NewAgeRetroHippie
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Silly similar acronyms aside - as a longtime lurker of the site, I registered today to ask what I feel is an important question:
Now that bsnes literally emulates every single game that was ever commercially available for the Super Nintendo with its recent update - thereby completely blowing ZSNES out of the water - are you going to update the descriptions on the download pages? Byuu seriously deserves a lot of credit (along with the others who put so much time into developing the software) for creating what is probably the most accurate emulator for any console ever, and by far more accurate than any of the other Super Nintendo emulators. While the download page for bsnes does link to the latest version, the image shows a decrepit version of the software and the description leaves a potential adopter completely clueless as to what it offers over other downloads. Considering the ZSNES page gloriously sings its praises, I feel there's a need for a bit of an update.
The lovely message above informs me that I cannot post links without being flagged as a potential spambot, but I trust you all can Google 'Byuu' and 'bsnes' to verify what I've said here. Do note that you need a few extra rom files for certain games (the only generally known one being Super Mario Kart) to allow for proper emulation. I would link to those as well for simplicity's sake, but alas. I cannot.
Also, I would like to stress that I don't have a vendetta against ZSNES or anything; I've been using it for years, but Byuu's emulator has completely blown me away and has set a huge milestone in video game emulation in general. Please consider my request. Thanks. :happy:
P.S.: It is also probably worth noting on the page that the 32-bit version of bsnes is designed as a more system-compatible version of the emulator, which takes a few light shortcuts so that most PCs can run the games at 60 fps, while the 64-bit version is meant for 100% perfectly accurate emulation, regardless of how much processing power it takes. bsnes does take quite a lot to run, unfortunately, so it's no program for those with older PCs, but it's completely worth it otherwise. You can download both, but the 32-bit one is the most important. This is all stuff that should be explained on the program's respective download page.
Now that bsnes literally emulates every single game that was ever commercially available for the Super Nintendo with its recent update - thereby completely blowing ZSNES out of the water - are you going to update the descriptions on the download pages? Byuu seriously deserves a lot of credit (along with the others who put so much time into developing the software) for creating what is probably the most accurate emulator for any console ever, and by far more accurate than any of the other Super Nintendo emulators. While the download page for bsnes does link to the latest version, the image shows a decrepit version of the software and the description leaves a potential adopter completely clueless as to what it offers over other downloads. Considering the ZSNES page gloriously sings its praises, I feel there's a need for a bit of an update.
The lovely message above informs me that I cannot post links without being flagged as a potential spambot, but I trust you all can Google 'Byuu' and 'bsnes' to verify what I've said here. Do note that you need a few extra rom files for certain games (the only generally known one being Super Mario Kart) to allow for proper emulation. I would link to those as well for simplicity's sake, but alas. I cannot.
Also, I would like to stress that I don't have a vendetta against ZSNES or anything; I've been using it for years, but Byuu's emulator has completely blown me away and has set a huge milestone in video game emulation in general. Please consider my request. Thanks. :happy:
P.S.: It is also probably worth noting on the page that the 32-bit version of bsnes is designed as a more system-compatible version of the emulator, which takes a few light shortcuts so that most PCs can run the games at 60 fps, while the 64-bit version is meant for 100% perfectly accurate emulation, regardless of how much processing power it takes. bsnes does take quite a lot to run, unfortunately, so it's no program for those with older PCs, but it's completely worth it otherwise. You can download both, but the 32-bit one is the most important. This is all stuff that should be explained on the program's respective download page.
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