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Gemfire (NES, 1992)

Game 7 in the KOEI NES decompiler family (decompile order, not release order — L’Empereur is 1991 and is game 8). The NES half of the Gemfire pair; the SNES twin is gemfire-snes.

Links: system → NES · toolchain → KOEI tools · SNES twin → gemfire-snes · thesis → KOEI AI & combat evolution

Identity

Field Value
Logical name GemFire-decompiler (public) · github.com/chrisaacson69/GemFire-decompiler
Sibling path ../GemFire-decompiler (resolved via .claude/local-paths.md)
Status 521/521 bytecode subs named; the KOEI Famicom VM; 8-chapter walkthrough
Depends on koei-nesnes-render

⚠️ Not cloned on this machine (2026-07-21). Note the repo name capitalizes as GemFire-decompiler while the SNES sibling is Gemfire-snes-decompiler — resolve by the exact logical name.

Notes

KOEI + localized-title dual branding — the pattern L’Empereur also follows. Shipping on both NES and SNES makes Gemfire the second cross-console pair (after ROTK2), which is what let the portable-VM finding be checked twice rather than once.

Tags

nes · 6502 · reverse-engineering · games