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Developer Runs a Working Nintendo Emulator Inside Roughly 1GB of Qwen Weights

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A GitHub project named nesformer demonstrates a functioning Nintendo Entertainment System running within the weights of a Qwen model that is about 1GB in size. The project was shared on Hacker News, where it gained a few points but no comments at the time of posting. The source material provides only the repository link and basic engagement figures, so the technical details of the implementation are not described here. The work appears to be an experimental, community-driven showcase rather than an official release from Qwen's developers or Nintendo.

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