Space Invaders Emulator

This is a emulator of the classic arcade game, Space Invaders (1978), write in Rust.

Test it: https://rodrigodd.github.io/space-invaders-emu/

Controls

'Z' is Shoot, 'Left' and 'Right' arrows to move, 'Return' for 1 Player Start button, and 'Backspace' for the 2 Player Button.

And for binary builds with the debug feature enable, press Escape to enter the debug mode.

debugger

When in debug mode, you can enter commands in the terminal:

• run to exit the debug mode;
• bp <HEX ADRESS> to place a breakpoint at an address;
• runto <HEX ADRESS> to run until the given address.

Compile

To compile and run to Windows, Linux or macOS, run the command cargo run --release.

Or cargo run --release --features=debug to enable the intel 8080 debugger.

WebAssembly

To compile to WebAssembly, you can use wasm-pack with the command:

wasm-pack build --target web --out-dir ../pkg  ./space-invaders-wasm

You can run it in a webpage by starting a http server in the root directory. You can use python for that, for example:

py -m http.server