# dbreunig/nesformer

> An NES emulator compiled into the weights of a Qwen3.5 model: the 6502 CPU, 2 KB RAM and cartridge ROM run inside a stock checkpoint, with the Gated DeltaNet state acting as machine memory.

- Magnitude: 5.6 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 82 total · +48 stars measured 2026-10-30, 17:48–20:08 UTC, ≈ 55 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Language models · Language: Python · Created: 2026-10-30 · Last push: 2026-10-30
- GitHub: https://github.com/dbreunig/nesformer · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/dbreunig/nesformer

## Useful for

- Run a test ROM through nesformer and compare frames with a conventional 6502 emulator
- Study how the compiler turns a CPU circuit into Qwen3_5ForCausalLM weights
- Execute the checkpoint in stock transformers via hfcheck.py to verify output

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-30 (UTC), 17:48–20:08: 34 → 82 stars (+48). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +55 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 0 days old and already has 82 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Hacker News: “A Working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen Weights” — 120 points, 3 h ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 2
- Issues and pull requests: 0
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 55 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 18

## Stars per day, last 1 day (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-30 … 2026-10-30: 48

## Hacker News

- A Working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen Weights — 120 points, 91 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50306442

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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