Here's some good news to start your week: the two original developers of ZSNES have introduced SUPER ZSNES, a new edition of the legendary SNES emulator. It has been completely rewritten from the ground up and is powered by the GPU, unlike the original version and many other emulators.

SUPER ZSNES is explicitly stated not to be vibe-coded. It includes features such as fast forward, rewind, save states, auto-save history, save bookmarks, cheat codes, quick load, and more. It also brings back the classic UI, redesigned in a modernized form, introduces enhanced visuals, better audio, and optimizations for modern hardware.

The big focus is enhancements tailored to individual games, though only seven are supported right now, with more on the way in future releases. You can upgrade graphics to HD without distortion, reduce slowdown with overclocking in select games, enable widescreen where supported, enhance audio, and tweak a range of settings to fully customize the experience to your liking.

SUPER ZSNES is still an early build, so there are known bugs, and special chips like DSP1 and SuperFX haven't been implemented yet. Versions are available to download for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android.

Learn more and get SUPER ZSNES here. If you're into retro games, don't miss a classic Tomb Raider game reimagined as a side-scroller this May:

We also recently shared an article by an ex-Lead Senior 3D Programmer at Ubisoft on the rendering technology used in Tomb Raider III. You might also want to know how a developer built a custom open-world game engine for the Nintendo 64, managing to achieve a Skyrim-scale world on real N64 hardware.

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