Brittany Vincent/Digital Trends. SNES9x traces its roots back to two of the oldest emulators for the SNES. The early days of emulation are hazy, and a lot has been lost to the ether, but. Snes9x is a piece of software that allows you to enjoy those games on your Windows device. Developed in 1999, Snes9x is still one of the best emulators on the market, and regularly maintained as well. With the graphics filters, you can alter the appearance of the game you’re emulating. Some options include de-pixelating and coloring scanlines. Snes9x for 3DS is a high-compatibility SNES emulator for your Old 3DS / 2DS. It runs many games at full speed (60 fps). It supports games that use CX4 chip (Megaman X2/X3), and the SDD-1 chip (Star Ocean, Super Street Fighter 2 Alpha).
- OS: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
- Cost: Freeware
- Re-mappable keys: Yes
- Monitor orientation(s): Vertical or Horizontal See: Display Orientation
- Emulated System(s): Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom
- Known Game Compatability List: High degree of compatibility >90% no list at this time
- Homepage:http://www.Snes9x.com/
- Additional Requirements: Minimum for Snes9x to function is a Pentium 133 or comparable
What is Emulator?
'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.
Snes9x is the result of well over three years worth of part-time hacking, coding, recoding, debugging, divorce, etc. (just kidding about the divorce bit). Snes9x is coded in C++, with three assembler CPU emulation cores on the i386 Linux and Windows ports.
Currently there are many ports of Snes9x available' (SOURCE:http://www.Snes9x.com/)
How do I set it up?
This is a standalone emulator with a GUI just download and execute. The key to screen rotation is matching display resolution with the output of the emulator. The default for this emulator a menu is visible at startup. In a normal situation the escape key would hide this menu but most Mame™ machines employ the escape key to end the current emulation. This can be overcome with the use of a wrapper. With the use of a Wrapper Snes9x is a very stable seamless emulator for arcade machines.
NOTE: In version 1.51 a cfg setting was added to auto-hide the menu on start up a wrapper is still necessary in order to route the esc key to end the emulator.
How do I remove the top menu?
You do NOT need a wrapper to remove the topmenu on startup.
Since there is no option to remove in its GUI, you can open snes9x.cfg in Notepad, find the line hidemenu and set it to TRUE, and the topmenu is gone on startup.
Many fronted can route ESC to quit the emulator.
Command Line Parameters
Snes9x can be executed via the command line as follows:
Brief:
If you have the Snes9x pointed to a specific ROM directory <<Default './roms':
Snes9x supports compressed ROMs in zip, gzip and JMA format as follows:
Extensive:
Where <options> can be:
Display Orientation
NOTE: Microsoft Windows specific
- Untested under other operating systems
The key to the rotation of Snes9x emulation is screen resolution.
Normal horizontal desktop resolution:
Vertical Desktop resolution:
Snes9x Does not have a setting to rotate the display so you must specify a vertical resolution in the video settings of the emulator. This resolution must match the resolution of your desktop and your desktop must be rotated(videocard must support native desktop rotation). You can specify Snes9x to stretch to fit the given resolution, the distortion is unnoticeable. The vertical display modes can be set manually via the .cfg if you are using snes9x v1.51,. Else the display modes do not appear in the video setting of Snes9x until your desktop display is at a vertical resolution.
NOTE: Many emulators do not support rotated display to overcome this specify a vertical resolution in the video settings of said emulator.
See Also:
- OS: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
- Cost: Freeware
- Re-mappable keys: Yes
- Monitor orientation(s): Vertical or Horizontal See: Display Orientation
- Emulated System(s): Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom
- Known Game Compatability List: High degree of compatibility >90% no list at this time
- Homepage:http://www.Snes9x.com/
- Additional Requirements: Minimum for Snes9x to function is a Pentium 133 or comparable
What is Emulator?
'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.
Snes9x is the result of well over three years worth of part-time hacking, coding, recoding, debugging, divorce, etc. (just kidding about the divorce bit). Snes9x is coded in C++, with three assembler CPU emulation cores on the i386 Linux and Windows ports.
Currently there are many ports of Snes9x available' (SOURCE:http://www.Snes9x.com/)
How do I set it up?
This is a standalone emulator with a GUI just download and execute. The key to screen rotation is matching display resolution with the output of the emulator. The default for this emulator a menu is visible at startup. In a normal situation the escape key would hide this menu but most Mame™ machines employ the escape key to end the current emulation. This can be overcome with the use of a wrapper. With the use of a Wrapper Snes9x is a very stable seamless emulator for arcade machines.
NOTE: In version 1.51 a cfg setting was added to auto-hide the menu on start up a wrapper is still necessary in order to route the esc key to end the emulator.
How do I remove the top menu?
You do NOT need a wrapper to remove the topmenu on startup.
Since there is no option to remove in its GUI, you can open snes9x.cfg in Notepad, find the line hidemenu and set it to TRUE, and the topmenu is gone on startup.
Many fronted can route ESC to quit the emulator.
Command Line Parameters
Snes9x can be executed via the command line as follows:
Brief:
If you have the Snes9x pointed to a specific ROM directory <<Default './roms':
Snes9x supports compressed ROMs in zip, gzip and JMA format as follows:
Extensive:
Where <options> can be:
Display Orientation
NOTE: Microsoft Windows specific
- Untested under other operating systems
The key to the rotation of Snes9x emulation is screen resolution.
Normal horizontal desktop resolution:
Vertical Desktop resolution:
Snes9x Does not have a setting to rotate the display so you must specify a vertical resolution in the video settings of the emulator. This resolution must match the resolution of your desktop and your desktop must be rotated(videocard must support native desktop rotation). You can specify Snes9x to stretch to fit the given resolution, the distortion is unnoticeable. The vertical display modes can be set manually via the .cfg if you are using snes9x v1.51,. Else the display modes do not appear in the video setting of Snes9x until your desktop display is at a vertical resolution.
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NOTE: Many emulators do not support rotated display to overcome this specify a vertical resolution in the video settings of said emulator.