Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulators: Difference between revisions

The [[gametech:Super Nintendo Entertainment System|'''Super Nintendo Entertainment System''']] (SNES) is a 16-bit, fourth-generation home video game console released by Nintendo originally released as the '''Super Famicom''' (SFC), in Japan, on November 21, 1990. The Super Famicom retailed for ¥25000. The console would release outside Japan as the SNES on August 23, 1991, in North America. The SNES retailed for {{Inflation|USD|199.99|1991}}. It has a Ricoh 5A22 CPU at 3.58 MHz with 128 KB of RAM. While the Super Famicom did well in Japan, outselling the [[PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16) emulators|PC Engine]], outside of Japan during that time the SNES had fierce competition with SEGA's [[Sega Genesis emulators|Mega Drive]] (known world wide as the Mega Drive, in America as the Genesis).

== Comparison ==

{{Emulator comparison introduction|[[#Enhancements|enhancements]], [[#Hardware features and peripherals|hardware features & peripherals]], and [[#Hardware variants|hardware variants]]}}

 

=== Standalone emulators ===

{| {{Emulator table}}

! colspan="2" |Name

| rowspan="5" |bsnes-based

| align="left" |{{Icon|Windows|WoA|Linux|LinuxARM|macOSx86|macOSARM|FreeBSD}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://nightly.link/bsnes-emu/bsnes/workflows/build/master nightly]||{{Green}} {{License|GPLv3}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|Partial Cycle||{{Ya}}

| align="left" |{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/DerKoun/bsnes-hd/releases {{bsnes-hdVer}}]||{{Green}} {{License|GPLv3}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|Partial Cycle||{{Ya}}

| align="left" |{{Icon|Windows}}||{{~}}

|[https://github.com/Marat-Tanalin/bsnes-mt/releases {{bsnes-mtVer}}]||{{Green}} {{License|GPLv3}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|Partial Cycle||{{~}}

|[https://github.com/awjackson/bsnes-classic bsnes-classic]

[https://github.com/Themaister/bsnes-Qt forked bsnes Qt v073]

| align="left" |{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}||{{Na}}

|[https://github.com/awjackson/bsnes-classic git]||{{Green}} {{License|GPLv3}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|Partial Cycle||{{Na}}

| align="left" |{{Icon|Windows}}||{{~}}

|[https://lsnes.tasbot.net/ rr2-β25]

[http://repo.or.cz/w/lsnes.git git]

|Partial Cycle||{{Na}}

| rowspan="3" |Snes9x-based

| align="left" |{{Icon|Windows|Linux|LinuxARM|macOSx86|FreeBSD|Pandora}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/snes9xgit/snes9x#snes9x-1 nightly]

[https://github.com/snes9xgit/snes9x/releases {{Snes9xVer}}]

|[https://github.com/snes9xgit/snes9x/issues/53 5 known issues]

|High||{{Ya}}

| align="left" |{{Icon|Pyra}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://pyra-handheld.com/repo/apps/84 1.5.46.02]||{{Yellow}} {{License|NC}}

|[https://github.com/snes9xgit/snes9x/issues/53 5 known issues]

|High||{{Dunno}}

|SuperSnes9x

| align="left" |{{Icon|Windows|Linux|OSX}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/shanytc/snes9x/releases {{SuperSnes9xVer}}]||{{Yellow}} {{License|NC}}

|[https://github.com/shanytc/snes9x/issues 14 known issues]

|High||{{Ya}}

| colspan="2" |[[CATSFC]]

| align="left" |{{Icon|Windows|Linux|LinuxARM|macOSx86|FreeBSD|Pandora}}||{{Na}}

|[https://github.com/ShadauxCat/CATSFC git]||{{Yellow}} {{License|NC}}<br>{{License|GPLv2}}

|Mid||{{Na}}

| colspan="2" |kindred (Super Sleuth PE)

| align="left" |{{Icon|Windows}}||{{Na}}

|[https://www.crazysmart.net.au/kindred {{kindredVer}}]||{{Yellow}} {{License|NC}}

