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Nintendo - SNES / Famicom (Snes9x 2002)

Background

Port of SNES9x 1.39 for libretro (was previously called PocketSNES). Heavily optimized for ARM.

Provides more favorable performance thresholds at the cost of accuracy. DO NOT use this core unless you have underpowered hardware and the mainline Snes9x core and the bsnes/higan/bsnes-mercury cores aren't fast enough

This core is part of a group of Snes9x cores that are snapshots from the year their code is based on. (Snes9x 2002, Snes9x 2005, Snes9x 2005 Plus, Snes9x 2010)

Author/License

The Snes9x 2002 core has been authored by

  • Snes9x Team
  • PocketSNES Team
  • Toadking

The Snes9x 2002 core is licensed under

A summary of the licenses behind RetroArch and its cores can be found here.

Extensions

Content that can be loaded by the Snes9x 2002 core have the following file extensions:

  • .smc
  • .fig
  • .sfc
  • .gd3
  • .gd7
  • .dx2
  • .bsx
  • .swc

Databases

RetroArch database(s) that are associated with the Snes9x 2002 core:

Features

Frontend-level settings or features that the Snes9x 2002 core respects.

Feature Supported
Restart ✔
Screenshots ✔
Saves ✔
States ✔
Rewind ✔
Netplay ✔
Core Options ✔
RetroAchievements ✔
RetroArch Cheats ✔
Native Cheats ✔
Controls ✔
Remapping ✕
Multi-Mouse ✕
Rumble ✕
Sensors ✕
Camera ✕
Location ✕
Subsystem ✕
Softpatching ✔
Disk Control ✕
Username ✕
Language ✕
Crop Overscan ✔
LEDs ✕

Directories

The Snes9x 2002 core's internal core name is 'Snes9x 2002'

The Snes9x 2002 core saves/loads to/from these directories.

Frontend's Save directory

  • 'content-name'.srm (Cartridge battery save)

Frontend's State directory

  • 'content-name'.state# (State)

Geometry and timing

  • The Snes9x 2002 core's core provided FPS is 59.9227434043 for NTSC games and 50.3197396536 for PAL games.
  • The Snes9x 2002 core's core provided sample rate is 32040 Hz
  • The Snes9x 2002 core's core provided base width is 256
  • The Snes9x 2002 core's core provided base height is 224
  • The Snes9x 2002 core's core provided max width is 512
  • The Snes9x 2002 core's core provided max height is 512
  • The Snes9x 2002 core's core provided aspect ratio is 4/3

Core options

The Snes9x 2002 core has the following option(s) that can be tweaked from the core options menu. The default setting is bolded.

Settings with (Restart) means that core has to be closed for the new setting to be applied on next launch.

  • Reduce Slowdown (Hack, Unsafe, Restart) [snes9x2002_overclock_cycles] (disabled|compatible|max)

    Many games for the SNES suffered from slowdown due to the weak main CPU. This option helps allievate that at the cost of possible bugs.

    Example video here

    compatible: Reduce slowdown but keep as much game compatibility as much as possible.

    max: Reduce slowdown as much as possible but will break more games.

Controllers

The Snes9x 2002 core supports the following device type(s) in the controls menu, bolded device types are the default for the specified user(s):

User 1 - 2 device types

  • None - Doesn't disable input. There's no reason to switch to this.
  • **RetroPad - Joypad - Stay on this.
  • RetroPad w/Analog - Joypad - Same as RetroPad. There's no reason to switch to this.

Controller tables

Joypad

RetroPad Inputs Snes9x 2002 core Inputs
B
Y
Select
Start
D-Pad Up
D-Pad Down
D-Pad Left
D-Pad Right
A
X
L
R

Compatibility

Awaiting description.

See also

Nintendo - Sufami Turbo

Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System (+ Hacks)