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ZSNES is currently the emulator of choice for
the SNES platform due to its extraordinary speed
and compatibility. ZSNES is well-rounded in just
about every category, but it also excels in one
that usually slips under the radar and that’s
netplay support. For further details on ZSNES, please
see the Editor’s Choice review.
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Editor's Choice Review |
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The
table below contains editor's choice and recommended emulators.
These are emulators that particularly stand out on their respective
platforms or in many cases can emulate their target platform
with a 90% accuracy rate or higher.
Snes9x
Homepage |
v1.43 for Windows
1 / 31 / 2005
v1.43 Source
1 / 31 / 2005 |
Snes9x is one of
the best SNES emulators available for a host of
platforms including Windows. Snes9x features gamepad
support, save-state support, netplay support, very
high compatibility, hardware acceleration, a very
clean and functional GUI and ROM manager as well
as support for virtually all SNES hardware effects
and the source code is available since Snes9x is
an Open-Source emulator. There really are very few
downsides to Snes9x and for day-to-day use, this
is certainly one of the two to consider.
Overall Rating 9.0 out of 10
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SNESGT
Homepage |
v0.205
for Windows
9 / 29 / 2005 |
SNESGT is a SNES
emulator for Windows by GIGO and Hii which has recently
been translated from it’s original Japanese
to English. SNESGT features fairly good compatibility,
save-state support, gamepad support, hardware acceleration
and a host of other features. SNESGT will run most
titles flawlessly, with the exception of particularly
later or advanced titles.
Overall Rating 8.0 out of 10 |
SNEShout
Homepage |
v3.2
for Windows
4 / 2 / 2001 - Discontinued |
SNEShout is a
multilingual SNES emulator for Windows based on
Snes9x. SNEShout supports hardware acceleration,
gamepad support, save-state support and a user interface
in English (default), Japanese, or Chinese (Big5).
Not much has been changed from the Snes9x core except
for a revamped GUI and voice-recognition support
through the Japanese program “ViaVoice.”
The voice recognition function unfortunately is
not available in English since ViaVoice only recognizes
Japanese speech.
Overall Rating 7.0 out of 10 |
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The
emulators below are considered works-in-progress. Due to their
development stage many of these emulators may exhibit stability
issues and may have little or no compatibility with commercial
titles. Also due to their development stage we do not feel
it's fair to rate these emulators as we do the others, so all
emulators in this category are un-rated.
SNEeSe
Homepage |
v0.841
for Windows
6 / 22 / 2005
v0.841 for
DOS
6 / 22 / 2005
v0.841 Source
6 / 22 / 2005 |
SNEeSe is an Open-Source
SNES emulator with fairly good compatibility and
support for quite a few difficult to emulate SNES
hardware effects. SNEeSe also features a custom
GUI allowing most options to be changed graphically
instead of manually editing the configuration file.
Unfortunately SNEeSe has serious speed issues making
it difficult to use for day-to-day use. SNEeSe has
also been discontinued by its initial developer
but has been continued by TRAC. This emulator is published under the GPL. |
SNem
Homepage
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v0.02
for Windows
6 / 29 / 2003 |
A recent addition
to the SNES family of emulators is SNem, a command-line
based and Open-Source SNES emulator for Windows
and DOS. SNem currently has fairly low compatibility
with the ability to only run a small handful of
commercial titles without any serious flaws and
also exhibits serious stability issues under NT-based
Operating Systems. At this point, SNem is a work-in-progress. |
ZSNES
WIP
Homepage |
v3.19.2006
for Windows
3 / 19 / 2006
v3.19.2006
for DOS
3 / 19 / 2006
v3.19.2006
Source
3 / 19 / 2006 |
This is the work-in-progress
release of ZSNES. It features everything you would
find in ZSNES as well as recent bug-fixes and sometimes
new features. I’d have to say that in development,
this release would be akin to a “Nightly Build”,
except it’s not released quite so frequently.
If you want to be on the bleeding edge, this is
certainly worth a try, but if not, we’d recommend
going with the latest stable release of ZSNES above. |
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