|?||{{Na}}

| colspan="2" |[[No$|NO$SNS]]

| align="left" |{{Icon|Windows}}||{{Na}}

|[https://problemkaputt.de/sns.htm 1.6]||{{Red}} {{License|Proprietary}}

|Low||{{Na}}

| colspan="2" |[[Silhouette]]

| align="left" |{{Icon|macOS}}||{{Na}}

|[https://www.zophar.net/fileuploads/1/816uajag/Silhouette.sit.hqx 1.0]||{{Red}} {{License|Proprietary}}<br><small>(stolen [[Snes9x]] code)</small>

|Low||{{Na}}

| colspan="2" |SNESGT

| align="left" |{{Icon|Windows}}||{{Na}}

|[http://www.zophar.net/snes/snesgt.html 2.18 (2007)]||{{Red}} {{License|Proprietary}}

|Low||{{Na}}

| colspan="2" |[[ZSNES]]

| align="left" |{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|DOS}}||{{Na}}

|[http://zsnes.com 1.51]||{{Green}} {{License|GPLv2}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|Low||{{Na}}

| rowspan="3" |Snes9x-based

| align="left" |{{Icon|Android}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.explusalpha.Snes9xPlus {{Snes9x EX+Ver}}]

[https://github.com/Rakashazi/emu-ex-plus-alpha git]

|[https://github.com/snes9xgit/snes9x/issues/53 5 known issues]

|High||{{Ya}}

|[http://yoyofr92.free.fr/ Little John]

(Snes9x 1.39 based)

| align="left" |{{Icon|PalmOS}}||{{Na}}

|[https://www.zophar.net/palm-os/multiem/little-john-palmos.html 1.1], [https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/resources/little-john-palm-os.4443 1.2]||{{Dunno}}

|?||{{~}}

| align="left" |{{Icon|WinMobile}}||{{Na}}

|[https://www.appx4fun.com/xap/497 2.15.3]||{{Dunno}}

|?||{{~}}

| colspan="2" |J2MESnes

| align="left" |{{Icon|Java}}||{{Na}}

|||{{Dunno}}

|?||{{Na}}

| colspan="2" |[http://www.superretro16.com SuperRetro16]

| align="left" |{{Icon|Android}}||{{~}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.neutronemulation.super_retro_16 2.2.1]||{{Red}} {{License|Proprietary}}

|?||{{Na}}

|[https://github.com/snes9xgit/snes9x#snes9x-1 nightly]

[https://github.com/snes9xgit/snes9x/releases {{Snes9xVer}}]

|{{Yellow}} {{License|NC}}

|[https://github.com/snes9xgit/snes9x/issues/53 5 known issues]

=== [[Multi-system emulators]] ===

{| {{Emulator table}}

| align="left" |{{Icon|Windows|WoA|Linux|macOSx86|FreeBSD}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/ares-emulator/ares/releases {{AresVer}}]

[https://github.com/ares-emulator/ares/releases/tag/nightly nightly]

|{{Emulator compatibility|3107|3108|link=https://ares-emu.net/compatibility}}

|Full Cycle||{{Ya}}

| align="left" |{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOSx64|macOSARM|LinuxARM|W7}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/nesdev-org/MesenCE#development-builds Dev builds]||{{Green}} {{License|GPLv3}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|Cycle||{{Ya}}

|bsnes v087 (to be dropped in 2.11.1), v115+ (Snes9x, Mednafen, MAME)

| align="left" |{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://gitlab.com/TASVideos/BizHawk/-/pipelines Dev builds]

[http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk/ReleaseHistory.html {{BizHawkVer}}]

|?

