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Hello fellow developers! I’m new to this community and I am interested in learning more about you all, I have a simple question what is your favorite personal project that you have developed in the C programming language? It doesn’t have to be something mind blowing or extremely complex just something that you’ve enjoyed developing.
I few years back I wrote a Gameboy emulator in C, it was definitely one of the most fun projects I've done. The Gameboy is simple enough that you can make an emulator for it without crazy amounts is effort, and the result is very satisfying. A lot of the simpler systems people recommend writing emulators for aren't that interesting IMO simply because after you write it the games you can run aren't that great.
A Game Boy emulator is what I want to do next in that realm. I’ve done a CHIP-8 emulator/interpreter, but as you said, the actual games that run on it aren’t too great. I feel Game Boy is a logical next step. Either Game Boy or NES.
I haven't personally written a NES emulator but I have a friend who did and it seemed like a comparable level of difficulty to the GB. It did sound like emulating the cartridge hardware was harder because games didn't tell you what they used (compared to GB where a cart tells your that info in the header), but I'm guessing you can cover most games by only implementing a small subset of the options anyway.