Emulators: SNES

Information

  • Author: loopy / FluBBa

Pros

  • A stunning achievement
  • Some games are fully playable

Cons

  • Several graphics modes not emulated
  • Many games not compatible

Links

Downloads

SNESAdvance

This emulator's amazing feat is emulating the SNES on the GBA. Yes, it was thought to be nearly impossible, but no one saw loopy's work coming. This is an excellent release, and the emulator's speed is impressive on the games that work.

The emulator partially emulates graphic mode 1, which leave seven other common modes unemulated. In the future, they may be implemented, but for now this emulator still works with many games.

FluBBa has picked up loopy's work and run with it, adding support for more games and improving others.

sephiroth2k, maintainer of the wonderful superdat, has coded a tool that converts Game Genie codes to SNESAdvance patches (for use in snesadvance.dat). He coded it in about two hours, so he warns that it may have bugs. It also has a feature where you plug in the hex of a 65816 opcode and it will give you the mnemonic and details about that op. For this feature to work, the two included text files must be in the same directory as the program. Game Genie Thing is available from the links section to the right.

The graphics modification tools allow for the changing of the background graphics and font in the ROM selection menu. The directions for use are in the archive. To use an alternate SNESAdvance.bin file, place it in the same directory as your SNESAdvance.exe files.

Here's the formula for scaling, which you can play around with to make games more playable:

scroll position = (sprite position) * scale% + offset

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SPC Emulator

Screen grab

This is a work-in-progress Super Nintendo sound chip (SPC) emulator that uses dynamic recompilation. Its ultimate goal is inclusion into SNESAdvance. Currently it plays only a few songs, but it's still under development, so that's sure to change.

The Microsoft .NET framework 1.1 must be installed to run the rom builder.

A good place to download SPC music files is Zophar's Domain.

Keys for the menu system:
Up/Down: move the current selection. The name on the top is the SPC that will be played.
A: start the current selection playing
B: stop the SPC and go back to the menu system