[[BizHawk#Supported systems|(Core-dependent)]]

| align="left" |{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/jsgroth/jgenesis/releases {{JgenesisVer}}]||{{Green}} {{License|MIT}} ({{License|Permissive}})

|?||{{~}}

|[[higan]] (火眼)

byuu (謬/view)

| align="left" |{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}||{{Na}}

|[https://github.com/higan-emu/higan/releases {{HiganVer}}]||{{Green}} {{License|GPLv3}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|Full Cycle||{{Na}}

<small>Superseded by [[ares]].</small>

| align="left" |{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}||{{Ya}}

|[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]

|[http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/lista_mess.php?software_list_name=snes&compatibility= ?]||{{Na}}

| align="left" |{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}||{{Dunno}}

|[{{MednafenURL|releases/}} {{MednafenVer}}]||{{Green}} {{License|GPLv2}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|Partial Cycle||{{Na}}

| align="left" |{{Icon|iOS|iPadOS}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/delta-game-emulator/id1048524688 {{DeltaVer}}]

[https://github.com/rileytestut/Delta git]

|?||{{Dunno}}

| align="left" |{{Icon|iOS|iPadOS}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/folium/id6498623389 App Store] ($)

[https://folium.emuplace.app/downloads {{FoliumVer}}]

 

[https://github.com/emuplace/folium.emuplace.app/releases/latest Latest IPA]

|?||{{Dunno}}

|?

| align="left" |{{Icon|iOS|iPadOS}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/manic-emu-game-emulator/id6743335790 {{ManicEMUVer}}]

[https://github.com/Manic-EMU/ManicEMU/releases git]

|?||{{Dunno}}

| align="left" |{{Icon|iOS|iPadOS|tvOS}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/provenance-app/id1596862805 {{ProvenanceVer}}]

[https://github.com/Provenance-Emu/Provenance/releases git]

|?

=== [[Frontends#Project-specific frontends|Frontend cores]] ===

{| {{Emulator table}}

|+Platform (e.g., Android, Windows, and Linux) and architecture support (e.g., x86, ARM, and consoles) mostly depends on the [[Frontends#Project-specific frontends|frontend software]], not on the individual cores themselves.

!API

| rowspan="7" |[[File:Libretro.png|link=Libretro|100x100px]]

|[https://www.libretro.com/index.php/category/bsnes-hd/ bsnes_hd_beta_libretro]

[https://docs.libretro.com/library/bsnes_accuracy/ bsnes_accuracy]

 

[https://docs.libretro.com/library/bsnes_mercury_accuracy/ bsnes_mercury_libretro]

|Partial Cycle||{{Ya}}

|[https://docs.libretro.com/library/snes9x/ Snes9x]<ref group="note">snes9x2010_libretro (Snes9x Next & 1.53) has no PS4 support. For Xbox 360 version, use [https://digiex.net/threads/retroarch-360-0-9-8-3-download-sega-sens-gameboy-finalburn-emulator-for-xbox-360.12395 RetroArch 360 0.9.8.3].</ref>||{{Ya}}

|{{Dunno}}

|High||{{Ya}}

|[https://docs.libretro.com/library/beetle_bsnes/ beetle bsnes]<ref group="note">beetle_snes_libretro (Standalone port of Mednafen BSNES to libretro, itself a old fork of bsnes 0.59) and mednafen_supafaust_libretro (Libretro port of mednafen's SNES-Faust)</ref>||{{Ya}}

|Partial Cycle||{{~}}

|[https://docs.libretro.com/library/mesen-s/ Mesen-S]||{{Na}}

|Cycle||{{~}}

|MAME||{{Ya}}

|?||{{Na}}

|[https://github.com/gameblabla/PocketSNES Pocket SNES]||{{Ya}}

|?||{{Na}}

|[https://docs.libretro.com/library/snes9x_2005_plus/ Snes9x 2005 Plus]<ref name="SNES9x port" group="note">Snes9x 2005. Port of SNES9x 1.43 for libretro (was previously called CAT SFC).</ref>||{{Dunno}}||{{Yellow}} {{License|NC}}<br>{{License|GPLv2}}

|?||{{Na}}

=== [[:Category:Emulators by hardware|Emulators on other hardware]] ===

{| {{Emulator table}}

|[[Nintendo Switch Online|Nintendo Classics]]

