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I really only play SMW, so I really only use ZSNES.

I have nothing of interest to put here.

I played on ZSNES because it has awesome pixel filters, while it reads better some hacks, once I tried running SMBDX in Snes9x, and Guess what? IT DIDN'T WORKED

'signature.txt' was not found.

For smw hacks and some games I always use ZSNES. And for games I use the SNES Gt! Hacks work on this emulator too!

I really don't want to pick too many posts apart (not only would it piss people off and be generally not worth it, but it'd be kinda time-consuming), but... there's one I really, really need to say something about:

Originally posted by TomPhanto

snesx9 was the first one I used, so it's the one I'm accustomed to the most. Although I use v1.43 since v1.52+ doesn't play back sound correctly.

It's ZSNES (and old snes9x versions, I guess) that play(s) back sound incorrectly - later versions of snes9x, and bsnes all play it back correctly. The issue is, well, addmusic isn't coded very well... so it tends to abuse emulation flaws in older emulators. It'll sound fine in those, yeah, but... playing back sound correctly equals playing it back how it would play on the real console, and unfortunately, it would sound horribly broken on there.

I do understand that it is, at the moment, something most hacks depend on, though, so... eh. It's the reason I keep it around, mainly, as a fallback...

That being said... I'm a split bsnes/snes9x (more recent versions) user. I don't like the way bsnes has turned on the usability front, so I tend to stick with an older version when I use it (v072 or v080, if I remember correctly? I've not fired up a SNES emu in ages, I'll admit), and snes9x is just a generally good emulator for almost all systems. (It'll run beautifully on pretty much any system I've touched, even my 1.33ghz iBook G4!) Not to mention, well, ZSNES's GUI has grown to bother me over the past few years (I found it cool as hell back in the early-mid 2000s, I'll admit, especially fullscreen... but it just looks wonky on anything larger than 1280x1024 or not on a 4:3 or 5:4 screen... 1600x1200 may be fine but I don't have one of those screens, so.)

That being said, well, use what you like... just don't be too shocked if things break that would work on a real system if your emulator is too inaccurate, eventually.

I can't wait until ZSNES's next update, I'll be honest. I want to see it run more games properly.

A HOMEPAGE

Originally posted by imamelia

Originally posted by Maxx

It ... works with almost every single game fairly accurately.

Except Yoshi's Island, Super Mario RPG, Donkey Kong Country 2, Donkey Kong Country 3, Zelda 3, Kirby Super Star, Kirby's Dream Land 3, Earthworm Jim 2, Der Langrisser, Tetris Attack...

I think the inaccuracy that's the biggest deal is actually Star Ocean.
It's got a reputation for being buggy, when it really isn't.

Anyway, I'm going to go with bsnes compatability profile. I like accuracy, but I can't actually run the accuracy profile. Hopefully I can eventually. I think what's needed is a emulator as accurate as bsnes, but with the UI of ZSNES. Maybe smc's are automatically converted to sfc upon loading them.

Cough bzsnes

The UI for zsnes (I find at least) is shit though; why do people love it so much?

layouts suck

Originally posted by CommieYoshi

Cough bzsnes

The UI for zsnes (I find at least) is shit though; why do people love it so much?

Because of the compatibility with the damaged ROMs they use.

Nothing worth looking at here.

It's not the file formats (which snes9x does support fine), it's the interface itself; I think it's ugly as shit and doesn't integrate to the OS at all; it's a DOS relic.

layouts suck

For me, the features of the emulator outweigh the GUI; it's by no means a modern UI, but at least it's readable.

Celarix | smlimitless@github | Avatar by Uhrix

I'd use bsnes exclusively if I had a good enough computer to run it at full speed. 40 fps may not seen like a huge difference in theory but it feels like molasses in practice.

Thank for playing ZSNES !!! I have play hacks on ZSNES !!!

Yes, ZSNES is certainly popular, but that was determined long ago. Please do not post in threads whose last post was over a month ago (with the Tutorials forum and stickied threads being an exception).

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