Qwen Model Runs a Working NES Game Emulator
Developer Drew Breunig built a working emulator for the classic Nintendo Entertainment System inside the weights of a small AI model, Qwen3.5-4B. Users can now play NES games such as Super Mario Bros, though it runs very slowly. The project was inspired by an earlier, similar experiment.
Quick glossarySimon Willison's Weblog, emulator, weights
- Simon Willison's Weblog
- A popular personal blog by developer Simon Willison that covers AI tools and trends.
- emulator
- Software that copies another machine's behaviour so that programs made for it can run on a different device.
- weights
- The learned numbers stored inside an AI model that decide how it thinks and responds to what people type.
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