-01	Tony Young	Action	Collect cheese as mouse speeds up. Use old emulator. Source code.
Munchie Attack	2003-09-28	Memblers	Action	Eat all the food that you can, while avoiding the deadly shuriken. Inspired by ‘Fast Food’ on the 2600 VCS. 2003 MiniGame Compo entry (4KB category), 26th of 37. Source code.
Mystic Pillars	2008-11-25	Sivak	Puzzle	Columns clone.
NESert Golfing	2019-01-31	rainwarrior	Sports	2D golf game based on Desert Golfing. Source code.
Nomolos	2010-08-16	Gradual Games	Platform	Side scrolling platformer.
Nova the Squirrel	2018-06-03	NovaSquirrel	Platform	Platformer with puzzle elements. Source code.
Pong	2001-02-20	Paul Talbot	Action	Pong clone. Source code.
RHDE	2014-07-19	Damian Yerrick	Action	Fort building game inspired by Rampart.
Russian Roulette	2014-08-17	Damian Yerrick	Chance	A game using the Zapper’s trigger. Source code.
Sack of Flour, Heart of Gold	2003-02-19	Bob Rost	Platform	Version 1d by Bob Rost, Matt Longnecker, Andrew Klein, Mark Hall, Mike Raisman, and Mark Stehlik.
Sokoban	2000-11-07	Johannes Holmberg	Puzzle	Port of Sokoban for NES. Use old emulator.
Solar Wars	2001-04-19	Chris Covell	Strategy	A freeware Scorched Earth type of game. Code, graphics, and design by Chris Covell, music by Memblers, and sound code by Bananmos. Source code.
Super Bat Puncher	2011-05-31	Morphcat Games	Platform	Platformer with multi-directional scrolling.
Super NeSnake 2	2008-05-31	MatrixZ	Action	Nibbles clone.
Super PakPak	2010-07-28	fuzb	Action	Spacewar!/Thrust/Gravity force style game.
Thwaite	2011-12-08	Damian Yerrick	Action	Missile Command style game. Source code.
ZapPing	2011-09-18	Damian Yerrick	Action	A table tennis game for one or two players using two zappers. Part of Zap Ruder test ROM. Source code.
Zooming Secretary	2011-12-29	shiru	Action	Move around the office space trying to answer phones and deliver information quickly. Source code.
Zero Pong	2001-03-29	Zero-Soul	Action	Pong with double-sided paddles. v3.0 by Zero-Soul. Source code.

Compilations

Action 53 - NESDev homebrew compilation series
Minigame 2003 compo multicart. Compilation/menu by Memblers, music covered from C64 Wizardry, sound code by Bananmos, FilePack code by Mickael Pointier. Games: BoxBoy, Escape from Pong, Munchie Attack, Bomber 4k, Galaxy Patrol (2003-11-21)

Unfinished Projects

These games were under development for some time, but may have been abandoned.

Game	Last Update	Author	Genre	Notes
Apex	2013-10-15	Retrometheus	Platform	Side-scrolling adventure/exploration game.
Elemental Solitaire	2012-09-14	zzo38	Puzzle	Card game.
Fire Below/Stars Above	2011-04-07	Cartlemmy	Platform	Platform puzzle adventure.
Mega Man 9 proof of concept	2010-06-16	Banshaku	Platform	Mega Man 9 NES port.
President	2012-08-23	Damian Yerrick	Platform	Super Mario Bros. style side-scroller engine.
Project P	2011-06-03	Miau	Platform
Ramses Game	2011-01-09	MetalSlime	Action	Based on Dragon Quest 5 minigame Slime Smack.

