Case study

Casiolator: reimplementing Casio PV-1000, PV-2000 and Loopy consoles

Casiolator emulates the Casio PV-1000, PV-2000 and Loopy cartridge consoles using its own Z80, SH-1, video and sound implementations. The project draws on hardware documentation and records original Loopy ROM and sound-chip findings; users provide cartridge dumps, BIOS ROMs and, for Loopy music, a sample ROM.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06

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Last commit: 2026-11-01
Language: C
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Requires user-supplied game dumps; Loopy and PV-2000 also require BIOS ROMs, and Loopy music requires a sample ROM.
Prerequisites: Building the graphical frontend requires C99 and SDL2.
Limits: PV-2000 BASIC keyboard and cassette support, and Loopy printer and mouse support, are absent.
License: MIT license.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{casiolator-case,
  title = {{Casiolator: reimplementing Casio PV-1000, PV-2000 and Loopy consoles}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/vs-sr-dev/casiolator}},
  url = {https://github.com/vs-sr-dev/casiolator},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/casiolator-case/}}
}

Plain text

Casiolator: reimplementing Casio PV-1000, PV-2000 and Loopy consoles. https://github.com/vs-sr-dev/casiolator (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/casiolator-case/

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README.md GitHub · vs-sr-dev/casiolator · Revision 36ea3cb
THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md GitHub · vs-sr-dev/casiolator · Revision 36ea3cb
docs/little-romance.md GitHub · vs-sr-dev/casiolator · Revision 36ea3cb