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Super Nintendo Emulators
| 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. |
| 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. |
| SNEeSe |
v0.80 (DOS)
v0.80 (Win) Source v0.80 |
05/19/03 |
DOS
WIN |
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 emulators and is in 3rd place for best emulator overall. |
| SNem |
v0.012
v0.012
Source v0.012 |
02/10/03 |
DOS
Windows |
This brand new SNES emulator is very incomplete, only runs a few games and is for DOS. It's just above the level of USNES and is one of the few active SNES emulators. It's also open source. One to watch for progress. |
| 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
Source 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. |
| Snes9x
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v1.26
v1.39a
v1.39
(Setup)
Source v1.39a
v1.29 Beta 1
(Snes9xGL) |
10/12/99
11/11/02
09/19/01
11/11/02
05/15/00 |
DOS
Windows
Windows
DOS/Windows
Wind9x |
Snes9x's cpu 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.
This is the source code.
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 yet. |
| Snes9x (Unofficial) |
Beta 9.9.7
Beta 9.9.7
K6
Source Beta 9.9.4 |
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. |
| Snes9x (French) |
v1.36 |
02/26/00 |
Windows |
This is simply Snes9X translated into French. |
| Snes9x (German) |
v1.31 |
09/05/00 |
Windows |
This is simply Snes9X translated into German. |
| SNESGT |
v0.085a |
06/13/03 |
Windows |
SNESGT is a fairly new emulator from GIGO and Hii (who also made G-NES and TGB Dual). It's fairly advanced now but the GUI is still in Japanese. This most recent update seems to have added some new features and corrected some bugs. |
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