Case study

NES Tetris: a Rust reconstruction checked against the original

NES Tetris rebuilds the 1989 NES game in Rust for desktop and browser play, reading graphics, music and data from a user-provided ROM. Its documented workflow translates disassembled routines into Rust and compares their calls with the original through a shadow oracle.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 2
Last commit: 2026-10-18
Language: Rust

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A user-provided NES Tetris (USA) .nes ROM is required.
Prerequisites: Rust is required; desktop builds target macOS, Linux and Windows.
Prerequisites: Linux requires sound and gamepad development packages.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{nes-tetris-rust-case,
  title = {{NES Tetris: a Rust reconstruction checked against the original}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/sanghoonio/nes-tetris}},
  url = {https://github.com/sanghoonio/nes-tetris},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/nes-tetris-rust-case/}}
}

Plain text

NES Tetris: a Rust reconstruction checked against the original. https://github.com/sanghoonio/nes-tetris (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/nes-tetris-rust-case/

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tetris-rs/workers/README.md GitHub · sanghoonio/nes-tetris · Revision 844861b
README.md GitHub · sanghoonio/nes-tetris · Revision 844861b