It saves the state directly to the ROM's directory with a tiny footprint. For casual players trying to beat brutally hard classic games, this is a game-changer. With bsnes offering cycle-accuracy and Mesen-S offering debugging tools, why does SNES9x matter?
It is the sound of a community saying: We will not let these games rot on obsolete silicon. snes9x 1.57
They’ve also finally squashed the "secret of mana audio desync" bug—a glitch that would slowly throw the music out of sync with the gameplay after an hour of co-op. That nightmare is over. For the romhacking community, this release is Christmas morning. The MSU-1 support (a custom chip that allows for CD-quality audio and full-motion video in SNES games) has been fully re-architected. It saves the state directly to the ROM's
It won't look exactly like 1991. It will look better. And it will run smoother than it ever did on original hardware. It is the sound of a community saying: