At uni, a large chunk of my final-year grade hinged on a large project, where we'd meet up with a supervisor, build a non-trivial application, and write a disse

At uni, a large chunk of my final-year grade hinged on a large project, where we'd meet up with a supervisor, build a non-trivial application, and write a dissertation on it. One of the best projects from recent years that was handed out as inspiration was someone that built a game boy emulator, with the ultimate aim of being able to run Pokemon Red. This dissertation was public on the CS site for about 5 years, with source code to run it, and although this was pre-GitHub Nintendo were still very litigious back then. No ROM's were provided, so I assume Nintendo either missed it, or didn't care.