([[L-CLASSICS]])

| align="left" |{{Icon|Switch|Switch2}}||{{Ya}}

|5.0.0||{{Red}} {{License|Proprietary}}

|Game-dependent||{{Ya}}

|Game-dependent||{{Ya}}

| align="left" |{{Icon|GBA|GCWZero}}||{{Na}}

|[https://web.archive.org/web/20230308183855/https://www.pocketsnes.net/files/pocketsnes.zip Beta]

[https://github.com/gameblabla/pocketsnes-nspire git]

 

[https://github.com/gameblabla/PocketSNES git]

|?||{{Ya}}

| align="left" |{{Icon|3DS}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/bubble2k16/snes9x_3ds/releases stable]

[https://github.com/matbo87/snes9x_3ds/tags git]

|?||{{Ya}}

|SnemulDS

| align="left" |{{Icon|NDS}}||{{~}}

|[https://github.com/cotodevel/snemulds GitHub]||{{Green}} {{License|GPLv2}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|{{Emulator compatibility (unofficial)|77|3108}}

{{Emulator compatibility|77|175|link=https://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/SNEmulDS_Compatibility_List}}

|?||{{~}}

|[https://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?t=48157 Snes9xTYL Mod]

| align="left" |{{Icon|PSP}}||{{Na}}

|[https://github.com/esmjanus/snes9xTYL/releases git]||{{Yellow}} {{License|NC}}

|{{Emulator compatibility (unofficial)|27|3108}}

{{Emulator compatibility|27|38|link=https://www.psdevwiki.com/psp/Snes9xTYL#Compatibility}}

|?||{{~}}

| align="left" |{{Icon|DC}}||{{Ya}}

|[http://www.dcemulation.org/files/emulators/dreamsnes/dreamsnes-0.9.8.zip 0.9.8]||{{Yellow}} {{License|NC}}

|?||{{~}}

| align="left" |{{Icon|NDS}}||{{~}}

|N/A||{{Red}} {{License|Proprietary}}

|?||{{~}}

| align="left" |{{Icon|Nspire}}||{{Na}}

|[https://web.archive.org/web/20230308183855/https://www.pocketsnes.net/files/pocketsnes.zip Beta]

[https://github.com/gameblabla/pocketsnes-nspire git]

 

[https://github.com/gameblabla/PocketSNES git]

|?||{{~}}

| align="left" |{{Icon|Vita|NX}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/Cpasjuste/pemu/releases 6.6]||{{Green}} {{License|GPLv3}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|?||{{~}}

| align="left" |{{Icon|PS2}}||{{Na}}

|0.2.6c||{{Dunno}}

|?||{{~}}

| align="left" |{{Icon|Xbox360}}||{{Na}}

|[http://download.digiex.net/Consoles/Xbox360/Jtag/SNES360betaV0.21.rar 0.21 beta]||{{Dunno}}

|?||{{~}}

| align="left" |{{Icon|Saturn}}||{{Dunno}}

|[http://www.rockin-b.de/saturn/snes9x/snes9x-on-saturn-060729.7z Saturn 06/07/29]||{{Yellow}} {{License|NC}}

|?||{{~}}

| align="left" |{{Icon|Xbox}}||{{Na}}

|[https://digiex.net/threads/snes9x-x-0-23-download-snes-emulator-for-xbox.13688 0.23]||{{Yellow}} {{License|NC}}

|High||{{~}}

| align="left" |{{Icon|PS5}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/BrinooTk/SnesC0re/releases git]||{{Dunno}}

|?||{{~}}

| align="left" |{{Icon|N64}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/Hydr8gon/sodium64 git]||{{Green}} {{License|GPLv3}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|?||{{~}}

| align="left" |{{Icon|3DS}}||{{Ya}}

|[http://blargsnes.kuribo64.net/ 1.4]

