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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Mark Tyson

Legendary ZSNES Nintendo emulator rewritten from scratch with GPU-acceleration, no vibe coding — new Super ZSNES has ‘far more accurate CPU and audio cores than the original’

Some Super ZSNES screenshots.

ZSNES is a legendary Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator with its roots stretching back to the DOS era. Created by zsKnight and Demo, the last major release of this seminal hand-tuned, assembly-coded emulator was nearly two decades ago. It has been reborn this week as Super ZSNES with “super enhancements” powered by your system’s GPU. Rewritten from scratch by the aforementioned dynamic duo, Super ZSNES now boasts “far more accurate CPU and audio cores than the original ZSNES,” as well as a “GPU-powered PPU core.”

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