bsnes

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Bleeding Edge:

For those who wish to have the most up-to-date features, and do not mind a little instability; or for those who would just like to help out and perform some quality assurance testing; beta releases are periodically uploaded to Google Code. These archives contain all relevant source code, libraries and compiled binaries in one large meta-package.

Google Code - bsnes Download Page

Documentation:

License:

bsnes is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.

Minimum system requirements:

  • AMD Athlon 2600+ or Intel Core Solo
  • 64MB RAM free
  • Windows port: Windows XP or later, with DirectX 9.0c or later

Recommended system requirements:

  • AMD Phenom II or Core 2 Duo
  • Video card that supports Direct3D 9.0 or OpenGL 2.0
  • Linux port: hardware-accelerated video driver with OpenGL or X-Video support

Incompatible software:

The following three titles are unplayable, due to special on-cart DSPs whose program ROMs have not been extracted.

  • Hayazashi Nidan Morita Shougi 1 (uses ST-0011 co-processor)
  • Hayazashi Nidan Morita Shougi 2 (uses ST-0018 co-processor)
  • SD Gundam GX (uses DSP-3 co-processor)

Anything not in the above list is assumed to be fully compatible and bug-free.

Screenshots:


Legend of Zelda 3

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About:

bsnes is an emulator that began development on 2004-10-14. The purpose of this emulator is a bit different from others: it focuses on accuracy, debugging functionality, and clean code.

The emulator does not focus on things that would hinder accuracy. This includes speed and game-specific hacks for compatibility. As a result, the minimum system requirements for bsnes are very high.

The emulator itself was not derived from any existing emulator source code, such as SNES9x. It was written from scratch by myself. Any similarities to other emulators are merely coincidental.

Contributors:

I would like to acknowledge the invaluable contributions made to bsnes by the following individuals:

  • Andreas Naive
  • anomie
  • blargg
  • DMV27
  • FitzRoy
  • GIGO
  • Jonas Quinn
  • kode54
  • krom
  • Matthew Callis
  • Nach
  • neviksti
  • Overload
  • RedDwarf
  • Richard Bannister
  • tetsuo55
  • TRAC
  • zones