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ZSNES

ZSNES

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Reviews
5 / 496
Downloads
2,866,865
Final version
1.51

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ZSNES is no longer developed. The links go to its final release, which is still on the developer’s own site. Its original developers now make Super ZSNES, a new emulator written from scratch.

ZSNES at a glance

What it is
A Super Nintendo emulator
Status
No longer developed
Final version
1.51
Open source
Yes
Licence
GPL
Ran on
Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and DOS
Official website
zsnes.com
Alternatives
Snes9x and OpenEmu

Description

ZSNES is a SNES games emulator for PC (also known as the Super Nintendo emulator or Super Nintendo Entertainment System) that runs on Microsoft Windows, DOS, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X (x86) and Microsoft Xbox (unofficial).

It is free software that helps you to play classic games that were running on the old Super Nintendo (SNES) game console (a 16-bit video game console that was very popular and was sold in nearly 50 million copies worldwide). It has a lot of features (e.g. speed options, fast-forward function, image upscaling, multiplayer gameplay using a TCP/IP network, use of cheats, save states support, movie recording etc.) that are best described in ZSNES Documentation (available as an HTML or TXT file) found in "docs" folder (after you extract the content of ZSNES archive). To be able to play older games that were available on ROM cartridge you need ROMs or ROM images with them.

Due to legal issues, ZSNES does not provide such files and in most countries, it is illegal to create copies of such games.

ZSNES Review

Please note: If ZSNES is not working for you, the authors recommend other SNES emulators such as Snes9x, SNEeSe, Super Sleuth, OpenEmu, higan, no$sns, SNesoid or bsne. You can actually find the entire list of them on Wikipedia in the section "Super Nintendo Entertainment System". Also, make sure that you read the entire documentation of ZSNES that will explain all features and GUI (software interface) options to you.

The program itself is completely free (under the terms of GNU General Public License Version 2).

ZSNES can emulate older games such as the entire list of Super Nintendo Entertainment System games found on Wikipedia.