SNES / Super Famicom
SNES / Super Famicom Specifications
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES, Super Nintendo or Super NES), known in Japan as the Super Famicom, is a 16-bit video game console and Nintendo’s successor to the NES. It offered more advanced graphics and sound than most consoles of its generation, and games that used the Super FX chip in their cartridges could show 3D graphics that were unusually smooth and detailed for a home console at the time.
Despite a relatively late start and strong competition from Sega’s Mega Drive (Genesis) in North America and Europe, the SNES became the best-selling console of the 16-bit era. It stayed popular into the 32-bit era and remains a favourite with collectors, retro gamers and emulation fans.
The SNES is one of the most thoroughly emulated consoles, with several emulators able to run its entire library. Accuracy-focused emulators such as bsnes reproduce the original hardware very closely, down to its bugs and quirks, at the cost of higher system requirements.
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SNES / Super Famicom Emulators
ares is an open source multi-system emulator focused on accuracy and preservation, covering the NES, SNES, N64, Sega consoles and more. The successor to higan.
Mednafen is an open source multi-system emulator, controlled from the command line, known for accurate Sega Saturn and PlayStation emulation.
Mesen is an open source multi-system emulator for the NES, SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance and more, with a built-in debugger, for Windows, Linux and macOS.
bsnes is an open source Super Nintendo emulator originally developed by Near, focused on performance, features and ease of use, for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Snes9x is a fast, portable and open source Super Nintendo emulator with high compatibility, available for Windows, macOS, Linux and many other systems.
higan is a multi-system emulator by Near (formerly byuu), best known for its highly accurate SNES emulation, which puts accuracy ahead of speed.
ZSNES is a classic SNES emulator written largely in x86 assembly for speed. It is no longer developed and is less accurate than Snes9x or bsnes.