[https://github.com/Arisotura/blargSnes git]

|{{Emulator compatibility (unofficial)|474|3108}}

{{Emulator compatibility|474|713|link=https://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/BlargSnes_Compatibility_List}}

|?||{{Na}}

| align="left" |{{Icon|GP32|Zodiac}}||{{Na}}

|[http://yoyofr92.free.fr/os9xgp/html/downloads.html 0.3beta]||{{Yellow}} {{License|NC}}

|High||{{Na}}

=== [[FPGA]] ===

{| {{Emulator table}}

|[[MiSTer]]||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/SNES_MiSTer#features Cycle]||{{Ya}}

=== Remaster-at-Runtime Engines ===

{| {{Emulator table}}

|+A Remaster-at-Runtime (RaR) Engine is a specialized sub-layer of an emulator that intercepts a game’s original internal data such as draw calls, tile indexes, or audio triggers and replaces them with high-fidelity assets in real-time. Unlike standard emulators that focus on hardware accuracy, RaR Engines prioritize aesthetic transformation, effectively "remastering" the game while it is being played without modifying the original ROM file. While asset replacement capable emulators (like bsnes-hd) allow for high-definition visuals, true Remaster-at-Runtime Engines are distinguished by their ability to do more such as procedurally transform the game's original logic (e.g., converting 2D tiles into 3D voxels or applying dynamic lighting to 16-bit environments). Recommended to see [[Game engine recreations and source ports]] page.

| align="left" |{{Icon|Windows|macOS|Linux|Android}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://www.zsnes.com/ {{SuperZSNESVer}}]

[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zsnes.superzsnes Google Play]

|Full Cycle||{{TBD}}

== Descriptions ==

 

* The codifier of [[Emulation Accuracy|emulation accuracy]]. It should play all commercially released games without trouble, assuming you have the power. Ares and higan are [[Emulation accuracy#Full cycle-accuracy|fully cycle-accurate]] emulators but bsnes is [[Emulation accuracy#Partial cycle-accuracy|partially cycle-accurate]].

:* A highly robust and flexible [[Shader Presets|shader chain]] system completely separate from the core.

 

* Supports [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulators#Enhancements|RetroAchievements]].

 

* Supports [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulators#Enhancements|RetroAchievements]].

 

:* It also lacks many of the updates to edge cases, such as ''A.S.P. Air Strike Patrol'', one of two games notorious for manipulating the PPU mid-scanline. It also has problems rendering text, flickering lines near the bottom, and displaying shadows during flight.

 

* There are systems Mednafen emulates well and very accurately, but the SNES is not one of them. At that point, you would be better off using standalone bsnes.

 

 

* Support for the Super NES Mouse was added in version 5.0.0, alongside the Nintendo Classics rebranding and ''Mario Paint''.

 

 

* One of the most [[History of emulation#NES|legendary and popular emulator back in the early emulation software era]] but nowadays, it's the least [[Emulation Accuracy|accurate]] among the active popular emulators, though it is still relevant for many reasons, including:

 

* In more recent years has fallen out of favor as it is closed-source and no longer updated.

== Enhancements ==

{| {{Basic table}}

! colspan="2" style="width:50%" |Name

!ares

!bsnes

!MesenCE

!Snes9x

| rowspan="2" |Audio

|[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulators#Alternative audio interpolation methods|Alternative audio interpolation methods]]||{{Dunno}}

|[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulators#Higher sample rates|Higher sample rates]]||{{Dunno}}

| rowspan="5" |Graphics

|[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulators#High-Resolution Affine Transformations|High-resolution affine transformations]]||{{Dunno}}

|{{Enhancements/Graphics/Remove sprite limit|The SNES has hardware support for up to [https://www.vg-resource.com/thread-28888.html 128 sprites.] – this limitation is indirectly responsible for some of the flickering seen in games at times and different strategies must be used to achieve certain game design elements. When this option is enabled, the limit is disabled, allowing more sprites to be drawn on the same line.}}

