ZSNES 1.51 is the best SNES emulator created. It plays games to near perfection and has the ability to play network games, sharpen graphics, and has many friendly user options. I have used this SNES emulator for years and worked well even in 2001. If your looking to play your old time favorite classics, this is the emulator to download.

EmulatorPro Rating: 10/10

Latest Version: 1.51

Website Link: http://www.zsnes.com/

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ZSNES has historically been regarded as the most advanced SNES console emulator available; the emulator has pioneered software emulation of the system since originally released. Aside from emulation accuracy, which is being improved in future versions, many of the additional interface features first introduced in ZSNES have later been adopted in other emulators. Among them are:

• Support for smoothing and dynamic image scaling.
• The ability to take screenshots of currently running games.
• The ability to "save" the game at any point by recording the console's state; commonly referred to as a "savestate".
• The ability to record movies of gameplay which can be played back.
• Support for rewinding and fast-forwarding in-game.
• The ability to record and capture the console's sound output to a file, saving to the SPC700 sound format (.SPC).
• Enhanced audio capabilities, making the SPC700 audio of better quality on ZSNES than on the actual Super Famicom or SNES console.
• Built-in support for Game Genie, Pro Action Replay, and GoldFinger cheat codes.
• Support for the JMA compression format.
• The ability to play multiplayer games with another person over a network. (Feature removed in version 1.5 due to incompatibility with other subsystems; v1.42n is still available for download and supports Netplay but without the improvements found in higher versions)

Today, ZSNES is considered to have the widest support for specialized SNES hardware, and is one of the most popular SNES emulators.[6][7] ZSNES and Snes9x were the first SNES emulators to fully emulate the Super FX, DSP-1, and Cx4 chips. ZSNES also has support for the DSP-4, S-DD1, and ST010 chips. As of version 1.40, the support for running interleaved SuperFX ROM images was removed due to the code implementation being "buggy";[8] the developers instead recommend that such images be "de-interleaved" with the utility NSRT.

ZSNES was originally designed to run on an Intel i486 as fast as possible, so many emulation shortcuts were taken. However, the current developers are working on improving the emulation accuracy.[9][10]

ZSNES was the first emulator to implement the HQ2X interpolation algorithm and the first emulator to offer any sort of support for the DSP-3 chip.[11]

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