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Super ZSNES - GPU Powered SNES emulation is here!

Big news for modders and fans of old school games. The original ZSNES emulator is getting an update/sequel after all these years. I'm feeling hyped.

#zsnes #super zsnes #emulation #super nintendo #snes #modding #Youtube

Hey Tumblr! I have another request to help me answer a question Google isn’t helping with:

So when I was younger- like middle school age at the latest, like 15+ years ago- I had a ZSNES emulator packed with games courtesy of my dad, one of which was APPARENTLY Sonic the Hedgehog. But, unbeknownst to me until several years later, it was not the actual Sonic the Hedgehog for the Sega Genesis.

I did not play a Green Hill Zone or a Chemical Plant Zone or anything, the first and only level I could get through was a dim, barren forest in dark browns and purples, full of deadly pits and not a ton of vertical platforming. There was also the occasional wooden structure like a tree stump or a ruined shack, I think? Think Twilight Town/Creepy Steeple Path from Paper Mario TTYD but like WAY duller.

For years I thought that was what Sonic was supposed to be and brushed off the franchise, only for proper exposure to smack me in the face as a special interest years later. Trying to look up anything about that version today just leads me to generic Sonic.EXE content, which this definitely was not. It was never full horror, just a spooky background and a hard level. So does anyone out there know what the hell I’m talking about? Can anyone provide an answer to my decades-long confusion??

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic the hedgehog emulator #sonic emulator #zsnes #lost media #hunt for lost media #help me please #this damn level is haunting me #was it some shitty snes port that nintendo made to make sega look bad??#was it a crappy fanproject someone tossed on an emulation site??#was it actually a niche .exe title I was just really bad at??#the world may never know

Seeing ZSNES make a comeback via Super ZSNES makes a tear come to my eye, just because I remember downloading and playing a few SNES games back in 2006 for the first time... (albeit, it was more that I wanted to play ROM hacks that you could NOT play on the SNES so easily back in the 2000's...) so yeah, seeing the emulator that introduced me to emulation 20 years ago... and also seeing that is over half my age ago too...

It may be the nostalgia, but considering the original developers are behind it too (not a project to recreate someone else's work for fame using the original's name, but the original developer coming back to recreate that good feeling?) this is something that really does feel like a new era of SNES emulation could really come out from this, especially with the whole "HD AND MORE editor" for allowing edits to old games... so fan old classics could get that "HD remaster" that people believe deserve, via how this will actually work. (As looking into it briefly... SNES either DOES NOT have texture packs STILL due to how difficult it is... or it was "being looked into" but nothing concrete... so this actually is the push into something NEW for SNES emulation as well...!)

Like, going to the emulation wiki and seeing THIS for SNES texture packs... (when SNES emulation has been around for like, 30+ years)

... it's actually crazy that this has not been looked into yet, considering how many people have wanted an HD remaster for certain games, Chrono Trigger being the BIG one (which a video showing off the emulator shows that there IS work being done for a Chrono Trigger HD pack)

I think the only thing REALLY missing that hopefully gets added in the future (that has made me want to revisit a lot of older games) is the connection to the Retro Achievements website, as SNES9x I believe has that function (and I know Retroarch does too) but obviously with Super ZSNES still being a WIP, it's not top priority for it right now... but imagine playing games with an HD remaster, feeling like a new, but familiar experience, while trying to 100% achievements for it, just because it is your absolute favorite game. Don't need to use it if you don't want to (since it DOES require a login) but for those that do want to have that "these days" experience while enjoying "those days with a fresh coat of paint" experience... it feels like the only thing missing.

#ZSNES #Emulation #Super ZSNES #Can't wait to see where this project goes