First ZSNES Release In ~2.5 Years

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First ZSNES Release In ~2.5 Years

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 26, 2004 @06:54AM from the hobby-lobby dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "The best SNES emulator, and the only GPL one -- ZSNES -- has had the first release in almost two and a half years! Looks like those smart coders reverse engineered quite a few new special co-processors for this release as well."

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Excellent! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-26 06:57 · Score: 4, Informative

Yesterday I tested zsnes first time on my linux laptop and was blown away - excellent emulator!

And now I read about a new release - even better!
zSnes Dev team 3 by Tasy · 2004-12-26 06:57 · Score: 5, Informative

Actually, there have been work in progress releases all along. This is the first non-"beta" release in two years.

See you in WoW, pagefault. :D!

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Nice and all... by Leffe · 2004-12-26 07:00 · Score: 4, Informative

... but we already got CVS builds once in a while from here:

http://www.ipherswipsite.com/
Reccomendation by labratuk · 2004-12-26 07:08 · Score: 5, Informative

For anyone wanting to play SNES games I highly reccomend looking in your kernel documentation about how to hook up your SNES controller to work with the gamecon driver. Only takes about 10 minutes.

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Re:Best? by Horse+Rotorvator+JAD · 2004-12-26 07:10 · Score: 5, Informative

I'll throw in a second vote for snes9x. As can be seen on their download page http://www.snes9x.com/downloads.asp they have ported snes9x to; Solaris, OpenBSD, Irix, N64, FreeBSD, AmigaOS, BeOS, RiscOS, SunOS, MS-DOS, HP-UX, MacOS, Linux and Windows.

It has a very easy to use and intuitive interface with all the options that one would expect from an emulator. It is stable and has played every single ROM I've thrown at it without a single problem. Whenever I set up a new USB thumbdrive with all my essential software, snes9x always goes on there.
Re:SNES9X by Yosho · 2004-12-26 07:39 · Score: 4, Informative

You have to keep in mind that back when ZSNES was first being developed, computers weren't fast enough to emulate a SNES properly. I recall first using ZSNES on a Pentium 2, 300 MHz; not top-of-the-line, but a pretty good computer for the time. As far as I can recall, there weren't any SNES emulators that would run games at full speed, but ZSNES came pretty close; SNES 9x was more accurate, but also considerably slower unless most of the features were disabled.

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Re:2.5 years.. gad by BradleyUffner · 2004-12-26 07:40 · Score: 5, Informative

It hasn't really been 2.5 years. There have been unofficial builds released every few months, they refer to them as "WIPs" or Work In Progres. The WIPs are awesome, each one fixed a bunch of bugs, and was rock stable.