bsnes is a Super Nintendo / Super Famicom emulator.
The emulator concentrates on performance, features, and ease of use.
bsnes is a subset project of higan. higan emulates a number of classic video-game consoles of the 1980s and 1990s, allowing you to play classic games on a modern general-purpose computer.
It does not include any game specific hacks, or idle-loop skipping optimizations commonly found in other emulators.
Features include:
- Choose different profiles: Accuracy, compatibility, or performance.
- Cycle accurate emulation.
- Multi-threaded PPU renderer to take advantage of multi-core CPUs.
- Direct loading of ROM files without the library or game folders.
- Support for DSP1, DSP2, DSP3, DSP4, OBC1, SA1, SDD1, SPC7110, SRTC, ST010, and SuperFX custom chips.
- Video filter, which allows you to “upscale” Super Nintendo games. Choose from None, Pixellate2x, Scale2x, 2xSaI, Super 2xSaI, Super Eagle, LQ2x, HQ2x, and NTSC.
- Smooth video output.
- Video modes: Scale 1x, Scale 2x, Scale 3x, Scale4x, Scale5x, correct aspect ratio, NTSC, and PAL.
- Emulation speed: Slowest, slow, normal, fast, and fastest.
- Full sound.
- Automatic input configuration.
- Cheat editor.
- Cheat finder.
- State manager.
- Effect toggle.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows.
Website: www.bannister.org/software/bsnes.htm
Support: GitLab code repository
Developer: byuu
License: GNU General Public License version 3
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