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Legendary emulator ZSNES rewritten from scratch

Rob Beschizza
Apr 27, 2026
∙ Paid

Widecreen Salamander

My first experience of emulation was ZSNES in the late 1990s, letting me return to what then seemed like ancient history: the early 1990s. I could finally finish Secret of Mana! And I did. It was magical to learn that the new thing could pretend to be the old thing, even if it didn’t run so well on my Pentium 133. Thirty years (!) ha…

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