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Drew Breunig built a working emulator for the Nintendo Entertainment System 6502 CPU into the weights of the Qwen3.5-4B model, inspired by Divyansh Agrawal's qwenputer. NES ROMs such as Super Mario Bros can reportedly be run inside the model, very slowly.

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“dbreunig/nesformer Inspired by qwenputer by Divyansh Agrawal, Drew Breunig baked a working emulator for a Nintendo Entertainment System 6502 CPU into the weights of Qwen3.5-4B.”
Simon Willison's Weblog, 30 Oct 2026, 21:59.

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