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Snes9X is a portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator. It basically allows you to play most games designed for the SNES and Super Famicom Nintendo game systems on your PC or Workstation; which includes some real gems that were only ever released in Japan.

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  • goombapatrol expert
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    great super nintendo emulator.
    as always, roms are illegal to possess, but the emulator is fine.

  • jacko hoogeveen expert
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    best SNES emulator out there!!

    works good and fast. as a low budget retro gamer you should use this emulator.

    advice for other retro gamers:

    for good SNES games look at the "snes top 100 lists" just google it.

    and if you're tired of downloading every rom one at the time. there are some very good NES and SNES rom collections who you can download with torrents.

    btw: playing roms are illegal if you don't own the real cartridge and play it longer than 24 hours.

  • Mazep TGS fanatic
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    ZSNES uses a weird screen smoothing effect that you can't turn off without using undesirable screen resolutions, and more importantly its sound emulation is noticeably worse than SNES9X's.

    I've only played a handful of games that only work on ZSNES, and all of them are hacked/patched versions (the original clean versions always work with SNES9X). Compatibility is therefore not an issue.

    Other than the fact that the on-the-fly IPS patching doesn't work very well, and the cheat menu gets glitched up crazily sometimes when you modify/remove cheats, SNES9X is pretty much perfect.

  • PoisonedV overlord
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    zsnes >

  • Max Palumbo fanatic
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    I loved my SNES and it's still fun to play some of my old favorites every now and then. Best of all this uses little resources which means it dosen't kill by battery like other games. This makes it perfect when I'm on a plane.

  • AlbinoAsian fanatic
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    some of the playability of the old snes games were fantastic. The concepts might have been simple, the graphics short of what we would expect today, but there's something about SNES games that will always keep their appeal.

    As for the emulator you need to run them, this is the best by far

  • Bruno Alex fanatic

    Sim é o melhor emulador de Super Nintendo simples e fácil, mas só falta instalar aqui no computador quando tive um tempinho ;)

  • PyroDX expert
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    Best SNES emulator out there!

  • Jeremy Strickland expert
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    Fantastic SNES emulator. It feels much more modern than ZSNES and has historically had much better gamepad support.

  • Renato expert
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    Incrível emulador de Super Nintendo, tem uma interface muito boa.

    Todos deveriam jogar Super Mario World - Yoshi's Island uma vez [2].

  • pryor110 enthusiast

    Um, every time I click this it says "There are no downloads available yet." any can tell me why? O.o

  • skayme novice
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    A great emulator. Everybody should play Super Mario World, Yoshi's Island once time.

  • EMike08 expert
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    Easily the best of it's kind. Works wonderfully, with plenty of options to give you whatever nostalgia experience you desire.

  • conga devotee
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    awesome program, i love it!

  • Jimboo expert
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    Snes9x is a great little application that allows you to play Super Nintendo games on your computer in the format of .roms. So far I have played all those classic super mario games, zelda, starfox and others and it's great - no lagging, and it works on Windows Vista!

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Website: snes9x.com
Developer: The Snes9X team
License: Free
Version: 1.51
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Usage: 2 months, 1 week, 3 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes and 27 seconds
Usage since: 03 May 2007
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