Demos

Demo	Date	Author	Type	Notes
Game Genie	1990-05-08	Codemasters	Tool	A dump of the ROM used in the Game Genie. Galoob has kindly given permission for free distribution.
Tank Demo	1992-01-30	Ian Bell	Graphics	A demo of an unfinished 3D tank game, using the pseudo-bitmap graphics engine from Elite. Source and information here.
Colour bar program	1998-10-03	Mark Knibbs	Graphics	Displays color bars. Source code.
Palette Test	1999-03-18	Loopy	Graphics	Displays all the colors on the screen at once. NESASM source code.
Scroll demo	1999-12-15	HollowOne11	Graphics	Horizontal scrolling demo. Dissassembled and modified from Ultima 2. Use old emulator. Source code.
Jumpy demo	2001-09-23	‘Rwin	Simple	A jumping sprite demo. NESASM source code.
Overtest	2001-10-19	Alastair Bridgewater	Test	Tests the CPU’s overflow flag. Source code.
Diffusion Chamber	2002-04-16	Michael Martin	Graphics	Simulation of gas diffusion. P65 source code.
NEStress	2002-07-31	Flubba	Test	NES emulator test demo. Source code.
TANESPOT	2003-01-27	Jonathan Liss	Multimedia	“A Tribute to All NES Players Out There”, PAL NES demo (Swedish), placed 3rd of 4 in the Oldskool demo category of Dreamhack 2002.
Raster Demo	2003-02-18	Norix	Graphics	Spinning VirtuaNES logo raster effect with falling leaves.
NESmas	2003-11-29	Mic	Multimedia	A small christmas greeting demo with music. Use old emulator. Source code.
NES Scrolling Test	2004-01-09	Lasse Öörni (Cadaver)	Graphics	Multidirectional scrolling test program, also detects PAL/NTSC. Uses MMC1 mapper + one screen mirroring. Source code.
Deadline Console 2004	2004-05-10	Opius, Nullsleep	Multimedia	Invitation intro with animation and music. deadline
GrayBox	2008-07-09	Sean Kelly	Unknown	Tribute to NES’ 25th birthday. (thread, video)
Deadfish	2013-06-08	zzo38	Tool	Deadfish programming language interpreter, for Family BASIC Keyboard. Source code.
Zelda title screen simulator	1998-07-23	Chris Covell	Graphics	Duplicates The Legend of Zelda title screen. Source code.
Amiga! logo	1998-07-23	Chris Covell	Graphics	Displays the Amiga logo. Source code.
Colour test program	1998-07-23	Chris Covell	Test	Set the hue and luminance values and see the NES color. Source code.
Palette test program	1998-07-23	Chris Covell	Test	Palette test. Source code.
Game Genie decoder	1998-07-25	Chris Covell	Simple	A useful program for converting GG codes to CPU and ROM hex values. Source code.
Interlacing demo	1998-08-02	Chris Covell	Graphics	3 demos showing effects with alternating frames, and one more shows dithering. Source code.
MacOS	1999-04-16	Chris Covell	Graphics	A demonsrtation of bitmapped graphics on NES (an image that looks like a Mac OS desktop). Source code.
Atomic	1999-04-19	Chris Covell	Graphics	Shows a neat pic, and cycles through some palettes. Source code.
Moby	1999-04-22	Chris Covell	Graphics	Shows the cover of Moby: Everything is Wrong in a buggy alternating-frames mode. Source code.
Stars SE	1999-07-05	Chris Covell	Multimedia	An intro with a Martin Galway tune done on the NES by Memblers. The sound code was written by Bananmos. Source code.
Wavy	1999-10-16	Chris Covell	Graphics	CMC logo with scrolling effects and palette cycling. Source code.
Wall	1999-10-21	Chris Covell	Graphics	A demo that shows a wall with transparent water and ripples. Source code.
Mega Man jet	1999-11-19	Chris Covell	Graphics	A picture of Megaman flying above some clouds with palette animation. Source code.
Polar demos	2000-04-03	Chris Covell	Graphics	Some demos that rotate and expand sprites. Source code.
CMC'80s	2000-06-14	Chris Covell	Multimedia	Animated demo. The music isn’t original, as it was ripped from the game “Magician”.
Full Screen demos	2000-07-12	Chris Covell	Graphics	4 demos that show full-screen graphics blending alternate frames for increased color depth. Source code.
Super Fighter demo	2000-09-04	Chris Covell	Multimedia	A 1-screen demo related to Super Fighter. Code by Chis Covell, music covered by Memblers (original by Young Soung Wing), and sound code by Bananmos.
Motion	2001-01-15	Chris Covell	Graphics	Some demos that do low resolution full screen animation. Source code.
Stretch demo	2001-04-03	Chris Covell	Graphics	A vertical scaling demo showing waving graphics. Source code.
Raster Bar demos	2001-04-11	Chris Covell	Graphics	Some raster demos showing waving graphics. Source code.
Sayoonara	2001-10-12	Chris Covell	Multimedia	A nice demo, with “something extra”. Ripped music.
