Duck Hunt

NES

A static recompilation of the NES Duck Hunt with nesrecomp, the author’s own framework: the ROM’s 6502 code is translated to C and compiled to native code, and the PPU, APU, and mapper are simulated by the runtime library. The mouse stands in for the Zapper: you aim with it and fire with the left button, with an optional on-screen crosshair, and the game’s light detection, with its black screen and target flash, is simulated as on the console. All three game modes (A, B, and C), duck flight, hits, scoring, the dog, and round progression work. Since 1.2.0 (October 5) it uses the cycle-accurate CPU; the latest, 1.2.1 (October 19), is for 64-bit Windows. 21 of its 42 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own Duck Hunt (World) ROM for NES, and a mouse. Plus 64-bit Windows.

How it gets to PC

Static recompilation

Console

Nintendo Entertainment System / Famicom

Architecture

6502

Author

mstan

Original studio

Nintendo R&D1

Year

1984

Stars

18

Last activity

2026-11-11 · today

Latest version

v1.2.1 · 2026-10-19

Language

C

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