What is Reddit's opinion of Snes9x?

Yongzh claims to have paid the developer of gpSP for a license, and actually did. Yongzh also claims to have paid the snes9x developers, but did not. Yongzh never had any agreement with the Mupen64Plus developers, and tried to hide the origin of the code.

Higan and Snes9x both support local multiplayer, You can bind both controllers to the keyboard or separate game pads. If your computer has a fast CPU, I'd recommend Higan over Snes9x. I don't know of any emulators that support networked multiplayer, but I do know that it would be a laggy unpleasant experience unless you are both on the same LAN.

Some of the greatest RPG games were on the Super Nintendo for me.

Earthbound!!!
Super Mario RPG
Final Fantasy 3 (us)
Chrono Cross
Secret of Mana
The Witcher 3
Skyrim
Dragon Age: Inquisition

One of the greatest thing about games for systems like the Super Nintendo, PS1 and the rest are that all the games can be found as rom's, which are free and easy to download. Even better is that the emulators like Snes9x can use controllers for the games. I use the Xbox One controller at times for PC gaming and that controller works great for playing the older school console games.

Hi. I suspected it was due to violations. ZodTTD has repeatedly violated the GPL in the past.

Yongzh and ZodTTD are suspiciously related.

Yongzh has given some source code out. But the readme's state a non commercial license, for Gensoid and SNESOID (I think).

Further, with Snesoid, this forum thread paints Yongzh in a pretty bad light. http://www.snes9x.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=4454&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=20&sid=a8dac27d2ca475c0a10297227a6b58b7

Starting out on Arch is a bit brave, I'd recommend Debian myself.
Anyway, according to the wiki you can get the necessary developer tools by installing base-devel through the package manager: that should give you gcc, automake, configure and other essential packages. The compilation procedure for SNES-9x is detailed in readme-unix.html found under unix/docs, though all it says is to run ./configure --help for more info.
That should be enough to get you started, if you get stuck you can always ask on the SNES9x forums, I see posts from other Linux users there and I'm sure they'd love to help you.

To play Super Metroid on PC, you will need:

- An emulator

- A rom file of the game

I cannot help you on the second. I'm fairly sure that some mod or admin will bring a banhammer down if I spread illegal files such as that.

But I can totally help if you need an emulator. SNES9x is a very fine emulator that I would recommend.

>He contacted the main programmer and asked for permission, received it and was given source

I'd actually like a source for that. I hadn't heard that. In fact, I had heard that the SNES9x author was a little peeved about it (although I don't have a source for that).

Point is, he is still violating the GPL on the rest of his emulators, since the source he released in January is obviously not up to date with any releases he has made since then.

Edit

I was able to find this. Apparently Yong did not use the copy that the original author sent, so he's still not in compliance. Because, contrary to what you said, he does need permission from every SNES9x author to sell it. The license says you need permission from the copyright holder*s*. Yong was sent a copy of the code by Gary that was 100% Gary's. But the code posted by Yong on github at one point did not contain that code. Besides, another author indicates Gary has no final say, as he is not the sole copyright holder on SNES9x.

You, sir, are an absolute genius!!!! Changing topics, I was looking at the battlefront 2 script and in the nucleus script details window, Talos91 mentions that "Xbox One gamepads have issues because of this: http://www.snes9x.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?t=27510" Is this a common problem with older games in nucleuscoop or is SWBF2 an anomaly?

I suggest Snes9x for its high accuracy and low required specs. If you need something for non-desktop platforms, try the recommended emulators in this page. For the ROMs, use the megathread the automod linked.

Older systems are simpler. Like if you want to emulate SNES, just download Snes9x and load up a rom. The hard part is finding roms as rom sites are regularly targeted by Nintendo for hosting copyrighted material. But they're always available somehow.

There's an all-in-one emulator program called RetroArch that is a bit more complicated but also a lot more powerful. It allows you to emulate many different systems using a different downloadable core for each one.

You can also emulate games on a phone. There are a bunch of emulator apps for Android that give you on screen controls. Not as good as a real gamepad but perfect for stuff like Pokemon.

The recommended snes emulators are:

Higan
Snes9x

Higan is the best if you want to ensure that the game runs as if it were played on a proper super nintendo, however older computers run games very slowly. On the other hand snes9x is less accurate, but is a lot faster and overall easier to use.

To play the translated game however, you will need to apply your patch to a rom file, most patches for snes games are in *.ips format, which you need to apply to the rom file itself (not the *.zip you'll usually download). There are a lot of different roms, be sure to match the region and rom version you use. If you're unsure, go for a verified good dump, marked with an [!]. Because downloading rom files is illegal in most countries, I cannot link to the file, the only thing I can say is that google is your friend.

Note: Some older patches for snes games were made for zsnes, this is a highly dangerous emulator, because a malicious rom file run through zsnes can do serious damage to your computer.

