Founded on November 9, 1996 |
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Also check out the SNES List (08/08/99), a comprehensive listing of SNES/SFC titles. |
| Name | Links | Last Updated | OS | Description |
| ESNES | v0.14a | 08/05/97 Discontinued |
DOS | Lord ESNES and Ishmair made a great SNES emulator. It is written in assembly and has sound support, thanks to Ishmair's efforts. It was one of the best. Now, it has merged with NLKSNES to become NLKE. |
| Geiger’s Snes9x Debugger | Mark 9 Release 8 | 04/19/05 03/18/03 02/21/03 03/19/04 |
Windows | Geiger (AKA Evil Peer) has compiled a new version of Snes9x which includes some rather hefty additions. Mostly geared towards romhacking/reverse-engineering of SNES games, the additions include a robust Debugger, Hex Editor, Tracer, and code "usage mapping" features. Currently the most advanced SNES debugging emulator. |
| NLKE | v0.05b | 01/01/00 Discontinued |
DOS | ESNES and NLKSNES joined forces so the authors could work on one emulator together. NLKE was born. This emulator has all the features of ESNES along with the speed of NLKSNES. Transparencies are also available, although unoptimized rather slow. There's also a simple GUI as well. NLKE is better than many but ZSNES is faster and more compatibible. |
| NLKSNES | v0.15d | 09/16/97 Discontinued |
DOS | This emulator was one of the fastest SNES emulators there was, and it even featured Mode7. There's no sound support, though. It merged with ESNES to because NLKE. |
| Pasofami | v1.4u | 12/06/04 | Windows | This emulator has been around for quite some time. Little is known about it however since it is natively in Japanese. This also appears to be crippleware. |
| SNEeSe | v0.831 | 08/12/04 | DOS Win32 |
This emulator can play many commercial games, and also has Mode7 scaling effects, along with HiROM support, decent sound, and more. It is written in a mix of C, C++ and assembly. Most emulation routines are done in assembly. It's quite slow, so brace yourself. It was discontinued by Savoury SnaX, but TRAC never stopped working on it, so private betas were still being released. This is one of only five active SNES emulatorsand is in 3rd place for best emulator overall. |
| SNem | v0.02 | 06/29/03 09/29/04 |
DOS Windows Source DOS Windows |
This is a newer SNES emulator and is in active progress. It is open source and runs more games now in the WIP and the graphics engine is better. One to watch for progress. The WIP version includes the source code |
| SNEmul | v0.9 | 08/02/99 Discontinued |
DOS | SNEmul hasn't been updated in a long time now and is assumed to be discontinued. It has sound, decent compatibility, doesn't require VESA2 and has one of the best GUIs ever. This is a good emulator but nowhere near the quality of newer emulators. |
| SNEqr | v0.340 | 06/23/98 Discontinued |
DOS | This emulator has been discontinued. It has some useful features, such as automatic state saving and cheat searching and a good GUI. However, it has medium compatibility and lacks sound, 16-bit color mode and other advanced features found in more popular emulators. The source code is available for anyone to look at and play around with. |
| Snes9k | v0.09 | 11/03/04 | Windows | This is an unofficial work in progress of Snes9x with Kaillera netplay support. |
| Snes9x | v1.43 Final | 01/01/05 01/01/05 | Windows Source | Snes9x's CPU core is written in assembly, and its graphics engine and SPC700
engine are well optimized. Both versions sport very nice GUIs. Snes9x supports
graphics modes 0-7, 2 joysticks, transparencies, Super FX support and has real
time save/loading. This is now one of the best SNES emulators around, and it
stands only second to ZSNES in terms of compatibility. Note: v1.43 does not include NetPlay support! |
| Snes9xGL | v1.29 Beta 1 | 05/15/00 | Windows | Kreed has made a version of Snes9X which uses OpenGL instead of Glide to do fullscreen bilinear filtering. It looks nice, but there's no GUI. |
| Snes9xPP SE | v09-14-04 | 09/14/04 05/04/04 05/04/04 |
Windows Windows Windows |
This is a custom version of Snes9x which adds an HQ2X filter. A processor with a speed of at least 1.5GHz is highly reccomended. |
| Snes9x (Unofficial) | Beta 9.9.7 | 10/30/01 10/30/01 08/13/01 |
Windows | This is a unofficial version which is based on the sources from Snes9X 1.37c. |
| SNESGT | v0.163b | 12/12/04 | Windows | SNESGT is a fairly new emulator from GIGO and Hii (who also made G-NES and TGB Dual). It's much more advanced now and the GUI has been translated to English. |
| SNEShout | v3.2 | 04/02/01 Discontinued |
Windows | Based on the Snes9x (1.37) core, this emulator features a few few minor tweaks and one major improvment; SNES games can be played using the Japanese version of ViaVoice. It comes with voice mappings for Street Fighter 2 and Puyo Puyo 2 but more can always be made. This version comes with the option of making the interface in Japanese, Chinese (BIG5), or English. |
| Super Sleuth | Public Beta v1.2 | 12/24/04 | Windows | Super Sleuth is an emulator in the works for about six years, only publicly released recently. It features a realtime debugging system and great compatibility. |
| TheSE | v0.14b | 07/31/98 Discontinued |
DOS | TheSE, which stands for The SNES Emulator, is an emulator from the same team that created the now dead USNES. It hasn't been updated in a long time, the website is down and it's probably discontinued. |
| USNES | v0.1b | 04/27/97 Discontinued |
DOS | If there is a more useless SNES emulator than VSMC this has to be it. It only had two releases, both which were slow and buggy. The USNES team is now programming the emulator TheSE, but progress on it seems to be stalled. This one is simply here for nostalgic reasons, as it only runs a few SNES Games. |
| VSMC | v9702d | 10/21/96 Discontinued |
DOS | VSMC was pretty good for its time, but many emulators cam out after it that were far better and free too. Now ZSNES and SNES 9x are in a completely different generation than this. Don't bother with it. |
| ZSNES | DOS v1.42 | 01/19/05 01/19/05 06/28/00 02/27/00 07/03/01 01/19/05 |
DOS Windows DOS Windows Windows - |
This is the fastest SNES emulator in existence. It features all SNES screen modes as well as add/sub transparencies in 16 bit graphics mode (VESA2 support is required), mosaic effects, Super FX emulation (Star Fox, etc), DSP1 emulation (Mario Kart, etc), C4 emulation (MegaMan X2/3), real time saving, and a really great GUI which lets you configure the emulator to your heart's content. It has interpolated sound, and it will really blow you away! It also supports the snes mouse, and has a slew of other options as well including movie recording and modem to modem netplay! zsKnight, _Demo_, and Pharos have certainly outdone themselves. This is the SNES emulator of choice! Check out the SourceForge site for a copy of the source code. zbattle.net is a multi-player service for ZSNES. zbattle.net uses a centralized server, which means everybody using it will be able to join your game. zbattle.net currently only supports the Windows version of ZSNES. |
