dbreunig/nesformer

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Drew Breunig embedded a functional Nintendo Entertainment System 6502 CPU emulator into the weights of the Qwen3.5-4B language model, enabling it to run NES games like Super Mario Bros, albeit slowly. This approach was inspired by Divyansh Agrawal's Qwenputer and uses Opus 5.5 prompts and historical NES CPU conformance tests.

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