I'm releasing a beta version of bsnes, for the purpose of gathering feedback and ensuring that the first official release of bsnes is as solid as possible.With the exception of dynamic rate control for automatic audio/video sync, and no pack-in video shaders or cheat code database, it is mostly feature complete. However, please do not form a lasting opinion of bsnes based on this beta.

Today I'm announcing the revival of the bsnes project.

This is going to be a standalone SNES emulator, utilizing the higan SNES core, but with a much faster multi-threaded PPU renderer. The performance should hopefully exceed the old bsnes-balanced releases, while being just as accurate.

The bsnes project is also going to focus heavily on ease of use, providing support for direct ROM file loading, automatic gamepad mapping (where possible), soft-patching support, etc.

The goal is to provide all of the recent higan SNES emulation improvements and the SNES preservation project work to a wider audience.