"""Build an iNES (.nes) NROM cartridge: 6502 PPU-init viewer + image data + CHR. Layout: 16-byte iNES header, 16K PRG-ROM (viewer at $C000, 32-byte palette at $F000, 1024-byte nametable+attributes at $F020, vectors at $FFFA), then 8K CHR-ROM (256 background tiles in pattern table 0). """ from __future__ import annotations import os import shutil import subprocess import tempfile VIEWER_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) PRG_BASE = 0xC000 PRG_SIZE = 0x4000 # 16K PAL_ADDR = 0xF000 # 32-byte palette NT_ADDR = 0xF020 # 1024-byte nametable + attribute def have_xa() -> bool: return shutil.which("xa") is not None def _assemble() -> bytes: if not have_xa(): raise RuntimeError("The 'xa' (xa65) assembler was not found (apt install xa65).") with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as td: out = os.path.join(td, "v.bin") proc = subprocess.run(["xa", "-o", out, "viewer.s"], capture_output=True, text=True, cwd=VIEWER_DIR) if proc.returncode != 0: raise RuntimeError(f"xa failed:\n{proc.stdout}{proc.stderr}") with open(out, "rb") as f: return f.read() def build_rom(palette: bytes, nametable: bytes, chr_rom: bytes) -> bytes: """palette: 32 bytes; nametable: 1024 (960 names + 64 attr); chr_rom: 8192.""" if len(palette) != 32 or len(nametable) != 1024 or len(chr_rom) != 8192: raise ValueError("bad NES data block sizes") code = _assemble() # 6502 viewer, org $C000 if len(code) > PAL_ADDR - PRG_BASE: raise RuntimeError("viewer code overruns the $F000 data area") prg = bytearray(PRG_SIZE) prg[0:len(code)] = code # start == $C000 prg[PAL_ADDR - PRG_BASE:PAL_ADDR - PRG_BASE + 32] = palette prg[NT_ADDR - PRG_BASE:NT_ADDR - PRG_BASE + 1024] = nametable # CPU vectors $FFFA/$FFFC/$FFFE all point at start ($C000) for off in (0x3FFA, 0x3FFC, 0x3FFE): prg[off] = PRG_BASE & 0xFF prg[off + 1] = PRG_BASE >> 8 header = bytes([0x4E, 0x45, 0x53, 0x1A, # "NES\x1A" 1, # 16K PRG units 1, # 8K CHR units 0x00, 0x00] + [0] * 8) # NROM (mapper 0) return header + bytes(prg) + bytes(chr_rom) def write_nes(rom: bytes, path: str) -> str: with open(path, "wb") as f: f.write(rom) return path