I can run most Wii and PS2 games at a steady 40 FPS, and BSNES has yet to give me a problem with anything official, and the only 2 hacked game I've tried with it ran fine too.īut yeah, byuu's already stated that his goal is accuracy, and that it's his ideas that go into it rather than the public's. sfc extension (which all emulators support anyways) and maybe strip headers too, I don't remember.Īlso, if something's not working double-check your config or your ROM source.

Renaming the file to SFC is all that needs to be done for BSNES compatability, and last I knew the BSNES package contained an executable that would basically batch-'fix' ROMs - rename them to a. SMC was a dumped file from a particular brand of copier, and somehow that extension became the default for just about all SNES ROMs regardless of how they were dumped. The real SNES will not be around forever, and if we do not preserve it properly now, nobody ever will.Īnd please, the next time you hear someone espousing that the most popular SNES emulators are just as accurate as bsnes, ask them what drugs they are on for me, and link them here. Catering to the unfortunate poor and the technological luddites should not hinder the progress of our entire community, is all I'm saying. Focusing on accuracy will not harm the people reliant on faster emulators, they are free to use the older versions of these emulators for as long as their old hardware remains functional. Encourage other emulators to also care about accuracy, as I have been.

So if you have the system resources, why not put them to good use, and demand accurate emulation? I'm not even saying it should be bsnes. But why take the chance? You never know when an emulation bug is going to destroy your gameplay experience. Perhaps you don't play any of the above games, and none of these issues affect you. Currently, a refurbished system capable of running bsnes at full-speed will set you back $99USD. The system resources necessary for extremely accurate SNES emulation become cheaper and cheaper every day. Instead, it is to say that accurate emulators do in fact have merit of their own. This article is not meant to say that inaccurate emulators are without merit. They serve a specific niche: running on cell phones and handheld gaming systems, and conserving battery power when playing on the go.

I understand the appeal of speed-focused emulators.

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