The original team behind the beloved ZSNES emulator have returned to release Super ZSNES, an all-new and upgraded version of their emulator.
Super ZSNES is a new Super Nintendo / Super Famicom emulator completely rewritten from scratch to support modern GPUs and features. You can download it here via its official site.
Here’s a rundown on the new emulator, plus the emulator’s reveal livestream:
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 EngineCurrently 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.