|[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulators#Sprite Replacement|Sprite replacement]]||{{Ya}}

|[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulators#Widescreen hacks|Widescreen hacks]]||{{Ya}}

| rowspan="3" |Input

|[[Input lag|Preemptive frames]]||{{Dunno}}

|{{~}}<ref name="RA" group="note">Exclusive to libretro core. Also RetroAchievements [https://docs.libretro.com/guides/retroachievements/#snes exclusive to the Mesen-S, some bsnes, and snes9x libretro cores] and older [https://github.com/RetroAchievements/RASnes9x modified version of snes9x].</ref>

|[[Input lag|Run-ahead]]||{{Ya}}

|[https://docs.retroachievements.org/general/tutorials/turbo-button.html Turbo button]||{{Ya}}

| rowspan="3" |[[Overclocking|Overclock]]

|[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulators#Extra Scanlines, SuperFX and SA-1|Extra scanlines]]||{{Dunno}}

|[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulators#Extra Scanlines, SuperFX and SA-1|SA-1]]||{{Dunno}}

|[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulators#Extra Scanlines, SuperFX and SA-1|Super FX]]||{{Dunno}}

| rowspan="4" |Post-processing

|{{Enhancements/Post-processing/AI-powered filter}}||{{Dunno}}

|{{Enhancements/Post-processing/Filters}}||{{Ya}}

|[[High dynamic range#Inverse tone mapping|Inverse tone mapping compatible]]||{{Dunno}}

|{{Enhancements/Post-processing/Shader chain}}||{{Ya|link=https://github.com/ares-emulator/ares/pull/1397}}

|{{~}}<ref name="RA" group="note" />

|{{~}}<ref name="RA" group="note" />

|{{~}}<ref name="RA" group="note" />

| rowspan="12" |Quality of life

|{{Enhancements/Quality of life/Automatic emulated controller connect/disconnect}}

|Automatic updater||{{Dunno}}

|[[Frontends#Graphical User Interfaces .28GUIs.29|Big Picture Mode]]||{{Ya}}

|{{~}}<ref name="RA" group="note" />

|{{~}}<ref name="RA" group="note" />

|{{~}}<ref name="RA" group="note" />

|Built-in [[Cheats and patches|cheat manager]]||{{Ya|link=https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1ay6fm1/ares_v136_released/krslaki/}}

| colspan="4" |Exclusive to [https://docs.libretro.com/guides/crtswitchres/ libretro cores] and [[GroovyMAME]] at the moment.

Also there is a [https://github.com/psakhis/Groovy_MiSTer project] for achieving software emulators like libretro cores and GroovyMAME send the raw RGB data over a network to a core running on MiSTer, it basically turns the MiSTer into a GPU for the emulator allowing for easy setup and use with CRT TVs/Arcade monitors.

|Built-in [[Mods, hacks and fan-translations#Built-in mod editor and manager for emulators|mod editor and manager]]||{{Dunno}}

|Built-in [[Cheats and patches|patch manager]]||{{Dunno}}

|Command-line options||{{Dunno}}

|Pause/Resume emulation||{{Ya}}

|Per-game profiles||{{Dunno}}

|{{~}}<ref name="RA" group="note" />

|{{Enhancements/Quality of life/Portable and stealth}}

|[[Save disk space for ISOs|Streamable compression format]]||{{Dunno}}

| rowspan="6" |[https://tasvideos.org/Emulatorresources/Features TAS features]

|Fast forward/Turbo speed||{{Dunno}}

|{{Enhancements/TAS features/Frame step}}

|Macros/Scripts/[https://tasvideos.org/LuaScripting Lua]||{{Dunno}}

|[https://tasvideos.org/Movies Movie recording/playback]||{{Dunno}}

|Rewind||{{Dunno}}

|Save states||{{Dunno}}

| rowspan="10" |Misc.

