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Developer ports NES Contra to WebAssembly with AI-assisted C rewrite

Commenters marvel at the scale of the original disassembly

2 Oct 31 5:07 PM · 12d ago · 2 comments · 1 source · development 2 of 5

Readers react to the underlying hand-commented 6502 assembly source, noting it spans more than 10,000 lines, and praise the difficulty of managing code at that scale.

“The whole thing (all banks) is more than 10,000 lines of assembly code... I cannot imagine writing and managing 10,000 lines!”

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tevlon Developer who built the WebAssembly Contra portvermiceli Original author of the annotated Contra disassembly

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