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z2rs

Clean-room reconstruction of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (NES) in Rust. Desktop and browser, bring your own ROM.

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GITHUB · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 32 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views

Niche: video game source ports · 479 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▼ -68% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Media & entertainment
  • Dev tools
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

No A clean-room reconstruction of a commercial NES game in Rust requires reverse engineering 6502 assembly, memory mappers, and hardware cycle timings.

What it would actually take: The project requires disassembling the original NES ROM using tools like Ghidra to reconstruct game state logic, physics, and AI from 6502 assembly into idiomatic Rust. It also requires building an emulation or compatibility layer for the NES PPU and APU subsystems, compiled for desktop and WebAssembly, demanding deep retro-hardware and binary reverse-engineering expertise.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 987 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #254 of 988 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 319 days after the earliest competitor.

  • ounce-core · github · 2026-10-24 · 203 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • oot-pc-recomp · github · 2026-11-05 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • echora · github · 2026-11-06 · 32 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • oot-remake-modding · github · 2026-11-09 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • Zelda-on-PC · github · 2026-10-11 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • kirikae · github · 2026-10-23 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • HookLink · github · 2026-11-08 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • EoWRecomp · github · 2026-10-19 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.54

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