frontend

monsoon-frontend

Native GUI frontend for the Monsoon NES emulator, built with egui.

A desktop (and web) application for playing NES games with a full graphical interface. It is part of the Monsoon Emulator project.

Features

• ROM loading via file dialog or command-line argument
• Quick save/load and autosave support
• Save state browser (browse, load, export saves)
• PPU debug views (pattern tables, nametables, palettes)
• Custom palette file loading
• Pluggable screen renderers
• WASM support (runs in web browsers with IndexedDB storage)

Quick Start

# Run with default settings
cargo run

# Run with a ROM file
cargo run -- --rom path/to/game.nes

Building for WASM

The frontend supports WebAssembly builds for running in a web browser:

Build

cargo build -p monsoon-frontend --target wasm32-unknown-unknown

Serve

trunk serve

License

This project is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License.