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Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator

Welcome to SUPER ZSNES

The two original developers of ZSNES are finally back together! Introducing SUPER ZSNES! Re-written completely from scratch, this GPU-powered SNES emulator is here to bring you the following: some of what is familiar, some of what's new, and then some of what goes beyond.

Key Features

  • Far more accurate CPU and Audio cores than the original ZSNES
  • GPU-powered PPU core to allow for hi-res Mode 7 and special per-game enhancement features
  • Classic UI with falling snow, modernized with higher definition and improved UX
  • Fast forward, rewind, save states, auto save history, save bookmarks, cheat codes, quick load, and more
  • No Vibe Coding. Classic development style.
  • Super Enhancement Engine, where the ZSNES developers are enhancing the games one at a time

Super Enhancement Engine

Currently implemented with support for 7 popular games. Support for more games will keep increasing as this emulator is in development.

  • High Resolution - Not just an auto upscalar, but an internal drawing program is used to make sure that the higher resolution details can be manually drawn to look nice and crisp.
  • Texture/Normal Map - Adds some nice details to the backgrounds to give them a higher resolution look.
  • Overclock - Select games often filled with slowdown are overclocked.
  • Wide Screen (where available) - We enable widescreen whenever the game is internally coded to support partial or full widescreen.
  • Uncompressed Audio Replacement - We curate and pick uncompressed audio samples to replace original highly compressed audio samples.
  • 3D - Currently only supported on perspective-style Mode 7, replaces tiles with 3D height mapped data.
  • All enhancements can be individually disabled to suit your play style.

Note: Enhancement data contains no ROM or copyrighted data. You will need to provide the ROMs. Do not ask the developers for ROMs.

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What's Coming

  • Bug fixes
  • Special chip emulation (DSP1, SuperFX, etc.)
  • More optimization work
  • More types of enhancements
  • Netplay
  • Other features