NES

What Remains

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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 1 · MMC1/SxROM, 512 KB / RAM
Emulator core: FCEUmm (EmulatorJS)

About What Remains

Platform: NES
Developer: Iodine Dynamics (Arnaud Guillon, Chun Lee, Dustin Long, Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk)
Year: 2019
Genre: Adventure
Players: 1
License: Homebrew

Iodine Dynamics' 8-bit adventure about environmental issues, the manipulation of public opinion and whistleblowing, set in 1986.

You have just come home from skating when a mysterious Nintendo cartridge falls into your hands. With a friend and a cat, you find encrypted files on it and uncover a dark secret that threatens the town of Sunny Peaks. There are six stages: you explore, talk to townspeople, collect clues and play minigames, and there are several endings.

The story draws on research into how industries sowed doubt and steered public opinion in the 1980s. Iodine Dynamics is Arnaud Guillon, Chun Lee, Dustin Long, Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk; the project dates from 2018 and was released in 2019 after public playtests.

The ROM is pay what you want, including free, and runs in most emulators and on flash carts. To avoid creating more e-waste, the team made a limited run of 80 cartridges from reused hardware. The game was shown at art and media events such as Piksel and Ars Electronica.

Facts

Made by Iodine Dynamics: Arnaud Guillon, Chun Lee, Dustin Long, Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk.
A limited run of 80 cartridges was made from reused hardware.
The ROM is pay what you want, including free.
The story is set in 1986.

Cartridge

Mapper: 1 · MMC1/SxROM
PRG / CHR: 512 KB / RAM
Mirroring: Vertical
Saves: No

524,304 bytes · CRC32 8C0B332C · MD5 2868fb35bb6ccd2a0ce5dba426d6001f

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.