kintsuki 0.0.0a0

SNES emulator wheel for scripted testing and tracing, built on a stripped-down ares Super Famicom core.

kintsuki

SNES emulator wheel built on a stripped-down ares Super Famicom core via a thin C ABI. Aimed at scripted testing and instruction tracing.

import kintsuki

emu = kintsuki.Emu()
emu.load_rom("game.sfc")
emu.run_frames(60)
print(f"$7E1700 = {emu.read(0x7E1700):#04x}")
emu.screenshot("frame.png")

Build

This package ships libkintsuki.dylib (macOS) / .so (Linux) / .dll (Windows) in src/kintsuki/_lib/. Rebuild from source:

cmake -S ../ares -B ../build -G Ninja
ninja -C ../build kintsuki
cp ../build/target-kintsuki/libkintsuki.dylib src/kintsuki/_lib/
pip install -e .

License

ISC. Vendors ares under its own ISC license — see ares/LICENSE in the parent repo.