FDS Test	2002-10-23	Chris Covell	Multimedia	2 FDS programs, a music player displaying the FDS Wave-RAM, and an FDS port of the Stars SE demo.
FDS Disk Lister	2002-11-05	Chris Covell	Test	FDS program that lists its own disk contents. Source code.
Snow Intro	1999-06-06	Tennessee Carmel-Veilleux	Multimedia	Code by Repulse (Tennessee Carmel-Veilleux), graphics by _Bnu, and music by Random, which was re-done for the NES by Memblers. The music code was written by Bananmos.
Power Pad Test Program	1999-10-14	Tennessee Carmel-Veilleux	Test	Power Pad test program. No source.
Halloween Intro	1999-10-31	Memblers	Multimedia	A small program for Halloween. Doesn’t do much. Code/graphics/music by Memblers, sound code by Bananmos.
NES Test Program v1.3	1999-11-29	Memblers	Test	Write to any register/RAM location with this program.
RTC	2001-02-28	Memblers	Multimedia	A demo entered into the Y2Kode programming competition, recieved 2nd place out of 6 entries. This version is buggy and not recommended for a real NES.
Megaman X Sprite	2000-05-27	abonetochew	Graphics	Displays a Megaman sprite from the SNES game, Megaman X. Kinda buggy. Source code.
Blocks	2002-06-30	abonetochew	Graphics	Displays the Super Mario Bros. 1-1 background with scrolling. Source code.
Bill World	2002-09-08	abonetochew	Graphics	Displays a level background for a game. Source code.
Sprite 0 test	2000-06-12	Damian Yerrick	Test	A “sprite 0 hit” compatability test for emulators. Source code.
GNOME vs. KDE	2000-07-08	Damian Yerrick	Multimedia	An unfinished 2-player Bingo style game. Music by Tony Young covered by Damian Yerrick, sound code by Bananmos. Source code.
Who’s Cuter?	2000-08-14	Damian Yerrick	Graphics	“Take the survey and report the results.” A slideshow of graphics. Source code.
Tall Pixel	2009-12-09	Damian Yerrick	Graphics	Stretches a still background image to 150% of its vertical size. Source code.
DPCM Split	2010-06-22	Damian Yerrick	Graphics	Shows how to abuse APU DMC timers to create a more-or-less reliable scroll split. Source code.
DPCM Letterbox	2010-08-16	Damian Yerrick	Graphics	Uses APU DMC timers that hides the background outside a 256x160 pixel window, uses NMI thread for ease of use. Source code.
Password save demo	2010-07-20	Damian Yerrick	Simple	Allows the NES to remember 32 bits of a game’s state across a power cycle. Source code.
Sprite Cans 2011	2011-04-23	Damian Yerrick	Multimedia	A demo that displays 64 rotating soda cans. Music by Ray Lynch covered by Damian Yerrick. Source code.
Zap Ruder	2011-09-18	Damian Yerrick	Test	Demonstrates how to read the Zapper’s photosensor. It includes several still test patterns and ZapPing game. Source code.
Eighty	2014-04-25	Damian Yerrick	Test	Test program for the Four Score, including signature detection and compensation for DMC DMA bit deletions. Source code.
little things	2022-10-17	Damian Yerrick	Compilation	A collection of Damian Yerrick’s early and one-off NES works. Source code.
Boing	2001-02-18	Mankeli (HNO3)	Graphics	Sprites animating with a curved path. Source code.
City	2001-05-08	Mankeli (HNO3), Zonzki	Multimedia	City background demo with music and animated text. Sound engine by Bananmos.
GITS	2002-01-20	Sergey Ryumik	Test	Television quality test program. Also available: Russian version with extended information.
GITS2	2002-10-06	Sergey Ryumik	Test	PAL TV test program.
demo	2002-10-07	Siudym	Graphics	Displays peace symbol. Made with a hex editor.
Commando	2008-10-07	Siudym	Simple	Movable sprite.
Scanline.NES	2003-06-13	Quietust	Test	Original version of a test of emulator PPU accuracy (note that in this version, the final test’s text should NOT be readable). Updated version: here.
The Tao of 007	2004-06-29	Quietust	Multimedia	“Official game of the defunct Project: Sachen.” Graphical demo with random voice samples. Source code.
SMW Stomper	2004-07-04	Quietust	Graphics	A demonstration of mid-frame vertical scroll adjustment, showing the Super Mario World castle “stomper”. Source code.
Copper Bars	2004-07-05	Quietust	Graphics	Copper bars demo. Source code.
ppu_off_colors2	2005-07-14	Blargg	Graphics	Displays horizontal and vertical rainbow palette effects with PPU rendering disabled. Source code.
Full palette demo	2006-03-11	Blargg	Graphics	Displays entire 400+ color NES palette with minimal pixel glitches. Source code. (thread)
Hello, NES!	2025-06-18	~~DigitalDetective47~~	Simple	A simple Hello, world! program for the NES.

