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MinecraftNES

A NES emulator built entirely from vanilla Minecraft resource-pack shaders.

What it does

Emulates the NES inside unmodified Minecraft Java 1.16 using only resource-pack shader programs, with the ROM converted into a texture. It supports mapper 0 and mapper 2 games and includes a TAS input mode.

How it works

NES emulator implemented in core shader programs of a vanilla resource pack

Requirements & limitations

Minecraft Java 1.16.x with Fabulous graphics, and a mapper 0 or mapper 2 NES ROM converted with the repository's ROM.py into the pack's ROM texture.

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Evidence limits

The GitHub README and 1.0.0 release (Basic and Advanced resource-pack zips, 2020-09-22) were reviewed on 2026-10-09; no licence file is present. No independent catalogue play-test was performed.

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