Building A Fantasy Game Console Emulator: System Overview and Graphics Pipeline @LowByteProductions

Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

In this video we explore the details of the fantasy game console, based on the 16 Bit Virtual Machine - and begin coding the graphics pipeline.

The fantasy console serves as a very simple model for an emulator of a classic game console like the NES or the GameBoy, only without all the tricky real world details and limitations that come with such systems. It allows us to contextualise all the topics we've been learning about while building the VM, and gain some understanding about how it must have been to be a programmer in the days of true resource constraint!

00:00 - Series Introduction
00:43 - System overview
10:06 - Building the graphics pipeline

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