Pac-Man (NES)

Game: Pac-Man → (Arcade, 1980)

A native Windows version of Pac-Man for the NES (Namco’s 1993 release), made by static recompilation with NESRecomp: the original 6502 code is translated into C and compiled into a Windows program. The launcher doesn’t ship the translated game: on first run, a recompiler and TinyCC translate and compile your ROM into a game.dll on your PC and then delete those tools, so the game’s code is only ever generated on your machine. On top of the untouched game it adds a launcher with video, audio, controls, and game option settings, cheats, a documented mod system, one- and two-player games, controller rumble, high scores, and an optional update check that is off by default. The README only lists Windows 10 and 11; there is no Mac or Linux version. Version 1.1.1 (October 6) is the latest of six releases published between October 4 and October 6, about 5 MB.

You needYour own copy of Pac-Man (USA) (Namco) for the NES, as a .nes file with any name, placed next to the executable; the Tengen version is a different program and doesn’t work. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11.

How it gets to PC

Static recompilation

Console

Nintendo Entertainment System / Famicom

Architecture

6502

Author

Mr-Shizzy

Original studio

Namco

Year

1993

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