Music and Sound

Albums

Music albums in NES ROM form.

Album	Date	Author	Notes
Years Behind	2003-08-30	Retrocoders	This music rom features covers and original music. Compatible with PAL NES only.
Vegavox (ROM unavailable)	2007-05-23	NO CARRIER, Alex Mauer	Forum thread.
Vegavox II (ROM unavailable)	2009-05-17	NO CARRIER, Alex Mauer
Embered Recollections	2009-06-02	Heosphoros, miau, KeFF
Teletime	2010-01-07	NO CARRIER, Animal Style	Bandcamp page.
MOON8	2012-07-20	rainwarrior	Cover of Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd.
NOFX Cover Cart Vol. 1	2012-09-25	HeavyW8bit	Chipmusic.org thread.
DENDYcompo II	2014-02-09	8081netlabel, Rubel	Chipmusic.org thread.

Sound Demos

Sound and music demos, tools and toys.

ROM	Date	Author	Notes
cajoNES	2013-03-12	Neil Baldwin	NES drum machine with random generation options.
DMC-Based Saw Waves	2003-12-07	Blargg	Using DPCM samples and IRQ to generate a saw wave channel. Source code.
Dropoff 7	2000-08-15	Memblers	The story of Dropoff 7, played through the NES’s Delta-modulation channel.
GZS	2002-09-16	Sergey Ryumik	Generator of sound signals.
Fade to Black	1998-06-13	Fredrik Schultz, Morgan Johansson	It’s a picture of Metallica with a cover of ‘Fade to Black’. By authors of A/NES.
Linus	1999-03-22	Kevin Horton	Prototype demonstration of NSF music format.
NES Sound Test	2000-04-27	Lasse Öörni (Cadaver)	Music code. Plays the Goldrunner song.
NESA player	1998-09-01	Chris Covell	Audio ripping format demonstration. NESA (NES/Audio) is a logged audio format recorded by an emulator on Amiga called A/NES. Made mostly obsolete by the NSF format.
NTRQ	2011-05-14	Neil Baldwin	NES native music tracker.
Paranoiz	2005-03-12	nurv	A noise channel editor.
PR8	2012-02-06	Neil Baldwin	NES drum machine.
Pulsar	2012-12-10	Neil Baldwin	NES native music tracker in LSDJ style.
Sound testing program	1999-01-02	SnowBro	It lets you toggle the bits of the sound registers. Source code.
SMMM	2012-09-20	Neil Baldwin	Super Magic Music Maker, music generation toy.
Visual Player	1999-10-19	Memblers	Shows some sprites to go along with the Silver Surfer NSF rip, with music by Tim and Geoff Follin. Source code. (Author may have newer version?)

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