My vote goes towards grabbing an emulator like snes9x, and then finding some great older games like:

Final Fantasy VI
Earthbound
Chrono Trigger
Secret of Mana
Super Mario RPG
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Illusion of Gaia
E.V.O.: Search for Eden
Robotrek
Harvest Moon

Go to http://www.snes9x.com/ and download snes9x, that is the emulator you can use to play SNES games. Then you just need some roms. I can't tell you where to get them, but you can find some by doing a Google search. Snes roms should have a file extension of smc or sfc. If you load them directly from snes9x you shouldn't have any problems with malware. Don't download or execute anything that is an exe or bat file.

ZSNES typically isn't allowed for speedruns

Snes9x is a popular emulator

Bizhawk gets use too

SMW ROMs are not a good idea to link directly though, but they're not hard to find

Higan (formerly known as bsnes). It is literally, 100% bug free and perfectly accurate. It's the only emulator that can play Speedy Gonzales through to completion. All other emulators crash about halfway through when you hit a switch. Ars Technica has a great article about this emulator, and what makes it so much better than Zsnes. Higan has some hefty system requirements though. Perfect accuracy in an emulator isn't cheap. You will want at least a 3.0GHz CPU to play games with Higan. If your computer isn't up for that, then I would recommend Snes9x. It's still leaps and bounds ahead of Zsnes but can run on most hardware you will find out there.

First of all, in order to translate the ROM file, use this.

As for emulator, SNES9x and ZSNES are the best. SNES9x has a few more features and is a little less buggy with UPS / IPS patching, while ZSNES generally runs more smoothly, from my experience.

Finally, if you get stuck I find that www.serenesforest.net/fe4/ is your best resource for information on pairings, map info and items.

FE4's a tricky game to get into, but I'd say that it's one of the most gripping story-wise, after FE10.

I know I'm late as hell but Snes9x just got an xBrz version. For those that don't know, it's used here to rescale your game to much higher resolutions while looking as natural as possible.

Here's a link if you want to see.

EDIT: Forgot to post the actual link.

http://www.snes9x.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15191

Since there are a lot of folks here lamenting the state of the Metroid series, I thought I should post

this

This is a fan remake of Super Metroid. It is bigger, longer, and harder than the original. It is a truly excellent game. To play it you need a Super Nintendo emulator, and the original Super Metroid ROM. You then put the patch in the same directory as the original ROM, turn on autopatching in the emulator (may be on by default) and just start it up.

Enjoy.

Here is the ZNES emulator
Here is the SNES9x emulator (I prefer it over ZNES because its the one I've always used)
and Here is the Kirby Superstar ROM (From the first google search result site. Didn't test link myself)

If anyone is interested in soft-modding their Wii or PSP to run emulators up to and including N64 and PSX just ask.

The devs knew about it earlier in the year.

> Jerremy wrote:
> I'll straighten this out and make him either distribute his work for free, or not at all. If needed I'll even stick a lawyer on it, since I can't stand people profiting off other people's work (let alone my own).

It seems plausible they were the cause.

If you are using xbox one gamepads they have issues with focus/background input in Unity games that use Unity's default input for gamepad support, because of this: http://www.snes9x.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?t=27510

If someone come across to this post, we resolved the issue via pms.

For make XboxOne controllers works with more than 4 gamepads you need to change their driver like said here.

Then you just need to set Game.Hook.XInputReroute on true in the NucleusCoop\scripts\Star Wars Battlefront 2 (Classic, 2005).js file.

Now the problem is that XboxOne controllers will register triggers as different buttons so they will not be recognized like before. So, be sure to enter on a different profile on each instance, go to the controllers/keys settings, delete the primary/secondary attack field and remap them. If I remember correctly, LT is register as Z+ while RT as ZR+ . Be sure to not have other commands mapped on these fields.

This is a problem only for XboxOne controllers.

Is a limitation of the XboxOne controllers. When in Dinput mode you must click/alt-tab the instance that use this type of gamepads. I just copy paste what I write in my scripts

"With more than 4 controllers, you can use only ONE XboxOne controller and you can't use at the same time the keyboard. You must click/alt+tab on the corresponding instance to make it work. In alternative you can try fix the problem by doing this http://www.snes9x.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?t=27510 or try Xoutput."

Does "-port1 mouse" work? It sounds like the switch was implemented quite some time ago.

http://www.snes9x.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?t=24716

Though I would honestly be wary of emulating anything on a machine that old.

Sounds like your (proprietary?) video card may be too weak if it's blacking out upon FS? Hopefully not.

Try Mesen-S, bsnes, or snes9x, your preference pending, loads easier than dealing with any front-end & its quirks.

They all work with DS4's IME.

I personally would go with either snes9x or Retroarch (This is basically one big emulator with a whole bunch of emulators inside it.) because they are pretty good. :)

ZSNES was a great emulator back in the day, but there are emulators nowadays that are leaps and bounds better. The easiest to use is Snes9x, but an even more accurate ones is bsnes, just is much more demanding on the CPU though that was 9 years ago so any modern CPU is just fine.

Okay, this thread is derailing in real time.