This is simply the best Super Nintendo available. It's ultra fast and should run at full speed on any Celeron or faster PC. It also supports Super Nintendo features which are very hard to emulate (and which were unavailable just a while ago), like DSP1 emulation (Mario Kart), SuperFX emulation (StarFox) and now even C4 emulation (Megaman X3)! These features make ZSNES the most compatible Super Nintendo emulator available. The sound is also great as ZSNES allows some special tricks like sound interpolation and a low pass filter. You can get 44khz Stereo sound with ZSNES, but you must have a fast PC for that. Ports of ZSNES are also available for DOS and Linux. Please visit the homepage of ZSNES it you want to download these ports. Note: The Windows version of ZSNES requires at least version 8.0 or higher of Microsoft DirectX!

Download

Snes9x is a great Super Nintendo emulator for which ports are available for many platforms, unlike ZSNES. Though Snes9x also has many of the features of ZSNES, it lacks a bit in compatibility. This doesn't mean it's bad, but there can only be one the best: ZSNES. If however you have a Macintosh or other system which can't run DOS executables you are stuck with Snes9x however ;-) The Macintosh port of Snes9x is available from www.emulation.net. Version 1.30b#1 featured many improvements, including premature NetPlay support (still buggy though according to the author). Also I noticed a significant improvement in the "wind" sound found in the opening of Final Fantasy III (US) after I switched on the Anti Resonance's alternate sample decoding routine feature, which was also new in that release.

Download