There are other places that can be improved as well, especially in the sound hardware which snes9x is still fairly inaccurate with at times.Īgain though, no one's stopping from working on snes9x. Snes9x and zSNES are both very fast but also take hacks and shortcuts where ever they can for a speed boost. What a waste of time and energy.Īccuracy. Why not just buy a super nintendo if you're that concerned about totally accurate emulation?Īnd I'd appreciate not being talked down to just because I call bullpopsnizzle on spending half a decade working on an SNES emulator that won't work on anything but the highest end macintosh. No seriously, someone explain to me why you would truly want cycle exact emulation of a super nintendo that requires a multi-thousand dollar machine to achieve? For more about the emulator, and a handful of screenshots from the Mac version, check out the links below. The Mac version of bsnes should be available in the next few days. (Performance gain from frame skipping in bsnes is relatively speaking negligible). Testing on the fastest production G4 system out there has shown that the emulator can just about scrape full speed but only rendering one frame in four, so you're not missing much. I know if I do not do this then the many who do not read documentation will contact me to whine about performance, or more likely rant about my inadequacy on review sites. Full frame rate in bsnes will require a G5 running at a minimum speed of 2.3GHz.Īs such, it is with considerable reluctance that I have decided to make bsnes require the presence of a G5 chip to run.

The net result is without question the most system heavy emulator ever to be released on this web site. It uses a cycle exact hardware emulation, along the lines of that used by Nestopia, and it does not use any special hacks to improve emulation performance at the expense of accuracy. Bsnes has been developed for accuracy over speed.

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