The 3D cartridge
Perspective renderer, eight compressed tunnel frames, 240 VRAM tiles, dual tilemap buffering, per-scanline curves, projected drones, collision, boost, sound, ROM header, and checksums.
NO ASSEMBLER. NO SOURCE LANGUAGE.
AST
Hyperdrive.
This is a real 32 KiB Game Boy cartridge. The game was authored as typed LR35902 instruction nodes and compiled straight into ROM bytes.
ROM AST→LR35902→3D tunnel
PLAY THE ARTIFACT
The binary is running
inside a Game Boy.
Steer the targeting reticle with the D-pad. Fire with A / X before a drone reaches the cockpit. Hold B / Z to engage boost and double its approach speed.
- ROM
- LOADING
- CONTROLS
- STEER · A FIRE · B BOOST
- RENDERER
- DUAL TILEMAP + RASTER FX
BATTERY
DOT MATRIX WITH STEREO SOUND
CARTRIDGE EVIDENCE
Not a canvas game
wearing a costume.
Download the ROM and boot it in any compatible Game Boy emulator. The browser player is only a host for the same cartridge.
- ROM AST NODES
- —
- CARTRIDGE
- —
- TARGET
- —
- ROM SHA-256
- —
EXPERIMENT BOUNDARY
What is ours,
what is borrowed.
The browser emulator
binjgb executes the cartridge in WebAssembly. It is deliberately not counted as AST-first work.