NES

Moon8

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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 7 · AxROM, 256 KB / RAM
Emulator core: FCEUmm (EmulatorJS)

About Moon8

Platform: NES
Developer: Brad Smith (rainwarrior)
Year: 2012
Genre: Rhythm
Players: 1
License: Homebrew

Brad Smith's NES cover of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon: the whole album as NES music.

All ten tracks are there, from Speak to Me to Eclipse. While a track plays, the screen shows the five sound channels at work, the track name and the time.

How to play

Controls: A plays the album straight through, B plays one track. The D-pad picks a track and switches between slow and fast, Start pauses, Select returns to the menu.

Facts

Brad Smith (rainwarrior) arranged the music in 2010 as an NES cover of Pink Floyd's 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon. He added the images and the rest of the code in 2012.
Press coverage in 2010 and 2011 noted that the arrangement uses only the standard NES sound hardware, with no expansion chips.

Cartridge

Mapper: 7 · AxROM
PRG / CHR: 256 KB / RAM
Mirroring: Horizontal
Saves: No

262,160 bytes · CRC32 3AF644B6 · MD5 653858ccf5bb9e5a5093b2345226475a

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.