PocketNES update, assisted by AI

SDA · May 15, 2026

I suppose AI can actually be useful if you use it for the more technical details, and not to translate texts in a video game like SEGAGAGA.

Krem Quay · 2026-07-09T14:13:14+0100

Sorry for the delay, everyone! I've been working on getting AI to help reverse-engineer the VT03 hardware to make a spinoff of PocketNES titled PocketVT. Currently only Lonely Island (depicted) is confirmed to work. Repo here: https://github.com/GamingFanboy365/pocketvt

I may have to make a separate spinoff thread for this, but point is: i've been busy!

@Jayro btw, pocketnes.elf and pocketnes.gba been uploaded to Github repo

radicalten · 2026-07-09T16:18:19+0100

Congrats on your new release! It was inspiring to read how you have made dreams come true.

Krem Quay · 2026-07-09T16:22:55+0100

yeah haha ! glad you like what you see here

radicalten · 2026-07-09T16:39:37+0100

Yes sir. In fact, I am interested in learning about your approach to AI augmented software development. For example, what is the limit on lines of code you can include in a single prompt to Claude or Gemini? (When testing free AI-endpoints I notice it cuts you off after 3k lines of code, is the limit the same or bigger for paid accounts?). Also, I have only used AI with the chat interface, is agentic mode a big boost to productivity? Thank you for your time.

Krem Quay · 2026-07-09T17:07:14+0100

you can upload some files to it on claude.ai -- like NESdev XML's. i did the grind work of having it convert an official VT03 (and VT02) datasheet pdf to .md

obviously paid accounts will get you more usage time. im on the Pro tier of claude and gemini. but again, I use Claude for programming because the way it was able to get all this to work is that it was able to use mGBA for debugging, but I had to set it to higher tier models (Opus 4.8 and Fable 5) and set the effort level to max because reverse-engineering a 12-bit NES famiclone architecture is not well documented.

but then effort, i think, can be dropped to like low or medium on Claude Opus when working with, let's say, adding extra NES mappers to PocketNES because NES mappers are widely documented, unlike VT03

radicalten · 2026-07-09T17:15:52+0100

I see, thank you. I was wondering in terms of my own projects, say I have repo with 50 c files, each 1k lines of code. With free AI I am able to upload 3 of those c files before the entire interface shuts down. With claude could I upload all 50 c files in one context? Or is that beyond the current capabilities?

Krem Quay · 2026-07-09T17:22:46+0100

i think it's beyond, but i havent tried, just upload a zip file & that could help. claude does have a 100-file limit per conversation though, i believe

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