Super Famicom/SNES
The SNES is a truly wonderful little machine, it has many
different "hardware modes" like rotation, transparency, scaling that
help the games to scale and rotate sprites. Hardware modes are special
routines that are programmed into the SNES hardware that help the SNES
to make all the great effects in the SNES games.—clubey
The SNES, introduced 1989, did not rule absolute as did its predecessor,
the NES,
it had sharp competition in the SEGA Genesis, but
I get the impression that more SNES games are considered classics than of
any other console.
Emulation-wise, this is
where I am really at home. Nearly all the console games I played
were SNES games—Chrono Trigger, Final
Fantasy IV & VI, Earthbound, Terranigma,
Shadowrun…
I guess it was Chronotrigger that introduced me to the whole emulator
business. I had read a lot about it and wanted to try it out. I'm glad
I did. In sheer beauty, it is rivaled by no other game.
- ZSNES
was written for DOS originally, so it has its own graphic interface,
and a very beautiful one, too.
ZSNES has a certain warez appeal, reminds you of the opulent DOS-ASCII-graphics
of nfo-files.
I would say that this is the best emulator for the SNES, but it takes
some time to get used to, its interface is not completely intuitive. It even
took me a while to figure out how to change its size, for when first started,
it opens as a 256×224 window. But once I had overcome the initial
difficulties, it became my favorite.
- ZSNES only runs on DOS, Windows 32 and Linux/FreeBSD. The DOS
version is still actively developed. An older homepage is kept for historical reasons.
- Snes9x
- As the name implies, this emulator was written for the Windows 9x platform
originally. But since its source code is available, it has been ported to more
operating systems than any other SNES emulator.
Win9x, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD,
MacOS,
OS/2,
BeOS, Amiga, N64, source code available.
- This is not in any way an attractive program—it simply uses
the standard Windows interface—but it is very easy to use, and is
the emulator I used most until I figured out how to use ZSNES. The only
thing really annoying about it is its lack of a screenshot function.
- SNEmul
- Unfortunately, development
on this interesting project seems to have stopped 1999.
"In the long run, SNEmul should be a full SNES workbench with a debugger,
an assembler/disassembler, and many other useful functions."
DOS, Linux, NetBSD (only in French?)
Games
This is a list of all the SNES page about which there is currently
something on this website, including ports from other platforms.
Other games that were ported (mostly from the PC) to the SNES include
DOOM,
Ultima VI,
Ultima VII,
SimCity and
SimCity 2000.
Last modified 2009-05-19
