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In the early days, Super Nintendo Emulation was inaccurate and required a fast Pentium II PC to run at full speeds with sound, but in 1997 everything changed with the released on ZSNES, a blazingly fast SNES emulator written entirely in x86 assembly language that ran even on a 486 PC with playable speeds. While other emulators existed, ZSNES brought emulation to the masses with its UI and features. In this episode we take a closer look at how ZSNES pioneered modern emulation and played a significant role in advancing emulation technology during its time.
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It's the UI for me, it made me feel like a hacker at 11 years old. :olol: I desperately wanted it on our 68k Macintosh but had to settle for SNES9X when we upgraded to a G3 iMac.
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Hawq wrote: Thu Jul 31, 2025 4:47 am
Xenia manager is great. I'm still holding onto hope that they'll get the Forza games working online :ocry:
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Skynet wrote: Thu Jul 31, 2025 8:38 pm
Hawq wrote: Thu Jul 31, 2025 4:47 am
Xenia manager is great. I'm still holding onto hope that they'll get the Forza games working online :ocry:
Yeah, we need koinigsegegegeggggg races again, and Forza is the only place it's proper!

I've got a bunch of 360's out at the moment having some fun. Would be nice if emulation is in a good place by the time all 3 Red Ring :guffaw:
(Arcade is PRE HDMI, should have Red Ringed 18 years ago)
(PRO is HDMI, SHOULD HAVE Red Ringed 10 years ago)
(Superslim, do the superslims even red ring?)
Hugh Man!
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Have these smoothing filters ever made any sense?

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