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Also known as Super Famicom
Nintendo's 16-bit console, with Mode 7 scaling and rotation, a Sony-designed sound chip and enhancement chips like the Super FX inside the cartridges.
11 emulators
A multi-system emulator focused on accuracy and preservation, continuing the work of higan. It covers Nintendo, Sega, NEC, SNK and other consoles with a simpler interface.
A multi-system emulator built for tool-assisted speedruns, with frame-perfect input recording, memory tools and Lua scripting across dozens of cores.
A SNES emulator originally by Near, built on the cycle-accurate cores that set the bar for SNES accuracy and now maintained by the community. Adds run-ahead, rewind, HD Mode 7 and Super Game Boy emulation via SameBoy.
An arcade emulator continuing FinalBurn and FinalBurn Alpha, covering boards such as Capcom CPS-1/2/3, Neo Geo and many Sega, Konami and Toaplan systems, plus a set of consoles and home computers. It is the main emulator behind Fightcade's online play.
Near's accuracy-first multi-system emulator, which grew out of bsnes. It now only gets occasional maintenance commits; development of its cores continues in ares.
The Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, a long-running project to document and preserve arcade hardware that covers thousands of boards and, since absorbing MESS, many computers and consoles as well.
A command-line multi-system emulator whose PlayStation, Saturn and PC Engine modules aim for high accuracy. It also covers Nintendo and Sega consoles and handhelds, the Atari Lynx, Virtual Boy and Apple II.
A multi-system emulator best known for its accurate NES core and deep debugging tools, also covering SNES, Game Boy, GBA, PC Engine, SMS/Game Gear and WonderSwan. Sour's repository is now an archive of version 2.1.1 (mid-2025); development continues as Mesen CE.
The community-maintained continuation of Mesen, run by the NESdev community, with the same multi-system cores and debugging tools.
A fast, portable SNES emulator that has been developed since the 1990s. Lighter on hardware than cycle-accurate emulators and widely ported.
The SNES emulator that defined late-90s emulation, written largely in x86 assembly and known for its distinctive interface and early netplay. Long discontinued and inaccurate by today's standards.
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Mini consoles and FPGA hardware that play SNES software. About hardware
An FPGA board designed by Till Harbaum to re-create the Amiga and Atari ST, later joined by many 8-bit computer, console and arcade cores. It loads software from an SD card and has analog video output.
Photo: Evan-Amos · Public domain · source
A cartridge console from Hyperkin with slots for NES, Famicom, SNES, Super Famicom, Mega Drive and Game Boy cartridges, which it plays in software emulation over 720p HDMI, with save states and cheats.
Photo: Solomon203 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Nintendo's miniature Super Famicom for Japan with 21 built-in games, including the previously unreleased Star Fox 2, and two full-size controllers.
Photo: Uwe Reuter · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Nintendo's miniature SNES with 21 built-in games, including the previously unreleased Star Fox 2. Sold as the Super NES Classic Edition in North America.
Photo: sorgelig, MiSTer project (DE10-Nano with the MiSTer SDRAM and I/O boards) · GPL-3.0 (project repository) · source
The Intel Cyclone V SoC development board that the MiSTer project is built on. Most MiSTer cores also need an add-on SDRAM board, and analog video needs an I/O board.
Photo: StroggPicker · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
An FPGA console for SNES and Super Famicom cartridges with HDMI output up to 1080p. Analogue announced the Super Nt+ as its successor in 2026.
A low-cost MiST-compatible FPGA board designed by Manuel Fernández Higueras, with a Cyclone IV FPGA, USB ports for controllers and VGA output. MiST cores are resynthesised for it.
A modular console that installs games from original discs and cartridges and runs them in software emulation. The base unit reads CD-based games; Element Modules, sold separately, add NES, SNES, Mega Drive, N64 and other cartridge slots.
A low-cost FPGA board from Retro Remake that is compatible with the DE10-Nano used by the MiSTer project. It is sold in production batches, bundled with SDRAM and, in larger packs, an analog I/O board and USB hub.
The successor to the SiDi, a MiST-family FPGA board with a larger Cyclone 10 LP FPGA and two SDRAM chips, adding HDMI, optical audio and joystick ports.
A ready-built console from Heber that runs the open-source MiSTer FPGA project, with 128 MB SDRAM on board so it plays all standard MiSTer cores. The Analogue model adds RGB and VGA outputs and a cartridge expansion slot.
A MiSTer-compatible FPGA console from Retro Remake styled after the PSone, with ports for original PlayStation controllers and memory cards. It runs the MiSTer cores for other consoles and computers too.
Analogue's successor to the Super Nt: an FPGA console for SNES and Super Famicom cartridges with HDMI output up to 1080p and Bluetooth for wireless controllers. Analog video needs a separate DAC.
Hardware re-creations for FPGA boards such as MiSTer. What's an FPGA core?
| Format | What it is |
|---|---|
.sfc | Cartridge image |
.smc | Cartridge image with copier header |
.bs | Satellaview image |
.spc | SNES music file |
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