NES

BSides Cape Town 2016

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Emulator

Frame rate: 0 FPS
Speed: 0 %
Uptime: 0:00
Controller: Keyboard

Emulated console

CPU: Ricoh 2A03 (6502), 1.79 MHz
Memory: 2 KB RAM
Video: PPU, 256×240, 54 colors
Video memory: 2 KB VRAM
Sound: 5 channels: 2 pulse, triangle, noise, DPCM
Cartridge: Mapper 0 · NROM, 16 KB / 8 KB
Emulator core: FCEUmm (EmulatorJS)

About BSides Cape Town 2016

Platform: NES
Developer: HypnZA
Year: 2016
Genre: Puzzle, Adventure
Players: 1
License: Homebrew

HypnZA's puzzle game for a security conference challenge: each player got a .bin file, had to recognise it as an NES ROM, run it and find the clue to a Game Genie code.

You walk a hooded hacker through rooms of terminals. Each terminal shows a fake hacking screen, from a login prompt and a password lock to a kernel panic, and the last one shows the code. There is a built-in Konami code.

It was HypnZA's first game on any platform, posted to the NESdev forum on 5 December 2016. He credited dougeff's nesdoug.com tutorials and code, and the source is on GitHub as bsides2016-nes-game. In 2018 HypnZA gave a talk at BSides Cape Town on hacking and modifying the NES Classic Mini.

Facts

Posted to the NESdev forum by HypnZA on 5 December 2016.
Each participant received a unique .bin file containing the ROM.
Built with help from dougeff's nesdoug.com tutorials.
HypnZA spoke at BSides Cape Town 2018 on modifying the NES Classic Mini.

Cartridge

Mapper: 0 · NROM
PRG / CHR: 16 KB / 8 KB
Mirroring: Horizontal
Saves: No

24,592 bytes · CRC32 7616AD8B · MD5 7ee0c248008483d0f0be83b3a0266693

Keyboard controls

D-pad: ← ↑ ↓ →
A: Z
B: X
Start: Enter
Select: V

Steam Controller

D-pad: D-pad
A: A
B: B
Start: Start
Select: Select

Xbox controller

D-pad: D-pad
A: A
B: B
Start: Menu
Select: View

DualSense controller

D-pad: D-pad
A: ✕
B: ○
Start: Options
Select: Create

Keys and controller buttons can be remapped with the Controls button under the game. Save and Load keep a snapshot of the game in your browser. Steam Controller works as a gamepad through Steam Input. On phones, on-screen buttons appear.