It's has been 10 years since the last ZSNES release...

[hobbledehoy899]

Why are people (potentially you the reader) still using it, what with its DOS-era pseudo-window GUI and low emulation accuracy?

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[The Catboy]

It's been 10 years since I last used that zsnes.

 

[BlueFox gui]

Emulators made more of my childhood than consoles

 

[Heran Bago]

I'm not.

Really though:
- It has a very low memory footprint. Especially compared to high accuracy emulators like bsnes/higgan.
- Many people are just used to it and now.
- It works for >90% of basic use cases.
- Emulator names have sticking power. See Gens and PJ64 where there are better alternatives.
- People who actually care about anything that makes ZSNES a worse emulator have switched long ago. The remaining people just want to play a popular ROM sometimes and don't care about transparency in Speedy Gonzales or CD audio in LttP.

 

[hobbledehoy899]

Emulators made more of my childhood than consoles

But why ZSNES?

 

[nitrostemp]

lol more like dosnes

 

[Heran Bago]

Emulators made more of my childhood than consoles

Considering how bad Brazil gets it for consoles releases, yeah.

I hadn't considered nostalgia as something in ZSNES's favor but there you go.

 

[BlueFox gui]

But why ZSNES?

i used zsnes a little bit, in the most of time of my life i used snes9x (i still have the old version that i used when i was a child XD)
and i used emulators like GENS

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Considering how bad Brazil gets it for consoles releases, yeah.

I hadn't considered nostalgia as something in ZSNES's favor but there you go.

sometimes of my life i got some console like snes and mega drive, but most part of time it was on emulators

 

[Mikemk]

I usually use higan.
But, I do note that zsnes is the recommended emulator on a certain popular rom site, and that likely contributes to its popularity.

 

[naddel81]

I'm not.

Really though:
- It has a very low memory footprint. Especially compared to high accuracy emulators like bsnes/higgan.
- Many people are just used to it and now.
- It works for >90% of basic use cases.
- Emulator names have sticking power. See Gens and PJ64 where there are better alternatives.
- People who actually care about anything that makes ZSNES a worse emulator have switched long ago. The remaining people just want to play a popular ROM sometimes and don't care about transparency in Speedy Gonzales or CD audio in LttP.

a PJ64 alternative? PJ64 had the best compatability the last time I tested banjo tooie and such. most other emulators had issues with those games. it is still the best rated emulator here with 73144 Votes:

http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/n64/

so?

 

[Heran Bago]

a PJ64 alternative? PJ64 had the best compatability the last time I tested banjo tooie and such. most other emulators had issues with those games. it is still the best rated emulator here with 73144 Votes:

http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/n64/

so?

This very site lists ZSNES as the best rated emulator.

I thought mupen64plus was the de facto now?

 

[hobbledehoy899]

This very site lists ZSNES as the best rated emulator.

SMW Central would disagree with that rating.

 

[godreborn]

the only issue I've had with zsnes is that I can't seem to exit the emulator with esc unless I go into task manager to exit first. what's the recommended emulator nowadays? I'm still using zsnes actually.

 

[PoppaDre]

I don't think I've ever. I want to get an SD2SNES doe

 

[Heran Bago]

the only issue I've had with zsnes is that I can't seem to exit the emulator with esc unless I go into task manager to exit first. what's the recommended emulator nowadays? I'm still using zsnes actually.

Higgan

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

I like its retro look and the games work and a few months ago, I played SNES roms with my Pokkén controller and it was pretty nostalgic. Almost identical to the SNES controller.

 

[hobbledehoy899]

the only issue I've had with zsnes is that I can't seem to exit the emulator with esc unless I go into task manager to exit first. what's the recommended emulator nowadays? I'm still using zsnes actually.

For general playing I'd use Snes9x.

 

[godreborn]

I've played snes9x which is the basis for a lot of emulators on consoles. higgan - I haven't heard of that one.

 

[Pacheko17]

I used ZSNES for years and then switched to snes9x.
But I just love the goddamn ZSNES interface, it brings back memories :^)

 

[naddel81]

This very site lists ZSNES as the best rated emulator.

I thought mupen64plus was the de facto now?

the GUI version is outdated.
https://code.google.com/archive/p/mupen64plus/downloads?page=1

pj64 just got another update and kicks mupen64 by compatibility.