Talk:ZSNES

Removed 'accurate' description...

I removed the 'accurate' description because it just isn't...accurate. Please don't be a 'tard and revert this change because Zsnes is notoriously known (in it's current form at least) to be one of the most *inaccurate* emulator around. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.185.86.136 (talk • contribs) 07:28, 10 March 2006

Don't mean to butt in here but notorious? We are making strives to move away from an opcode core to a cycle core. If you want bad code look at SNESGT or snes9x's 200+ hacks. We have maybe 20 in our source with our "inaccurate" code. -- pagefault —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.71.46.226 (talk • contribs) 00:04, 11 January 2007

Please do not refer to other contributors as "'tard"s just because they modify the article. Be polite. Also, it would be very helpful if you could cite the source of the "inaccurate emulator" claim. --ElTchanggo 20:47, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Allright sorry for the language abuse. First, when I said "one of the most *inaccurate* emulator around" I'm was strickly refering to Snes emulation and not general console/arcade/computer emulation.

Now as for sources, well,one way to see for yourself is to just examine Zsnes's source code. Now if you're not a programmer that probably won't help too much. But if you follow actual programmers's discussion on whatever (X) program you can get a good idea about how said program operates and their opinion of it.

Here's a link to a discussion thread on the official Mame forum:

Which discuss how Zsnes doesn't actually cycle-count either of the CPUs,meaning more or less it doesn't truly syncronize the various components of the Snes.

http://www.mame.net/cgi-bin/wwwthreads/showpost.pl?Board=mamegeneral&Number=190565&page=1&view=expanded&mode=threaded&sb=7#Post190565

(Hope posting this link was not against the rules or anything) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.194.103.61 (talk • contribs)

No, it isn't against the rules - in fact, it's encouraged. Relevant links (like the one you posted) are always useful. --ElTchanggo 17:24, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Again we are not the only emulator to do this, so don't flame us, you have a lot of people to flame as well. -- pagefault —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.71.46.226 (talk • contribs) 00:06, 11 January 2007

SNES Test Cartridge ROM

somebody might mention something in the article about how ZSNES is able to pass all the tests in Nintendo's SNES Test Cartridge ROM except the actual equipment test - and I understand they're working on that one - quite a feat for an emulator. --Nerd42 14:19, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

hq2/3/4x interpolation

The fact that ZSNES was, afaik, the first emulator to incorporate hq2/3/4x interpolation might also be worthy of mention in this article. Of course, it'd be nice if a link corroberating this could be provided, as well.

Also, it seems like hq2/3/4x might deserve its own article.. TerraFrost 07:19, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

I would like to mention that ZSNES wasn't just the first emulator to use HQ2/3/4x, but the HQ filter line was created specifically for ZSNES (the Windows version of ZSNES anyway). The author later on released code that could be dropped into other emulators. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.0.170.147 (talk • contribs) .

hmmm. What was the first emulator to incorpoate hq2/3/4x? TerraFrost 01:13, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

...ZSNES wasn't just the first... --Snarius 02:23, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Err... didn't see the just part, heh. TerraFrost 02:50, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

1.50 does not pass all tests. 1.60 will have a cycle based core and it will pass all the tests along with tests byuu from bsnes has sent me to acid proof it. -- pagefault —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.71.46.226 (talk • contribs) 00:07, 11 January 2007

Citations needed.

Will some expert kindly provide sources for the sentences quoted below, so that I can reach my goal of paring down the Citation Needed references on the following page? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Articles_with_unsourced_statements&from=Z

SNES has historically been regarded as the most advanced SNES console emulator available; the emulator has pioneered software emulation of the system since originally released.[citation needed]

Today, ZSNES is considered to have the widest support for specialized SNES hardware, and is one of the most popular SNES emulators.[citation needed]

Sincerely, GeorgeLouis 06:20, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Open Source is not Free Software (well not exactly)

The terms Free Software and Open Source have differences;free software definition can be seen in the Free Software Fundation [1]. So I made a minor change in the History: "Since becoming open source, ZSNES has received" to "Since becoming free software, ZSNES has received ", as the article says, ZSNES is now copyrighted under the GPL, this makes it free software and not just open source. There are discussions about both terms and a lot of names suggested, but we need to be clear on what kind of software or articles we are referring to on our contributions, I consider this important and that's why I made this comment. Darolu (talk) 07:43, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

ZSNES has always been *free* software, now it's open source as well. Your change makes it worse. Helping to spread around GNU or OSI redefinitions makes a worse article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.132.42.101 (talk) 22:19, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Easter Eggs

Haha. ZSNES has over 30 easter eggs in it now, yet only one is listed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.139.47.46 (talk) 22:33, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Another thing. ZSNES April First messages doesn't have false facts, but are in fact references to inside jokes of the ZSNES community. 89.139.47.46 (talk) 22:35, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

The April 1st messages also list how to access every easer egg, if you can understand it of course. 89.139.47.46 (talk) 22:38, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

NPOV and clean-up

Just noting some changes I made to the article. The article makes a few unreferenced claims, and some of these claims cite references that fail WP:WEB or have nothing to do with said claims. Aside from only removing a couple of these, I just placed a few cite tags where needed.

Looking at the article's history, I would guess it is maintained heavily by the project's authors. While that's fine, keep in mind that these type of articles are highly prone to fancruft. If you aren't careful about keeping references strictly in-line, then it's very likely the article will fail at AfD nomination, which is a very distinct possibility with anything related to personal projects. Just a professional reminder. 74.242.121.147 (talk) 22:43, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

The ZSNES developers have mentioned on their forum more than once that they dislike Wikipedia, I doubt they maintain the article here. 85.250.231.180 (talk) 17:38, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

ZSNES for Mac OS X entry?

ZSNES is also available for Mac OS X as well. http://sites.google.com/site/hectorchu/ Should this be mentioned? ThePenciler (talk) 08:46, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Discontinued or not?

Concerning the recent edit war, it's not reasonable - and even outrageous - to expect an official abandonment announcement. This contradicts the very meaning of abandonment. No updates in almost 4 years is enough statement. Besides, if somewhere in the future a new version does arrive, the status can easily be reverted to active (and re-reverted later if the new version is again followed by years of no activity). -109.66.203.215 (talk) 11:43, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

NES support

Probably worth mentioning ZSNES does not support NES. I bet most people would think a SNES emulator would also support NES games, so it would be useful to be explicit about it.--82.155.66.167 (talk) 17:47, 20 June 2011 (UTC)