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! scope="col"|Name

! scope="col"|Version

! scope="col"|[[libretro|Libretro Core]]

! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]

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|Cycle

| {{✓}}

| {{✓}}

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|[[Snes9x]]

|[https://sites.google.com/site/bearoso/ {{Snes9xVer}}]

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|-

|[[higan]]

| {{✓}}

|Cycle

| {{✓}}

| {{✓}}

|-

| {{✓}}

| {{✓}}

| {{✗}}

|-

|[[Higan#nSide|nSide]] (forked higan)

|[https://github.com/hex-usr/nSide/releases v009r16]

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|[[Higan#bsnes-classic|bsnes-classic]]<br/><small>(forked bsnes Qt)</small>

|[http://github.com/sharknnth/bsnes-classic/releases v073u7]

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|[[BizHawk]] (bsnes v087)

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

| {{✗}}

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|lsnes

|[http://tasvideos.org/Lsnes.html rr2-β23] <br /> [http://repo.or.cz/w/lsnes.git Git]

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| {{✓}}

| {{✗}}

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|[[Mednafen]] (bsnes v059)

|[{{MednafenURL|releases/}} {{MednafenVer}}]

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|[[No$|NO$SNS]]

|[http://problemkaputt.de/sns.htm 1.6]

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|[[MAME]]

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

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|[[Silhouette]]

|[https://www.zophar.net/fileuploads/1/816uajag/Silhouette.sit.hqx 1.0]

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|[[ZSNES]]

|[http://zsnes.com 1.51]

| {{✗}}

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|[[CATSFC]]

|[https://github.com/ShadauxCat/CATSFC 1.36]

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| {{✗}}

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|Snes9x EX+

| {{✗}}

|High

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|[[Snes9x]] Next

|1.53

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|Snes8x<br/><small>(Different from 'Snes9x')</small><br/><small>(Snes9x based)</small>

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

| {{✗}}

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|[http://yoyofr92.free.fr/ Little John]<br /><small>(Snes9x 1.39 based)</small>

|[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]

| {{✗}}

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|Snes9x EX

|1.5.34

| {{✗}}

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|[http://www.superretro16.com/ SuperRetro16]

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bubblezapgames.supergnes 1.7.11]

| {{✗}}

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|[[CATSFC]]

|1.36

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|[http://yoyofr92.free.fr/ OpenSnes9x]

|[http://yoyofr92.free.fr/os9xgp/html/downloads.html 0.3beta]

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|[[Virtual Console]]

|N/A

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|0.2.6c

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|[[Snes9x]] Next

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|Mid

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|[https://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?t=48157 Snes9xTYL Mod]<br /><small>(Snes9x 1.39 based)</small>

|[https://github.com/esmjanus/snes9xTYL/releases 180404]

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|[[CATSFC]]

|1.36

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|[[Snes9x]] for 3DS

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

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|blargSNES*

|[http://blargsnes.kuribo64.net/ 1.3b]

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|Low

* There ''are'' systems Mednafen emulates well and very accurately, but the SNES is not exactly one of them. At that point, it's worth using bsnes or its libretro cores instead.

:''See also [[ZSNES#Review|the review]].''

* The least accurate of the bunch but still relevant for many reasons.

** Many ROM hacks were often designed around (let alone possible, simply because of) its problems, and would often break on anything else.

** It had tons of bugs and lacked certain operations for less notable games that needed them. Some testing also showed it didn't synchronize the components as often as other newer emulators would.

* It has [[ZSNES#Netplay|surprisingly good netplay]].

* Sports an interesting but polarizing graphical user interface; it's either loved, or it's despised by the community.

* Viable alternatives are bZSNES (for ZSNES-centric rom hacks), ZMZ (for the UI), NO$SNS or older versions of Snes9x (for speed boosts tailored to old systems). Otherwise, choose any of the others like bsnes/higan and Snes9x (for better compatibility).

'''Detailed round-ups of the best SNES emulators:'''

* [https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/best-snes-emulators/ The best SNES emulators available] (August 16, 2018) (Don't use ZSNES)

* '''Widescreen:''' Later added by bsnes-hd.

With certain settings, there is heavy aliasing which we can reduce by increasing the sampling rate.

Many of these games had Soundlink features and would have assets like streamed music and voice acting, as well as some extra data, but these have been lost forever outside of video recordings and OST releases. These games will likely play without music on your emulator. The entirely fan-made MSU-1 feature on the higan emulator tries to replicate the BS-X Satellaview and unreleased SNES-CD concept for streamed music in SNES games far beyond the maximum cartridge capacity (12MB), but it's not the same thing.

bsnes-sx2 and snes9x-sx2 are recommended. They use your PC clock with no option to modify it, though. SNESGT had the option to modify the clock, but it wasn't updated for a while and isn't really recommended for SNES emulation in general. No$SNS has good BS-X emulation (and the best debugger tools for ROM hackers and translators) but falls behind the others when it comes to general emulation.

Whenever you open a BS-X compatible ROM (that wasn't modified to behave like a normal SNES game, like most BS Zelda translations were), you'll be greeted by the BIOS software. It will ask you to choose your name and avatar, which you can control in a city. Of course, the St-GIGA broadcast service went defunct in 2000, so the big radio tower will just give you a "Hello Satellaview" test broadcast. However, you may be interested in seeing how Nintendo used to do loading screens. To see them without them shutting down instantly, open <code>BSX0001-47.bin</code> (bsxdat folder) in a hex editor and change offset <code>0x06</code> from <code>0x30</code> to <code>0x00</code>. Most houses will be closed, though.

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! scope="col"|Name

! scope="col"|Version

! scope="col"|BS-X Emulation

! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]

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|[[higan]] (bsnes)

|[http://byuu.org/higan/ {{higanVer}}]

|Cycle

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|[[Higan|bsnes]]

|[http://bsxproj.superfamicom.org/archive.htm sx2 v009] (based on v082)

|Cycle

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|[[Snes9x]]

|[http://bsxproj.superfamicom.org/archive.htm sx2 0.02] (based on 1.53)

|High

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|NO$SNS

|[http://problemkaputt.de/sns.htm 1.6]

|Mid

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|[[BizHawk]] (bsnes v087)

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

|Cycle

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|[[Mednafen]] (bsnes v059)

|[{{MednafenURL|releases/}} {{MednafenVer}}]

|High

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|SNESGT

|[http://www.zophar.net/snes/snesgt.html 2.18 (2007)]

|Mid

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"

|-

! scope="col"|Name

! scope="col"|Version

! scope="col"|Data Pack Emulation

! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]

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|[[Snes9x]]

|[http://bsxproj.superfamicom.org/archive.htm sx2 0.02] (based on 1.53)

|Mid

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|[[Higan|bsnes]]

|[http://bsxproj.superfamicom.org/archive.htm sx2 v009] (based on v082)

|Low

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"

|-

! scope="col"|Name

! scope="col"|Version

! scope="col"|SNES-CD (Sony)

! scope="col"|[[Emulation Accuracy|Accuracy]]

! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]

|-

|[[No$|NO$SNS]]

|[http://problemkaputt.de/sns.htm 1.6]

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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"

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! scope="col"|Name

! scope="col"|Version

! scope="col"|MSU-1

! scope="col"|[[Emulation Accuracy|Accuracy]]

! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]

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|[[higan]]

|[http://byuu.org/higan/ {{higanVer}}]

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|[[Higan|bsnes]]

|[http://byuu.org/higan/ {{higanVer}}]

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|[[Snes9x]]

|[http://www.snes9x.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24351 {{Snes9xVer}}]

| {{✓}}