Imagesource: SNESticle

The story around NESticle reads a bit like a real hacker epic of the 90s. The NES emulator - actually developed by Icer Addis aka Sardu, who worked for Electronic Arts at that time - was the first really working and performing NES emulator of its time (1997 on a DX2-66MHz!).

The source of the emulator was then stolen by Donald Moore via an open Samba share, which caused Addis to stop development thereafter. But that's not the end of the story. In the EA title Fight Night Round 2, the  emulator (now SNESticle) was used commercially, and that in turn prompted Johannes Holmberg to start the SNESticle Liberation Project, in which he successfully attempted to extract the emulator from the game.

Not very direct, that way.

A week ago, Sardu then had a change of heart, and made the source code available on github - almost 25 years after the initial release. Let's see how long it will take until the first binaries become available.