|{{Enhancements/Misc./Ambient sounds simulation}}

|{{Enhancements/Misc./Audio filters and presets}}

|Debug features||{{Ya}}

|[[Virtual reality#VR game room simulations|EmuVR support]]

|[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulators#MSU-1|MSU-1]]||{{Ya}}

|{{Enhancements/Misc./Netplay|SNES|Should not be confused with BS-X or XBAND modem emulation, see [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulators#Peripherals|peripherals]] section for more information.}}

|[https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1djp8ro/ares_v139_release/l9ckjp2/ roadmap]||{{~}}<ref name="RA" group="note" />

|{{~}}<ref name="RA" group="note" />

|{{~}}<ref name="RA" group="note" />

|{{Enhancements/Misc./Rich Presence}}

|{{Enhancements/Misc./Screen translator}}

=== MSU-1 ===

 

To load the MSU-1 patched games with Snes9x: (See [https://docs.libretro.com/library/snes9x/#msu-1-support this page] for libretro core version)

 

=== Extra Scanlines, SuperFX and SA-1 ===

Existing SNES emulators sometimes allowed overclocking the SNES CPU by a fixed amount, but it was done in a way that would either increase the video and audio rate, or break games. bsnes and Mesen-S now feature a new way of overclocking that comes from the NES emulation scene: inserting additional scanlines into the CPU thread, without running the video and audio during this time. The result is a method of removing slowdown in just about any SNES game, without any framerate or pitch distortion, and without harming compatibility in 99% of games (even streaming audio games such as Tales of Phantasia work as expected.) SA-1 and SuperFX can also be overclocked in this way. The other coprocessors (DSP-1, Cx4, etc.) support HLE which results in all of their operations occurring.<ref>[https://gbatemp.net/threads/bsnes-and-mesen-s-add-newly-developed-snes-overclocking-method.545475/ bsnes and Mesen-S add newly developed SNES overclocking method]</ref>

=== High-Resolution Affine Transformations ===

* High resolution: The scaled backgrounds are rendered with subpixel precision at a higher resolution compared to the rest of the game's graphics. This may cause visual discrepancies between both.

* Supersampling: Acts like a sort of antialiasing for Mode 7. All graphics are rendered with the same pixel size, though scaled backgrounds are rendered in a higher resolution, then processed back to the same resolution as the rest of the image for a more uniform look. Used to be the only option in bsnes.

* Widescreen: Later added by bsnes-hd.

=== [[Texture packs#SNES|Sprite Replacement]] ===

No emulator support this at the moment, but a [https://github.com/DerKoun/bsnes-hd/issues/71 Feature request for bsnes-hd: Add custom sprite/texture dumping/injection support] exist.

=== [[Widescreen hacks#Super Nintendo|Widescreen hacks]] ===

A widescreen hack is an emulator feature that make older games playable on 16:9 aspect ratio. Some emulators like [[Bsnes#List of forks|bsnes-hd]] provide a widescreen hack option to make these games run at 16:9 properly (with the traditional pixel stretch for 4:3 CRT pixel or 1:1 raw pixel instead of black bars on each side or stretched to fill the screen).

: [https://retrogamecorps.com/2023/02/22/widescreen-snes-guide/ retrogamecorps: Widescreen SNES guide]

=== Mode 7 scaling bilinear filtering ===

=== Alternative audio interpolation methods ===

=== Higher sample rates ===

== Hardware features and peripherals ==

{| {{Basic table}}

|+Please only include recommended emulators in this table. Do not bump or spam GitHub threads, issues, or feature request pages.<br>

There weren't as many accessories that were released for the Super Nintendo compared to the [[Nintendo Entertainment System emulators#Hardware features and peripherals|NES]], but there are still quite a few to go over.

!ares

!bsnes

!MesenCE

!Snes9x

| rowspan="4" |Hardware features

| rowspan="3" |Cartridge enhancement chips

| colspan="2" |Official cartridge enhancement chips||{{Dunno}}

| colspan="2" |MSU-1 enhancement chip||{{Dunno}}

| colspan="3" |On-cartridge save batteries||{{Dunno}}