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Game engine using a virtual machine with a simulator and a web compiler

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Game engine with web emulator and compiler. The image is displayed on the tft using the TFT_eSPI library

https://github.com/corax89/esp8266_game_engine

The game engine has a virtual screen resolution of 128x128 pixels, 16 colors, one background layer, 32 soft sprites with collision tracking and rotation, 20kb of memory for the game and variables. The virtual machine performs approximately 900,000 operations per second at a drawing rate of 20 frames per second. Control of eight buttons.

The online compiler of the C subset to the assembler, and then to the virtual machine code.

User guide: https://corax89.github.io/esp8266Game/user_guide/index.html

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  • 1 × esp8266
  • 1 × tft 240x320 ili9341
  • 1 × PCF8574 Microprocessors, Microcontrollers, DSPs / Microprocessors (MPUs)
  • 1 × gameboy case

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RomanS wrote 06/05/2019 at 14:18 • point

Hello Igor. Could i port your engine for my ESPboy project? 

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Igor wrote 06/05/2019 at 18:21 • point

Yes. I will be happy.

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shando69 wrote 05/25/2019 at 23:57 • point

Sorry, ignore the last bit of my previous comment. I've just found the examples in the online editor :)

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shando69 wrote 05/25/2019 at 23:52 • point

Looks like an excellent project. I am about to buy an ODROID-GO and was wondering if there were any plans to expand the screen size from 128x128? The ODROID has a 320x240 screen. Also, is there any way to see the code behind some of the bin files?

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Igor wrote 05/26/2019 at 14:40 • point

I ran this firmware on esp32. However, this requires a small alteration of the code.

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mystboy666 wrote 05/10/2019 at 09:54 • point

Hi there!

Is there any plan supporting these small monochrome oled displays?

Thanks!

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Igor wrote 05/20/2019 at 14:38 • point

I did not plan this, but it is possible.

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Hendra Kusumah wrote 04/23/2019 at 06:26 • point

hi there, just try out your firmware and it work. But I use a different kind of ili9341 board and the screen got flipped upside down, is there anyway to change/flipped the screen orientation?

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Hendra Kusumah wrote 04/23/2019 at 06:29 • point

I am using this board:

https://www.tindie.com/products/thirtytwoteeth/game-boy-zero-handheld-edition/

since it is basically an ili9341 breakout without the pi zero I manage to get it running but there is the problem I mention above

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Igor wrote 04/23/2019 at 18:13 • point

In the setup () function, find tft.setRotation (1); and change to tft.setRotation (3); Or try to substitute other values from 0 to 3

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Hendra Kusumah wrote 04/24/2019 at 06:12 • point

Ok, it works. Thanks for the follow up

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l3pr3ch4un wrote 04/04/2019 at 07:34 • point

Anyone is interested in Wii nunchuck support (I didn't have any pcf8574 laying around..)? 

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Igor wrote 04/04/2019 at 16:59 • point

Here I found the instructions for connecting. This is i2c so the scheme does not change. Need to rewrite the button processing code. https://www.instructables.com/id/ESP8266-and-Visuino-WiFi-Remote-Control-Smart-Car-/

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l3pr3ch4un wrote 04/04/2019 at 18:40 • point

Yup, already done it, code can be found in:

https://github.com/mali1741/esp8266_game_engine/tree/nunchuck

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l3pr3ch4un wrote 04/03/2019 at 15:18 • point

Nice project! I've had some problems running some of the games (mars and breakout) on the esp, and found that setinterrupt in cpu.ino didn't use the stack as in cpu.js .  When I changed it to behave like in cpu.js it works fine though.

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dan wrote 04/03/2019 at 22:52 • point

Im have issues with running games on my ESP hardware also. Can you explain more in detail what you did to fix this problem.

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l3pr3ch4un wrote 04/04/2019 at 07:17 • point

I can get a github pull request out tomorrow, but until then:
in cpu.ino:setinterrupt

shadow_reg[0] = flagsToByte();
for(int8_t j = 1; j <= 15; j++){
shadow_reg[j] = reg[j];
}

should be changed to:

reg[0] -= 2;
writeInt(reg[0], flagsToByte());
for(int8_t j = 1; j <= 15; j++){
reg[0] -= 2;
writeInt(reg[0], reg[j]);
}

and the op return code 0x9A:

for(int8_t j = 15; j >= 1; j--){
reg[j] = shadow_reg[j];
}
byteToFlags(shadow_reg[0]);

should be changed accordingly:

for(int8_t j = 15; j >= 1; j--){
reg[j] = readInt(reg[0]);
reg[0] += 2;
}
byteToFlags(readInt(reg[0]));
reg[0] += 2;

Besides that there are a few cpu-instructions that handles sprites that need a limiter of the spite index ( & 31  as most of them already has).

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l3pr3ch4un wrote 04/04/2019 at 18:39 • point

The patch can now be found in:

https://github.com/mali1741/esp8266_game_engine/tree/fixvm

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Igor wrote 04/04/2019 at 17:02 • point

Strange. This should not be a problem. Interrupt handling through additional registers faster.

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l3pr3ch4un wrote 04/04/2019 at 17:44 • point

Yes, I agree. Somehow I got a full interrupt queue with the shadow reg code.

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l3pr3ch4un wrote 04/04/2019 at 21:22 • point

So I found the error, the reg and shadow_reg arrays are one element short!
int16_t reg[16];
int16_t shadow_reg[16];

should do the trick!

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Igor wrote 04/08/2019 at 06:09 • point

Thanks!

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Mr Rockgovsky wrote 04/01/2019 at 09:07 • point

I'm not sure how I'm supposed to run this thing - I uploaded the game.bin file to the esp8266,
but don't know what else should I do/how to proceed.
I've also struggled to hook everything up properly, and I'm not sure if I've done everything correctly. Could you provide a more detalied schematic? Thanks in advance, very nice work!

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amera64 wrote 03/19/2019 at 06:04 • point

I have everything hooked up and firmware loaded but can't figure out how to load the .bin file into the Esp8266.  Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks

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Igor wrote 03/21/2019 at 19:42 • point

https://github.com/esp8266/arduino-esp8266fs-plugin

All uploaded files must be in the data folder.

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tormozedison wrote 03/12/2019 at 20:17 • point

Cool! A project with open source firmware, but top secret circuit diagram. Why?

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Igor wrote 03/15/2019 at 13:00 • point

Nothing secret. Just a screen on spi and a keyboard on i2c

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tormozedison wrote 03/15/2019 at 21:04 • point

Thanks. Take a look at this review:

https://habr.com/ru/post/443918

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