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Their home page is underselling how cool this is: MVG did a great overview of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5twUkvYFpA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r

Their home page is underselling how cool this is: MVG did a great overview of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5twUkvYFpA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5twUkvYFpA

AdmiralAsshat 5mo ago
It's understandable that they went in this direction. Higan/bsnes has already captured the market for "accuracy" on the SNES emulator front, so this is more going off and doing its own thing rather than re-treading familiar ground. I suppose my only concern is what it will do to the hardware requirements, since ZSNES' original claim to fame was how well it was able to run on limited hardware, even if it had to do a bunch of clever hacks to get there.
- snvzz 5mo ago
  Or, thanks to bsnes/higan/ares[0], SFC accuracy is solved, thus it should be much easier for any new emulator to be accurate. i.e. accuracy should be the baseline; I understand Super ZSNES is not there yet. 0. https://ares-emu.net/ https://ares-emu.net/
  - pezezin 5mo ago
    Ares is a seriously underrated emulator. I don't use it much now that I have a MiSTer, but it is by far my favourite emulator on desktop.
  - rincebrain 5mo ago
    Kind of? Accuracy is valuable, but as illustrated by the early days of people using buggy emulators for SNES games on phones and the DS/3DS, people will tolerate buggy but running on their hardware over correct but unplayable.
- PokemonNoGo 5mo ago
  I remember reading, back then, about the author byuu/Near going into future updates such as HD Mode7 and widescreen. Found it re-hosted on an odd site here: [1] It does seem like Super ZSNES in ways picked up these ideas (and torch) and went with them! Rather neat actually! RIP Near. [1] https://bsnes.org/articles/state-of-emulation-5 https://bsnes.org/articles/state-of-emulation-5
adzm 5mo ago
The widescreen mode is surprisingly functional, wow
micheljansen 5mo ago
Impressive, but oh man, the transition from the original ZSNES User Interface from my childhood to the UI of Super ZSNES was jarring to say the least. Nostalgia is powerful: https://imgur.com/a/R63BKTe https://imgur.com/a/R63BKTe
- NuclearPM 5mo ago
  Nesticle is a nostalgia bomb for me.
  - xantronix 5mo ago
    I felt like the coolest fucking kid on the block for having that icon on my desktop.
  - rincebrain 5mo ago
    You may enjoy this[1] article about its history and where the dev wound up. [1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20180329033107/https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9a48z3/the-story-of-nesticle-the-ambitious-emulator-that-redefined-retro-gaming https://web.archive.org/web/20180329033107/https://motherboa...
- poolnoodle 5mo ago
  The original is timeless and way more beautiful in my opinion.
- zerocrates 5mo ago
  Not at least slapping a pixel font on there is an odd choice given the purposeful nostalgia goal.
  - rincebrain 5mo ago
    If you slapped a pixel font in, you'd really want to rework the whole UI to not look jarring with the aliased font you'd most likely use to evoke the nostalgia, and that's a substantial rabbit hole, but also not one you necessarily need to rework the underlying functionality to do, e.g. it's easy to do later if you build it right initially.

Their home page is underselling how cool this is: MVG did a great overview of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5twUkvYFpA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5twUkvYFpA

AdmiralAsshat 5mo ago

It's understandable that they went in this direction. Higan/bsnes has already captured the market for "accuracy" on the SNES emulator front, so this is more going off and doing its own thing rather than re-treading familiar ground. I suppose my only concern is what it will do to the hardware requirements, since ZSNES' original claim to fame was how well it was able to run on limited hardware, even if it had to do a bunch of clever hacks to get there.

snvzz 5mo ago
Or, thanks to bsnes/higan/ares[0], SFC accuracy is solved, thus it should be much easier for any new emulator to be accurate. i.e. accuracy should be the baseline; I understand Super ZSNES is not there yet. 0. https://ares-emu.net/ https://ares-emu.net/
- pezezin 5mo ago
  Ares is a seriously underrated emulator. I don't use it much now that I have a MiSTer, but it is by far my favourite emulator on desktop.
- rincebrain 5mo ago
  Kind of? Accuracy is valuable, but as illustrated by the early days of people using buggy emulators for SNES games on phones and the DS/3DS, people will tolerate buggy but running on their hardware over correct but unplayable.
PokemonNoGo 5mo ago
I remember reading, back then, about the author byuu/Near going into future updates such as HD Mode7 and widescreen. Found it re-hosted on an odd site here: [1] It does seem like Super ZSNES in ways picked up these ideas (and torch) and went with them! Rather neat actually! RIP Near. [1] https://bsnes.org/articles/state-of-emulation-5 https://bsnes.org/articles/state-of-emulation-5

adzm 5mo ago

The widescreen mode is surprisingly functional, wow

micheljansen 5mo ago

Impressive, but oh man, the transition from the original ZSNES User Interface from my childhood to the UI of Super ZSNES was jarring to say the least. Nostalgia is powerful: https://imgur.com/a/R63BKTe https://imgur.com/a/R63BKTe

NuclearPM 5mo ago
Nesticle is a nostalgia bomb for me.
- xantronix 5mo ago
  I felt like the coolest fucking kid on the block for having that icon on my desktop.
- rincebrain 5mo ago
  You may enjoy this[1] article about its history and where the dev wound up. [1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20180329033107/https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9a48z3/the-story-of-nesticle-the-ambitious-emulator-that-redefined-retro-gaming https://web.archive.org/web/20180329033107/https://motherboa...
poolnoodle 5mo ago
The original is timeless and way more beautiful in my opinion.
zerocrates 5mo ago
Not at least slapping a pixel font on there is an odd choice given the purposeful nostalgia goal.
- rincebrain 5mo ago
  If you slapped a pixel font in, you'd really want to rework the whole UI to not look jarring with the aliased font you'd most likely use to evoke the nostalgia, and that's a substantial rabbit hole, but also not one you necessarily need to rework the underlying functionality to do, e.g. it's easy to do later if you build it right initially.