Zsnes

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Development of ZSNES began on July 3, 1997 and the first version was released on October 14, 1997 for MS-DOS. Since then, official ports have been made for Windows and Linux. The emulator became open source under GPL licensure on April 2, 2001. In March of 2006, the source repository was moved from SourceForge.net to BountySource.

ZSNES is still being actively developed despite the departure of its original developers “zsKnight” and “_Demo_”. It is notable in that it was among the first to emulate most SNES enhancement chips at some level, with the exception of the SPC7110.

Features
Aside from emulating much of the system’s internal and external hardware to obtain a high compatibility rate with games, ZSNES has many notable features as of the current version:

  • Video scale adjustment
  • Video filters
  • Video synchronization
  • Windowed and fullscreen display modes
  • Rewinding and fast-forwarding of gameplay
  • Movie recording in ZMV format
  • Music ripping in SPC format
  • State saving and loading in ZST format
  • Patch application (temporary) in IPS format
  • Cheat code creation, modification, and application in CHT format

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