Space Invaders Emulator

This is a emulator of the classic arcade game, Space Invaders (1978), write in Rust.

Test it: https://rodrigodd.github.io/space-invaders-emu/

Controls

• C: Insert Coin
• Z: Shoot
• Left Arrow: Move Left
• Right Arrow: Move Right
• Return: 1 Player Start
• Backspace: 2 Player Start

And for binary builds with the debug feature enable:

• Esc: Enter debugger.

Debugger

When in debug mode, you can enter commands in the terminal:

• run to exit the debug mode;
• bp <HEX ADRESS> to place a breakpoint at an address;
• runto <HEX ADRESS> to run until the given address.
• A empty line to execute one instruction.

Compile And Run

To compile and run run the command cargo run --release.

Or cargo run --release --features=debug to enable the intel 8080 debugger.

There are also some arguments you can pass:

• -debug: Start in debug mode.
• test: Run the test rom.
• -d: Dump ROM disassembly to stdout and exit.

WebAssembly

To compile to WebAssembly, you can use wasm-pack with the command:

wasm-pack build --target web --out-dir ../pkg  ./space-invaders-wasm

You can run it in a webpage by starting a http server in the root directory. You can use python for that, for example:

python -m http.server