The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is one of the most powerful 16-bit consoles. The SNES used an extremely powerful graphics coprocessor able of generating real-time effects like scaling and transparency.

This release of SNES9X offers amazing emulation quality and performance, when compared to any other SNES emulator available today.

This version of SNES9X supports mouse input, TV Mode and GZ-compressed ROMs.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· IMPORTANT NOTICE: The structure of savestates (also known as snapshots / freeze files) is incompatible with older versions! Snes9x 1.52 cannot read the savestates created by 1.51 or older.
· Highly acculate SPC700 and S-DSP emulation.
· Replaced APU emulation cores (SPC700 and S-DSP) with ones provided by Blargg's SNES_SPC library. This renders savestates incompatible with older versions.
· SPC7110 emulation.
· Merged bsnes' SPC7110 emulation code. Note that the .rtc file of Far East of Eden Zero is incompatible with older versions.
· Removed graphics pack support. It's no more necessary.
· Replaced S-RTC emulation code with bsnes' one to keep the good compatibility of .rtc files between the two emulators. As a result, Daikaijuu Monogatari 2 now outputs the .rtc file, and its .srm file is incompatible with older versions.
· Added savestate supports for DSP-2, DSP-4, ST-010 and OBC1.
· Added UPS support.
· Fixed DSP-4 AI problem.
· Fixed invalid memory accesses in C4 and OBC1 codes.
· Fixed invalid memory accesses in BSX codes. My mistake.
· Fixed the read value of $213e, $4210 and $4211.
· Fixed the writing of word values at the memory boundary.
· Fixed the bug that the unnecessary SA-1 emulation continues once any SA-1 games are launched.
· Removed old color blending codes.
· Removed too-old Snes96 and ZSNES snapshot support.
· Updated command-line options.
· Code cleaning.
· GTK+ : Added a port of Snes9x to the GTK+ toolkit.
· Unix : Reconstructed and simplified all the contents. Some features have been removed to be simple, and many options have changed. GTK+ port is recommended for most of Linux users.
· Fixed corrupted screenshot on Intel Mac.
· Fixed sudden abort in QuickTime movie export on Intel Mac.
· Changed sound settings for the new APU core.
· Changed the default folder which Snes9x looks for to 'Application Support' folder.
· Changed folder names: 'IPSs' -> 'Patches', 'BIOSs' -> 'BIOSes'.
· Added Blargg's ntsc filter.
· Internal changes for Leopard and Snow Leopard.