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
| 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-nes → nes-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.
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.
nes · 6502 · reverse-engineering · games