# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/sanghoonio/nes-tetris>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/sanghoonio/nes-tetris/blob/844861bacb2eba62263de146ffeece6c5e8a5e11/tetris-rs/workers/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/nes-tetris-rust-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/nes-tetris-rust-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/nes-tetris-rust-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/sanghoonio/nes-tetris/blob/844861bacb2eba62263de146ffeece6c5e8a5e11/tetris-rs/workers/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/sanghoonio/nes-tetris/blob/844861bacb2eba62263de146ffeece6c5e8a5e11/README.md>

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